*Federated Dept. Stores is now Macy's
In 1996, the NAACP launched the Economic Reciprocity Initiative (ERI) as a sustained consumer movement to measure corporate America’s financial relationship with the African American community. Over the past eleven years, the ERI has expanded its scope and has continued to highlight on an annual basis the diversity efforts made in a number of leading industries.
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AUTOMOTIVE INDUSTRY
For the purposes of this project, selected companies from the Automotive Industry were invited to participate in the ERI. The criteria used covers domestic companies with revenues of at least $5 billion per year.
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FINANCIAL SERVICES INDUSTRY
For the purposes of this project, selected companies from the Financial Services Industry were invited to participate in the ERI. The criteria used covers companies with revenues of at least $5 billion per year that currently provide full-service, large commercial and branch banking.
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GENERAL MERCHANDISING INDUSTRY
For the purposes of this project, selected companies from the General Merchandising Industry were invited to participate in the ERI. The criteria used companies with revenues of at least $5 billion per year.
*Federated Dept. Stores is now Macy's
Dillard’s has refused to participate for four years.
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LODGING INDUSTRY
For the purposes of this project, selected companies from the Lodging Industry were invited to participate in the ERI. The criteria used covers hotels representing two groups: (1) for-profit companies with 1,500 properties and 200,000 rooms, or more; and (2) for-profit companies with less than 1,500 properties and/or less than 200,000 rooms.
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TELECOMMUNICATIONS INDUSTRY
For the purposes of this project, selected companies from the Telecommunications Industry were invited to participate in the ERI. The criteria used encompass companies with revenues of at least $5 billion per year.
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Report Card pdf »
The NAACP Diversity Best Practice Guide highlights the diversity and inclusion practices of the highest performing companies in each of the categories noted in the ERI. The Best Practices Guide is meant 1) to provide corporate executives, diversity practitioners, and human resource professionals with information to begin a dialogue about diversity and inclusion in corporate America, and 2) to be used as a mechanism to highlight what works as corporations continue to evaluate their current corporate diversity programs.
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