WHO: NAACP National Board of Directors Chairman Julian Bond; NAACP Interim President & CEO Dennis Courtland Hayes
WHAT: Announcement of annual ‘business report card’ results; release of 2007 edition of the NAACP Consumer Choice Guide and the new Diversity Best Practices Guide, part of the Association’s Economic Reciprocity Initiative (ERI). In 1996, the NAACP launched the ERI as a sustained consumer movement to measure corporate America’s financial relationship with the African American community. Since then, the ERI has expanded its scope and has continued to annually highlight diversity efforts made in lodging, telecommunications, financial services, general merchandising and automotive industries.
WHERE: National Press Club --Lisagor Room; 529 14th St., NW, Washington, D.C. 20045
WHEN: Thursday, Sept. 13 - 1 p.m.
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