The Canadian Helen Keller Centre (CHKC), the only residential training centre in Canada for deaf-blind persons, presented IBM Canada Ltd. with the 2011 CHKC Award for its commitment to diversity in the workplace.

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RTNDA Canada has recognized excellence in electronic journalism in the Atlantic Region and awarded its RTNDA Canada Awards to the best programs, stations and newsgathering organizations in both radio and television. Winner of this year’s Adrienne Clarkson Award for Diversity was Radio Canada Acadie for Les gais dans les Forces canadiennes: un parcours difficile. This year’s Central Region Adrienne Clarkson Award winners were CP24 for Holocaust Education Week (TV) and CBC Radio One for Turning Point Town Hall (radio). In the BC Region, the winners were CTV British Columbia for Grieving Mother Sculptor (TV) and CBC Radio for New Comers’ Names (radio).

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For the first time the African Canadian Achievement Award of Excellence (ACAA) which normally goes to a parent was presented to an agency: the Black Daddies Club (BDC). The award was accepted by Brandon Hay, founder and executive director of the BDC. The ACAA is one of the highest honours bestowed on African Canadians by their community.

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DiverseCity onBoard has recognized Peel Children’s Aid (non-profit board), The Redwood (small non-profit board) and the Town of Richmond Hill (public board) with its 2010 Diversity in Governance Award for making it a priority to recruit board members from diverse backgrounds. A new corporate award, presented by the Canadian Board Diversity Council, was given to TD Bank Group.

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Black Enterprise magazine assessed diversity leaders in the top 1,000 largest publicly traded companies and 100 major global companies, consulting with diversity professionals, trade associations, and other resources. They selected chief diversity officers, global diversity executives, executive and senior vice presidents and vice presidents who lead diversity initiatives vital to the business objectives of their company. In total, 63 chief diversity officers, 39 global diversity executives, 10 executive or senior vice presidents and 38 vice presidents were named to the list of Top Executives in Diversity.

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Working Mother magazine has honored 23 organizations as Best Companies for Multicultural Women based on their commitment to supporting women of color with strong diversity, leadership and education programs.

http://www.workingmother.com/node/112966/list.

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Beth J. Freemal, a partner in Thompson Hine LLP’s Cincinnati office, is a recipient of the National Diversity Council’s (NDC) 2011 Ohio Glass Ceiling Award, presented annually to recognize and honor women who have achieved personal success and enabled others to more easily follow in their footsteps.

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ADP®, a leading provider of human resource outsourcing, has been honored recently by two organizations. Garden State Equality, an 82,000-member advocate for lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) equal rights, named ADP as one of the 2011 Equality Companies of the Year. ADP was also named for the second time by Diversity MBA Magazine as one of its 50 Out Front Companies for Diversity Leadership: Best Places for Diverse Managers to Work.

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The Hispanic Association on Corporate Responsibility (HACR), a coalition of the nation’s most influential Hispanic community-based organizations, has recognized 7 companies for their long-standing commitment to diversity, inclusion and corporate responsibility in the Hispanic community. This year’s honorees were AT&T, Chrysler, Ford, General Motors, McDonald’s, MillerCoors and Verizon.

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Ten Australian organizations were recognized by Pride In Diversity, the country’s first employer support program for the inclusion of GLBT people in the workplace, as the most gay-friendly employers. IBM took the awards for Employer of the Year, Highest Ranking Private Sector Employer and GLBT Employee Network Group of the Year. The Australian Federal Police was the Highest Ranking Public Sector Employer. The top 10 in ranking order were IBM, the Australian Federal Police, KPMG, Goldman Sachs, Telstra, Accenture and Macquarie University (tied), PriceWaterhouseCoopers, the University of Queensland, and the University of Western Australia and Curtin University (tied).

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Two companies who credited their wins to the diversity of their product lines and their employees walked away with Small Business Awards from the Wichita Metro Chamber of Commerce. J.R. Custom Metal Products won the category for small businesses with 26 to 100 employees and Occidental Management, a real estate development and property management firm, for businesses with one to 25 employees.

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The Department of Psychiatry at Cambridge Health Alliance (CHA) has been named the recipient of the 2010 Harold Amos Faculty Diversity Award presented by Harvard Medical School (HMS). This marks the first time an entire group of faculty has won the award, which recognizes those who have made significant achievements to help HMS become a more diverse and inclusive community.

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PepsiCo recently awarded the 2011 Harvey C. Russell Global Diversity & Inclusion Award to Guiding Eyes for the Blind, a New York State non-profit guide-dog school. The award was named after a former Pepsi-Cola executive who in 1962 became the first African-American vice president of a major international corporation and is given out for exceptional advances in diversity and inclusion.

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Wal-Mart headed this year’s list of the Top 50 Organizations for Multicultural Business Opportunities. The honor extends to another 49 major corporations and is collectively called The Div50. The 11th annual list was produced by DiversityBusiness.com, the nation’s leading multicultural B2B online website.

A complete list of winners is available at www.DiversityBusiness.com/TopBusinessList.

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In recognition of their efforts to reach out, mentor and support disadvantaged students preparing for health careers, 3 individuals will be honored as the 2011 Champions of Health Professions Diversity by The California Wellness Foundation (TCWF) and will each receive a cash award of $25,000. The honorees are Charles Alexander, University of California, Los Angeles, Jose Ramon Fernandez-Pena, City College of San Francisco and San Francisco State University, and John Matsui, University of California, Berkeley.

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Each year technical leaders of Hispanic origin in a variety of sectors such as automotive, finance, defense, energy, retail and pharmaceuticals are selected by the editors of Hispanic Engineer & Information Technology magazine (HE&IT)for excellence in their professional work, strong commitment to their communities and leadership as role models and mentors. The result is HE&IT’s Top 200 Most Influential Hispanics in Technology. For the list, www.hispanicengineer.com.