Bank of America awards $300 million for racial equity, opportunity

• Date: 01 November 2020
• DOI: http://doi.org/10.1002/nba.30887
• Published date: 01 November 2020

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employment in violation of Title VII.

The judge ruled the only four specic examples

cited by the plaintiff were the “clock-in” times report

and the statements about “high maintenance,” “too

sexy” and law enforcement women.

She then ruled that a false accusation of misre-

porting clock-in times couldn’t support the plaintiff’s

claim because it wasn’t the kind of misconduct that

could reasonably be inferred as motivated by mem-

bership in a protected class.

Similarly, she ruled that comments about the

plaintiff being high maintenance or dressed “too

sexy” couldn’t reasonably be connected to gender

discrimination.

The judge also held that even if the supervisor’s

alleged statement that women like the plaintiff didn’t

belong in law enforcement reected gender bias, one

remark in an eight-year period was insufcient to

create a hostile work environment.

EMPLOYER WINS ➔ The judge dismissed the

claim, ruling that even if all four of the alleged inci-

dents constituted misconduct that could reasonably

be inferred as motivated by gender bias, those were

simply too few occurrences over eight years to create

a hostile work environment.

[Losada v. Clatsop County, U.S. District Court

for the District of Oregon, No. 3:20-CV-00068,

05/06/20]. ■

News

Feed the Children tops list

of food banks

A new ranking by Food Bank News, a nonprot

information source for the hunger relief sector, shows

that the two largest food banks in the United States,

by revenue, are independent agencies unafliated with

sector giant Feeding America. Per the site’s ranking,

Oklahoma City-based Feed the Children takes the top

spot, with 2019 revenues hitting about $288 million,

followed by Normal, Ill.-based Midwest Food Bank,

which reported $278 million in revenue for the year.

As Food Bank News notes, the Houston Food Bank

is often cited as the nation’s biggest food bank. But

it is actually just the largest of the Feeding America

food banks, which number 200 across the country.

Still, it ranks third overall, with $209 million in rev-

enue reported for 2019.

The rest of the Top 10 are all members of the

Feeding America network: St. Mary’s Food Bank

of Phoenix, Ariz. ($172 million); the Food Bank of

Central & Eastern North Carolina ($167 million);

the Atlanta Community Food Bank ($164 million);

Second Harvest Heartland in Minneapolis-St. Paul

($162 million); the North Texas Food Bank in Plano,

Texas ($145 million); New York City-based City

Harvest ($142 million) and the San Antonio Food

Bank ($139 million.)

According to Food Bank News, the two organiza-

tions at the top of the list have much broader reaches

than the rest—Feeding America afliates typically

focus on specic geographic areas usually within one

state, whereas Feed the Children and the Midwest

Food Bank serve several states and, in the case of

Feed the Children, operate internationally as well.

For more information, visit https://foodbanknews.

org. ■

Bank of America awards $300

million for racial equity, opportunity

Bank of America has announced the rst major

tranche of funding made under its $1 billion, four-

year commitment to advance racial equality and

economic opportunity. In this rst funding cycle, the

company has allocated $300 million to four key areas

across 91 U.S. markets and globally:

• $25 million in initial grant funding in support

of jobs initiatives that will enhance up-skilling and

reskilling for Black and Hispanic/Latino individuals

through partnerships with the following schools;

• $25 million in initial community outreach and

initiatives for underserved and minority communities

that were adversely impacted by the global health and

humanitarian crisis;

• $50 million allocated to direct equity investments

in minority depository institutions, which will facil-

itate benets to the communities they serve through

lending, housing, neighborhood revitalization and

other banking services and

• $200 million allocated to direct equity investments

in minority entrepreneurs, businesses and funds to

help supply growth capital, as well as to invest sub-

stantially in programs to create future entrepreneurs.

For more information, visit https://bit.

ly/3mTlD4U. ■