Walmart foundation gave a $500,000 grant to the Arizona Call-A-Teen Youth Resources Inc. to provide workforce development training and summer jobs to 312 young adults in Phoenix as part of the foundation’s 2012 Summer Youth Employment Initiative.
The grant will provide young adults, 14 to24 years old, training in order to establish career and higher education goals through career planning and work experience.
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Here are the star companies that have succeeded in their corporate social responsibility (CSR) programs. The companies were gathered by Civic 50, a national initiative to survey and rank S&P 500 corporations on how they engage with the communities they serve and utilize best practices in their corporate cultures.