Disability inclusion integral to Voya Financial’s advertising 2021 campaign extends Voya’s ongoing commitment and a timely conversation for Developmental Disabilities Awareness Month Voya’s brand advertising programs have consistently promoted diversity, equity and inclusion, reflecting the company’s customers and aligning with its company values. The company’s 2021 ads build on this [...]
Dive Brief: The American Association of People with Disabilities (AAPD) and Disability:IN, a nonprofit organization for advancing business disability inclusion and equality, are advocating for greater inclusion at the board level. The organizations jointly submitted letters to the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) Acting Chair Allison Lee and [...]
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New York State Comptroller Thomas P. DiNapoli and Victor Calise, Commissioner, NYC Mayor's Office for People with Disabilities, joined AAPD and Disability:IN to advocate for "disability" to be included in the Nasdaq's definition of "diverse" for its listing rules. This was prompted by Nasdaq's "Notice of Filing of Proposed [...]
Download PDF version February 2, 2021Allison Lee Acting Chair Securities and Exchange Commission 100 F Street, NE Washington, DC 20549-1090 Re: #SR-NASDAQ-2020-081 Dear Acting Chairwoman Lee, We write to you on behalf of the American Association of People with Disabilities and Disability:IN, two of the [...]
Download PDF version February 17, 2021Adena T. FriedmanPresident and Chief Executive OfficerNasdaq151 W. 42nd StreetNew York, NY 10036Re: SR#-NASDAQ-2020-081Dear Ms. Friedman,We write to you on behalf of the American Association of People with Disabilities (AAPD) and Disability:IN, two of the nation’s leading disability 501(c)(3) not-for-profit [...]
The American Association of People With Disabilities and nonprofit group Disability:IN sent letters to the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission and Nasdaq Inc. asking Nasdaq to include people with disabilities in its board diversity proposal. In December 2020, Nasdaq asked the SEC for permission to roll out a series [...]
NEW YORK (Reuters) - Two organizations representing people with disabilities asked Nasdaq Inc on Tuesday to be more inclusive in the exchange operator’s proposal to require all of its listed companies to adopt new rules related to board diversity. Nasdaq in December proposed new rules that will require most [...]
Activists are pushing Nasdaq Inc. to expand its proposed board-diversity rules to include people with disabilities. The exchange operator’s planned regulations are currently too narrow and should be amended, Disability:IN and the American Association of People with Disabilities said in comment letters submitted jointly to the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission. [...]
View Release on Global News Wire Institutional investors also push for measuring and reporting disability diversity in the corporate boardroom ALEXANDRIA, VA. (Feb. 23, 2021)—Disability:IN, the leading global nonprofit organization for advancing business disability inclusion and equality, and the American Association of People with Disabilities (AAPD), a national cross-disability [...]
