#SpiritDay 2011: Corporate Partners

Some of the most inspiring stories from Spirit Day come from parents of LGBT youth who see co-workers supporting LGBT youth.

This year corporations are helping to spread the word including:

 


Confirmed participants:
AMC Entertainment
American Airlines
AT&T
B|W|R Public Relations
Comcast
Delta
Facebook
The Gas Company
Goldman Sachs
Hewlett-Packard
LAX
McGraw-Hill Companies
MTV
NBC Universal
Nielsen
PepsiCo
Raymond James Rainbow Network
Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP
Viacom
Verizon
WikiQueer
Yahoo!

How is Corporate America involved?
American Airlines helped spread the word with their LGBT Employee Resource Group, GLEAM by writing about Spirit Day in their daily employee newsletter and calendar.  

The American Federation of Teachers will be posting a special version of GLAAD's anti-bullying PSA aimed at teachers. AFT is also notifying teachers and members about Spirit Day.

AT&T will post an article for their more than 260,000 employees to learn about Spirit Day. Electronic Signage will be at One Whitacre Tower reminding  employees at the corporate headquarters building. LEAGUE at AT&T, the LGBT and Allies employees of AT&T,  will be changing its Internet site purple and holding a company-wide, virtual, “Purple-bag” town hall luncheon meeting with LEAGUE leaders, continuing their ERG Cares award-winning program LEAGUE at AT&T Cares About Bullying. In key locations LEAGUE members will provide employees purple chocolate “kisses,” a LEAGUE Spirit Day bookmark, and a purple Spirit Day ribbon. LEAGUE will leverage AT&T digital signage with Spirit Day postings to GO PURPLE. Technology will be front-and-center for Spirit Day as members: write email in purple, change AT&T instant-messaging photo to a purple Spirit Day graphic,change PC wallpaper, change AT&T tSpace photo to a purple Spirit Day graphic, download the app to change your Facebook Photo purple, and tweet #SPIRITDAY.

Comcast will be running GLAAD's 'Amplify Your Voice' anti-bullying PSA campaign and featuring GLAAD in a Newsmakerssegment. Employees will be educated about Spirit Day and LGBT History Month through an article on their intranet site.

Facebook distributed Spirit Day information to employees around the globe. Facebook Diversity and Facebook Safety pages will also turn purple.

NBCUniversal is informing all employees know about Spirit Day, including on-air talent and owned and operated stations around the country.

Yahoo! Pride has already started to promote Spirit Day on their Facebook fan page. Yahoo! is also holding photo shoots in various offices around the country to celebrate Spirit Day. Yahoo! also postedabout Spirit Day on the OMG! blog and sent an employee call-to-action to 'go purple' on Facebook and Twitter!

Mobli: Mobli, where users can share moments and see the world through other people’s eyes, is a real-time, visual social media platform, made up of subject-based channels such as people, places and topics. Mobli provides an intimate connection with otherwise unreachable personalities. Mobli was founded in 2011 by CEO Moshe Hogeg and has received $3mm funding from private investors. For more information about Mobli go to www.mobli.com, www.facebook.com/mobli, www.twitter.com/mobli.

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