June 2024

Special Financing Helps Jamaican Restaurateur Open New Location in Minneapolis

Originally published on U.S. Bank company blog

Tomme Beevas’ story starts in Kingston, Jamaica, where he soaked up inspiration from his grandmother, who loved to cook.

“My grandmother was a gregarious woman who built her own empire from scratch from the 1960s to 1980s,” Beevas said. “Growing up in her house, I had the opportunity to experience the greatest, freshest seafood one can imagine.”

Inspiring Conversations: Inside the Truist Foundation and American Red Cross Partnership

As we prepare for another busy hurricane season — expected to be one of the most active in years — Truist Foundation President Lynette Bell connects with American Red Cross President and CEO Gail McGovern to discuss how they partner to support critical disaster preparedness, relief and recovery work.

Fifth Third’s Project Search Interns Graduate to New Positions

This spring, 10 interns with Fifth Third’s Project SEARCH program graduated, richer in knowledge, skills and work experience – and ready to take on gainful employment.

Project SEARCH, a one-year transition program for high school students with disabilities, aims to provide participants with marketable and transferable skills. Fifth Third’s program operates at the Bank’s Madisonville campus in Cincinnati.

DE&I Perspectives: Celebrating the LGBTQIA+ Community

ERGs Unplugged is our internal diversity, equity, and inclusion (DE&I) podcast, where we take a deeper dive into the power of our Employee Resource Groups (ERGs). In our third episode, PRISM (our LGBTQIA+ ERG) members Avery Springe and Taran Neiderman share their experiences and discuss how the ERG has influenced them both personally and professionally.

Avery Springe shares an inspiring story of how he utilized his community in PRISM, our LGBTQIA+ ERG, to pioneer a change in policy—giving all individuals access to a gender-neutral bathroom no matter what state they reside in.

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