Bank of America
Established in 2003 with more than 15,602
members throughout the country, Bank of
America’s ERG, HOLA, is committed to
making Bank of America the best place for
Hispanic/Latino employees to work and grow
professionally by inspiring and fostering an
inclusive environment for all employees in
support of the bank’s purpose and strategy.
HOLA is proud to have broad
representation across all lines of business and
levels of the company, including mid-to-upper
senior management, and consistently provides
feedback and is invited to engage in internal
and external diversity issues. Externally, HOLA
was instrumental in testing the mobile app in
Spanish and reviewing translated pages,
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employees, input from HOLA was used to
inform the bank’s statement and positioning
around the DACA program. With 34 percent of
new checking accounts opened by
Hispanic/Latino clients, HOLA has advocated
for resources to be available in Spanish. The
Bank of America mobile app is now available
in Spanish with close to 2 Million active users
on the Spanish Mobile app.
In July, Bank of America proudly signed
the Hispanic Promise, launched by the We Are
All Human Foundation as a further way to
show their commitment to create an
inclusive workplace and take positive actions
to hire, promote, retain, and celebrate
Hispanics as employees, customers and
citizens.
Fannie Mae Hispanic ERG
CVS Health
CVS Health established a Latino Mentoring
Group 31 years ago, which later combined
with the Portuguese Empowerment Group
to form the Portuguese and Latino
Empowerment Group (PLEG), one of 15
Colleague Resource Groups (CRGs) at the
company. Aetna’s Hispanic CRG, AHORA, was
established in 2006. CVS Health acquired
Aetna in late 2018, and the two CRGs
combined and rebranded as JUNTOS Latin
Colleague Resource Group in 2019. This
integrated CRG is open to all CVS Health and
Aetna employees and includes members and
leaders from both sides of the combined
company.
With a mission to further CVS Health’s
purpose of helping people on their path to
better health, JUNTOS helps the company
foster and celebrating the unique Latin
cultures, and supporting the recruitment,
retention and development of Latino and
Portuguese colleagues. CVS Health is
committed to cultivating and fostering a
positive ecosystem that promotes inclusivity
through partnership opportunities in Latin
communities, colleague engagement, and the
enhancement of CVS’s competitive
advantages in the marketplace.
JUNTOS: Latin Colleague Resource
Group, has grown to over 1,600 members in
37 states and 1 U.S. territory. Led by two
National Co-Chairs: Lisa Martinez and
Veronica Medina, JUNTOS engages in
company events and CRG fairs, as well as the
annual Diversity Leadership Forum, held by
the Strategic Diversity Management Team.
JUNTOS helps the company promote a
work environment where employees can bring
their whole selves to the workplace.
The group also supports the company by
providing marketplace insights and fostering a
strong local and community presence.
Established more than 20 years ago and with a
membership of approximately 225 in five states,
DC, MD, VA, CA and TX, Fannie Mae’s Hispanic
ERG seeks to increase cultural awareness within
the organization and to provide members with
professional development opportunities. This
community also helps support business
partnerships to impact minority homeownership,
employee recruitment and retention.
The Hispanic ERG is one of Fannie Mae’s
12 ERGs. These ERGs are employee-initiated
and employee-led, and are fully supported by
the company, through the Office of Minority and
Women Inclusion, which provides a budget,
event planning support, compliance, and
general advice on activities and events. The
Hispanic ERG is supported by dual executive
sponsors, based in Plano and Washington, to
raise the visibility of this ERG across the
company.
The ERG provides a forum for members to
come together to support professional growth
and development, cultural awareness,
education, community service, and network
across the organization. Members also have an
opportunity to interact with leadership and build
mentor/mentee relationships. The ERG seeks to
provide a forum to educate and promote
awareness of the Hispanic culture across the
organization. Specifically, in 2019, the Hispanic
ERG sponsored a Hispanic Heritage Cultural Fair
to commemorate Hispanic Heritage Month,
sponsored several meetings with external
speakers, including most recently, with Manolo
Sanchez, Fannie Mae Board Member and
former President and CEO of Compass Bank,
who discussed how diversity matters in an
organization.
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