Intuit
Intuit Inc. is a leading provider of business and financial management solutions for small and mid-sized businesses; financial institutions, including banks and credit unions; consumers and accounting professionals. Its flagship products and services, including QuickBooks®, Quicken® and TurboTax® software, simplify small business management and payroll processing, personal finance, and tax preparation and filing. ProSeries® and Lacerte® are Intuit's leading tax preparation software suites for professional accountants. The company’s financial institutions division, anchored by Digital Insight, provides on-demand banking services to help banks and credit unions serve businesses and consumers with innovative solutions.  The company’s financial institutions division, anchored by Digital Insight, provides on-demand banking services to help banks and credit unions serve businesses and consumers with innovative solutions.

Founded in 1983, Intuit had annual revenue of $2.67 billion in its fiscal year 2007. The company has approximately 8,000 employees with major offices in the United States, Canada, the United Kingdom and other locations. More information can be found at www.intuit.com.

The Women's Conference
The Women's Conference is the nation's premier forum for women and largest gathering of women in the country. Recognized for its unparalleled capacity to empower and inspire women to become architects of change, the annual conference unites more than sixty internationally-acclaimed leaders and visionaries with 14,000 women in one arena, plus thousands more virtually, to share enriching stories of transformation and success, words of encouragement and life lessons. Under the leadership of California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger and First Lady Maria Shriver, the non-profit, non-partisan conference has grown from a California government initiative for working professionals into a life-changing experience and national network of women from all walks of life, backgrounds and perspectives.
www.californiawomen.org

California Association of Food Banks The California Association of Food Banks (CAFB) was founded in 1995 to promote collaboration in response to emerging social, economic and legislative challenges impacting hungry people throughout California. The mission of CAFB is to provide a unified voice among food banks to maximize their ability to build a well nourished California. To accomplish our mission, our membership of 40 food banks focuses on supporting food banks, increasing the visibility of hunger and its solutions, sharing food resources and influencing public policy. CAFB develops and advocates positions at the federal, state, and local level on behalf of our member agencies and low-income people.
www.cafoodbanks.org

Legal Aid
The Legal Aid Society of Orange County’s mission is to provide civil legal services to low income individuals and seniors and to promote equal access to the justice system through advocacy, legal counseling, innovative self-help services, in-depth legal representation, economic development and community education.
www.lasoc.com

United Way of Greater Los Angeles
United Way of Greater Los Angeles has a new ten-year action plan to fight poverty in Los Angeles County. With a single gift, you support programs and initiatives across three critical areas- basic needs, education and financial stability- creating pathways out of poverty for those in need and improving the quality of life for us all.
www.unitedwayla.org

La Opinion
La Opinión is the leading Spanish-language daily newspaper in the country, distributing 124,784 copies throughout the five-county Southern California area and reaching 538,509 readers on a daily basis. La Opinión was founded in 1926 in Los Angeles to provide daily news and information to a Hispanic population that has grown to become the nation's largest. In 2000, La Opinión Digital was launched, creating not only an online publication of the newspaper, but also a premier Spanish-language website. La Opinión is owned and operated by ImpreMedia LLC. For more information, please visit our website at www.laopinion.com.

California’s First 5
Research shows that a child’s brain develops most dramatically in the first five years and what parents and caregivers do during these years to support their child’s growth will have a meaningful impact throughout life. Based on this research, First 5 California was established after voters passed Proposition 10 in November 1998, adding a 50 cents-per-pack tax on cigarettes to fund early education, health, parent support and other programs for expectant parents and children up to age 5. For more information on First 5 California, visit www.first5california.com

CaliforniaVolunteers
CaliforniaVolunteers is the state agency that manages programs and initiatives to increase the number of Californians involved with service and volunteering. Through the innovative Web site, CaliforniaVolunteers.org, individuals and families can search for volunteer opportunities throughout the state that match their interests. Today there are nearly 30,000 opportunities involving the arts, education, animals, disaster preparedness, the environment and other areas of interest.
www.californiavolunteers.org

Service Employees International Union (SEIU)
The SEIU California State Council is over 650,000 members strong in California and are proud to be part of the largest and fastest growing union in the United States, the Service Employees International Union, with over 1.9 million members nationwide. The State Council is organized to mobilize our membership to pursue an action-oriented, issue driven political program that improves the lives of the workers we represent. The Mission of the SEIU California State Council is to improve the lives of working people and their families, working together to create a more just and humane society.
www.seiu.org/splash

American Federation of State, County & Municipal Employees (AFSCME)
AFSCME’s 1.4 million members provide the vital services that make America happen and advocate for prosperity and opportunity for all working families. We are nurses, corrections officers, child care providers, EMTs and sanitation workers. For us, public service is not just a job, it’s a calling. At times we are right out front, and at other times we are behind the scenes. Wherever we are, we’re proud to take on the responsibility of helping to keep this country strong.  AFSCME is a union made up of a diverse group of people who share a common commitment to public service. We see the big picture and gladly accept the responsibility of guarding and nurturing it — not because we expect to be recognized for our sacrifice, but because we know the job needs to be done. That’s why we’re in the public service — to keep our families safe and make our communities strong.  While we work for justice in the workplace, we advocate for prosperity and opportunity for all of America’s working families. We not only stand for fairness at the bargaining table — we fight for fairness at the ballot box and in the halls of government.
www.afscme.org

Save the Children
For 75 years, Save the Children has been helping children survive and thrive by improving their health, education, and economic opportunities, and in times of acute crisis, mobilizing rapid life-saving assistance to help children recover from the effects of conflict and natural disasters, including the devastating 2007 fires in San Diego County. In California, Save the Children's work focuses on early childhood education, literacy and physical activity and nutrition programs, benefiting thousands of children in areas of persistent, rural poverty such as Morongo Valley and Mendota. Through our continuum of services from birth through grade 8, Save the Children is providing the youngest children with a strong foundation for learning and school-aged children with the skills they need to succeed academically and live healthy, active and productive lives.
www.savethechildren.org

Small Business Development Centers (SBDC)
The California Network of Small Business Development Centers help individuals start, manage and grow their businesses and assist local communities with job creation and business expansion. If you seek to grow your business, find new clients & markets, obtain financing, learn about & apply new technology or operate more professionally, we can help.
www.asbdc-us.org

California Black Media Association
In 2001 the CBMA was formed by Black media owners as a state-wide advocacy group for the Black media industry. As Black media, we believe we have a responsibility to be recorders of history, vehicles of enlightenment for our people, and to be voices for the voiceless. It is our mission to remain engaged in our communities, develop and nurture governmental and political alliances for the betterment of the communities we serve, and to promote the viability and credibility of the Black media throughout the State of California.
www.calblackmediaassoc.com

PG&E
Pacific Gas and Electric Company, incorporated in California in 1905, is one of the largest combination natural gas and electric utilities in the United States. Based in San Francisco, the company is a subsidiary of PG&E Corporation.  There are approximately 20,000 employees who carry out Pacific Gas and Electric Company's primary business—the transmission and delivery of energy. The company provides natural gas and electric service to approximately 15 million people throughout a 70,000-square-mile service area in northern and central California.
www.pge.com

Wal-Mart
Sam Walton said it best, "If we work together, we'll lower the cost of living for everyone...we'll give the world an opportunity to see what it's like to save and have a better life." Saving people money to help them live better was the goal that Sam Walton envisioned when he opened the doors to the first Wal-Mart. Today, more than 40 years later with 7,390 Wal-Mart stores and Sam's Club locations in 14 markets, employing more than 2 million associates, serving more than 200 million customers per year, we continue to deliver that promise to families around the globe. It's the focus that underlies everything we do at Wal-Mart. And for the millions of customers who shop in our stores and clubs around the world each week, it means a lot. All around the world, we save people money, so they can live better. That's good news - in any language.
www.walmart.com

Bank of America
Bank of America is one of the world's largest financial institutions, serving individual consumers, small and middle market businesses and large corporations with a full range of banking, investing, asset management and other financial and risk-management products and services. The company provides unmatched convenience in the United States, serving more than 59 million consumer and small business relationships with more than 6,100 retail banking offices, nearly 19,000 ATMs and award-winning online banking with nearly 24 million active users. Bank of America is the No. 1 overall Small Business Administration (SBA) lender in the United States and the No. 1 SBA lender to minority-owned small businesses. The company serves clients in 175 countries and has relationships with 99 percent of the U.S. Fortune 500 companies and 80 percent of the Fortune Global 500.The Bank of America Charitable Foundation is the largest corporate philanthropic organization in the financial services industry, contributing $200,000 annually in the areas of community development, arts & culture, education, the environment, health and human services and youth development. www.bankofamerica.com

Visa
For over a decade Visa has been has been at the vanguard in California and throughout the nation in promoting financial literacy. We have provided free, award-winning financial education materials to millions of parents, teachers and students through our Practical Money Skills for Life programs. Our financial education curriculum has proven to be enormously popular in the classroom and we have been working to offer this resource, at no cost, to teaching institutions and community-based organizations throughout California. We believe that by improving financial literacy through instructional materials to Californians particularly to underserved communities, the future of California's economic prosperity will be strengthened. Visa is poised to assist community leaders and to ensure that all Californian's are empowered to have a solid understanding of how to manage their money wisely.
www.visa.com

California Highway Patrol
The mission of the California Highway Patrol is to provide the highest level of safety, service, and security to the people of California. This mission is accomplished through the combined efforts of uniformed officers as well as thousands of civilian employees working together to keep California roadways safe. For more information on employment opportunities within the California Highway Patrol, go to www.chpcareers.com.

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