CORPORATIONS

CONTENTS:

• Fortune – Best Companies For Minorities
• Black Voices/Black Enterprise
• About – Six Questions

FORTUNE – BEST COMPANIES FOR MINORITIES

These companies are committed to a multicultural work force. To find the Top 50 in 2001, look in the left margin under "Companies" for the link to Best for Minorities. The top companies are identified by minority group, as well as by pay, managerial diversity, for purchasing from minority-owned companies and for charitable giving to programs benefiting minorities. The companies ranking highest in the charitable giving category were Advantica, Freddie Mac, Proctor & Gamble, Verizon and SGI.

http://www.fortune.com

BLACK VOICES/BLACK ENTERPRISE

A new company heads the list of Largest Black Companies, with $802 million in revenues in 2001. In fact, 23 industrial/services companies had sales of more than $200 million, up from twelve companies a year ago, according to Black Voices.com.

http://new.blackvoices.com/business/bv-worldwide010514.story?coll=bv_busines s_headline

Complete results can be found on the Black Enterprise Web site.

http://www.blackEnterprise.com/S0/PageOpen.asp?Source=BE100Tab/BE100home.htm

ABOUT – SIX QUESTIONS

Six Questions is a regular feature of the newsletter Websearch, available through About.com. In this series, internationally recognized super searchers and search engine experts share their best strategies and secrets. Read the interviews of two experts on business searching, Mary Ellen Bates and Gary Price. The cached articles, by Chris Sherman, are available through the URLs below.

Mary Ellen Bates, owner of Bates Information Services, is a business researcher, international speaker and author of several books on searching, including Super Searchers Do Business and Researching Online For Dummies.

http://www.google.com/search?q=cache:kxgyZY48Hi4C:websearch.about.com/library
/insider/blsix_mebates.htm+mary+ellen+bates,+six+questions&hl=en

Gary Price, Reference Librarian at the Gelman Library at George Washington University, is an authority on online databases and other search resources on the Invisible Web. He is the creator of Gary Price's List of Lists.

http://www.google.com/search?q=cache:T2icLqHZc5kC:websearch.about.com/
library/insider/blsix_garyprice.htm+gary+price,+six+questions&hl=en

Beverly Goodwin