Convergys Receives National Business in the Arts Award.Business Editors CINCINNATI--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Oct. 1, 2003 Convergys Receives New Initiative Award for Outstanding Overall Support of the Arts from the Business Committee for the Arts Convergys Corporation (NYSE NYSE See: New York Stock Exchange :CVG CVG Convergys Corp CVG Corporación Venezolana de Guayana CVG Clear Vertical Grain (woodworking) CVG Carrier Group CVG Corporacion Venezolana de Guyana CVG Comprehensive Video Group (South Hackensack, NJ, USA) ), the global leader in integrated billing, employee care, and customer care services, announced today that it received the 2003 Business in the Arts New Initiative Award for outstanding support of the arts. On Tuesday, September 30, The Business Committee for the Arts (BCA BCA Business Case Analysis BCA Building Code of Australia BCA Boeing Commercial Airplanes BCA Board of Contract Appeals BCA Boston Center for the Arts BCA Billiard Congress of America BCA Bureau of Criminal Apprehension BCA Breast Cancer Action ) and Forbes Magazine presented Convergys with the national recognition at an awards ceremony in New York New York, state, United States New York, Middle Atlantic state of the United States. It is bordered by Vermont, Massachusetts, Connecticut, and the Atlantic Ocean (E), New Jersey and Pennsylvania (S), Lakes Erie and Ontario and the Canadian province of . Convergys is one of seven award recipients this year and joins the list of distinguished previous award winners such as Johnson & Johnson, American Express American Express (NYSE: AXP), sometimes known as "AmEx" or "Amex", is a diversified global financial services company, headquartered in New York City. The company is best known for its credit card, charge card and traveler's cheque businesses. , AT&T, Hallmark Cards Hallmark Cards, a privately owned American company based in Kansas City, Missouri, is the largest manufacturer of greeting cards in the United States. Approximately 50% of greeting cards sent in the United States every year are manufactured by Hallmark. , and Target Corporation. Since David Rockefeller David Rockefeller, Sr. (born June 12, 1915) is a prominent American banker, philanthropist, world statesman, and the current patriarch of the Rockefeller family. He is the youngest and only surviving child and grandchild, respectively, of the prominent philanthropist John D. founded the BCA in 1967, it has annually recognized businesses for outstanding vision, leadership, and commitment in developing exemplary partnerships with the arts. "We are especially pleased that Convergys - a relatively young company - is a recipient of a Business in the Arts Award. The company is not only creating positive advances by making the arts accessible, it is also setting the standard for other young companies to follow," said Judith A. Jedlicka, Business Committee for the Arts President. "This award is like the Oscar for the arts. Receiving this award just five years after becoming a public company is a special honor for Convergys and the Convergys Foundation," said Convergys Vice President Cheryl Campbell, who also serves as the executive director of the Convergys Foundation. "The same creative thinking that generates innovative business solutions for our clients is helping us find new ways to give more adults and children access to the arts. It's not just about sending more people to events like the opera or ballet, it's about taking the arts to the neighborhoods where everyone can enjoy and benefit from them." Convergys has taken an innovative leadership role by developing the Leadership Giving Model for the Cincinnati Fine Arts Fund in 1999 and remaining among the top ranked companies for Leadership Giving. Convergys continues to champion this program as other prominent businesses adopt the model for their own fundraising. "Our employees take great pride in our reputation for corporate citizenship Corporate Citizenship The extent to which businesses are socially responsible in meeting legal, ethical and economic responsibilities placed on them by shareholders. The aim it to create higher standards of living and quality of life in the community in which it operates, while ," Campbell said. "This award would not be possible without the hard work and dedication of our employees who give generously of their time and support to the arts." Convergys employees take responsibility for improving the quality of life in the communities in which they live and work by supporting more than 30 arts organizations in North America North America, third largest continent (1990 est. pop. 365,000,000), c.9,400,000 sq mi (24,346,000 sq km), the northern of the two continents of the Western Hemisphere. . Every October, thousands of employees commit to volunteer projects as part of our corporate-wide Community Action Day. Employees choose and lead their own Community Action Teams to support their favorite arts organizations. Convergys brings the arts to more than 41,000 individuals in new and non-traditional audiences in North America every year. In Utah, Convergys sends 8,000 children to the annual Utah Arts Festival An arts festival or art fair is a festival that focuses on the visual arts, but which may also focus on other arts. Arts festivals in the visual arts are exhibitions. . In Halifax, Nova Scotia For other uses, see Halifax. 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For more than fifty years, the Opera performed at the Cincinnati Zoo Pavilion and, at its peak, offered 18 productions of over 61 performances in a ten-week season. by making the arts accessible to more individuals by welcoming inner-city children, senior citizens, and adults to attend an annual festival and opera performance free of charge. About BCA The Business Committee for the Arts, Inc. (BCA), founded in 1967 by David Rockefeller, is a national not-for-profit organization that brings business and the arts together. It provides businesses of all sizes with the services and resources necessary to develop and advance partnerships with the arts that benefit business, the arts and the community, including professional consulting services and specialized workplace programs, such as art@work(R). For additional information about these award recipients, visit www.bcainc.org and choose the Business in the Arts Awards icon. About Convergys Convergys Corporation (NYSE:CVG), a member of the S&P 500 and the Forbes' Platinum 400, is the global leader in integrated billing, employee care, and customer care services provided through outsourcing or licensing. We serve top companies in telecommunications, Internet, cable and broadband services, technology, financial services The examples and perspective in this article or section may not represent a worldwide view of the subject. Please [ improve this article] or discuss the issue on the talk page. , and other industries in more than 40 countries. We also provide integrated, outsourced, human resource services to leading companies across a broad range of industries. We bring together world-class resources, software, and expertise to help create valuable relationships between our clients and their customers and their employees. This commitment is validated by the more than 1.5 million individual bills our software produces each day to support more than 120 million subscribers, and by the more than 1.7 million separate customer and employee contacts we manage each day, both live and via electronic interaction. Convergys(R) employs more than 48,000 people in 50 customer contact centers and in our data centers and other offices in the United States United States, officially United States of America, republic (2005 est. pop. 295,734,000), 3,539,227 sq mi (9,166,598 sq km), North America. The United States is the world's third largest country in population and the fourth largest country in area. , Canada, Latin America, Europe, the Middle East, and Asia. Convergys is on the net at www.convergys.com, and has world headquarters in Cincinnati. (Convergys and the Convergys logo are registered trademarks of Convergys Corporation.) |
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