PR Newswire, 6/1/2011 (Monique Berry, Yvette Graham)

National BDPA and WorkplaceDiversity.com, the source for diversity talent, announced Allstate Insurance, American Airlines, BlueCross BlueShield of IL, NM, OK, & TX, Intel, Johnson & Johnson, Merck, Northrop Grumman, State Farm Insurance, Wal-Mart Stores, WellPoint and Wells Fargo as the winners of the 2011 Best Companies for Blacks in Technology Award.

"These companies deserve special recognition for promoting a significant number of African Americans into their IT management ranks and for their outstanding community outreach and minority vendor programs," said National BDPA President, Yvette Graham.

Read the full PRNewswire story.

Premier Event Management, 12/31/2010 (Yvette Graham, Milt Haynes, Pamela Sexton)

Executive Advisory Council. See full list of Executive Advisory Council members for the Chicago event taking place on April 26-27, 2011.

See full roster of council members.

Diversity/Careers Magazine, 11/1/2010 (Yvette Graham)

BDPA Career Fair Comes to Philly. An enthusiastic crowd of job-seekers found plenty of opportunities in Philadelphia this summer when Black Data Processing Associates (BDPA) staged a 2010 career fair and technology conference.

Read the full Diversity/Careers Magazine article.

Diversity/Careers Magazine, 10/1/2010 (Jesse Bemley, Yvette Graham, Milt Haynes, Judaea Lane)

BDPA Stresses Access at National Conference.  National Black Data Processing Associates (BDPA) returned to its Philadelphia roots in late July for its thirty-second annual national conference. The society was founded in Philadelphia, PA in 1975, and had its first national conference in 1979 in Washington, DC. This is the sixth conference since then held in Philadelphia, the "city of brotherly love and sisterly affection," which also offers convenient access to eastern U.S. IT venues.

Read the rest of the Diversity/Careers magazine article here.

US Navy Website, 8/2/2010 (Yvette Graham)

Top Navy Officer Speaks at Black Data Processors Association Conference. Chief of Naval Operations (CNO) Adm. Gary Roughead was the keynote speaker at the 32nd Annual Black Data Processors Association (BDPA) Conference July 31.  At the awards gala, the Navy was awarded the Epsilon award for best company with growing diversity.  The National BDPA President, Yvette Graham praised the efforts of companies around the nation for their contributions towards developing and sustaining a successful work environment in the information technology field and the involvement with young people for the future.

Read the full US Navy article here.

Blog Talk Radio, 7/28/2010 (Monique Berry, Marc DiFrancisco, Yvette Graham, Milt Haynes, Paulette Johnson-Davis, Jacqueline Lawson, Earl Pace)

Cloud Suite Smart Presents 2010 BDPA Technology Conference Highlights. We would like to highlight the conference on the cozzas BlogTalkRadio program "CloudSuiteSmart"! The show’s segment would include short interviews of senior BDPA officials to discuss their vision and dream for the organization.

Listen to internet radio with Jacqueline Lawson on Blog Talk Radio

Click here to listen to audio of this radio show episode.

BDPA Press Release, 7/12/2010 (Yvette Graham, Coram Rimes)

National BDPA Recognizes Prudential as Gold Level Sponsor. BDPA recognizes Prudential Financial, a global financial services leader, as a Gold Level Corporate Sponsor. Other Gold Level sponsors with over $50,000 commitment to BDPA are Eli Lilly, Johnson & Johnson, Mayo Clinic and Oracle.

Prudential: BDPA Gold-Level Corporate Sponsor

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Market Watch, 5/18/2010 (Yvette Graham, Milt Haynes)

The National BDPA and WorkplaceDiversity.com Announce Winners of 2010 Best Companies for Blacks in Technology Award. The National BDPA, Black Data Processing Associates and WorkplaceDiversity.com, the source for diversity talent, announced Allstate Insurance, American Airlines, Compuware, Eli Lilly, Health Care Service Corporation, IBM, Intel, Merck, Prudential Financial, State Farm Insurance, US Navy, Wal-Mart Stores, WellPoint, and Wells Fargo as the winners of the 2010 Best Companies for Blacks in Technology Award.

Read the rest of the story here.

Diversity/Careers Magazine, 2/1/2010 (Monique Berry, Donald French, Yvette Graham, Charles Moore, Earl Pace)

BDPA Installs New Officers. Black Data Processing Associates (BDPA) installed new national officers in early January. Yvette Graham, who works at Allstate as director of the project development and operations organization for the claims department, is the group’s new national president. Monique Berry, an IT pro at Vanguard Group, is the new national president elect and VP of business management. Charles Moore of Wachovia is the new VP of finance. Founder Earl Pace and executive director Dr Donald French remain on the board.

The original news & views article is here.

YouTube, 1/23/2010 (Yvette Graham, Gibran McDuffie, Ricky Penick)

2010 BDPA Chicago Awards Banquet. This is a highlight and interview reel of Black Data Processing Associates (BDPA) annual awards banquet.




View the video here.

National BDPA, 1/4/2010 (Yvette Graham)

President Yvette Graham Takes Office. Premier Organization for African Americans in IT, The National Black Data Processing Associates (NBDPA) is pleased to announce the incoming administration led by President Yvette Graham of Chicago IL. With a new dawn brings a new vision. The BDPA Chapters can soon anticipate an internal targeted message campaign as well as learning of Yvette Graham’s strategic development plan which entails 3 key areas of internal focus: Operation Cleanup, Organization Transformation and Value Proposition. Externally, BDPA will seek out new partners and better engage existing partners and stakeholders to mutually realize the holistic BDPA value proposition.

Read the full media advisory here.

National BDPA, 7/1/2009 (Yvette Graham, Wayne Hicks, Cecil Jones, Patricia Perkins, Mary Rushiago, Pam Sexton)

2009 Pre-Conference Highlights. National BDPA dedicated the Spring edition of the JOURNAL to the 2009 conference held in Raleigh, NC. There are great articles and other features about BDPA and the conference in this outstanding 54-page document.

2009 National BDPA Pre-Conference JOURNAL

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