For the second consecutive year, the Dave Thomas Foundation for Adoption has announced that Cornell has been named to its "Top 100 Adoption-Friendly Workplaces" list, which recognizes U.S. employers that offer outstanding employee programs for adoptive parents.

The foundation recognized Cornell's ongoing efforts to create such inclusive employee policies as awarding up to $5,000 in financial assistance for employees who want to adopt children.

"This award helps verify Cornell's wide-ranging efforts to create a welcoming work environment for people from all walks of life," said Lynette Chappell-Williams, director of Cornell's Office of Workforce Diversity, Equity and Life Quality.

In February, Cornell also was named a top place to work for prospective parents by Conceive Magazine, and in March, as a top company for women executives by the National Association for Female Executives.

The Dave Thomas Foundation for Adoption is a not-for-profit public charity dedicated to increasing adoptions for the more than 140,000 children in North American foster-care systems who are waiting to be adopted. The late Dave Thomas, founder of Wendy's Old Fashioned Hamburgers, an adoptee and longtime advocate of adoption rights, founded the foundation.

For more information about the foundation, visit http://www.davethomasfoundation.org/, and for more about adoption and other work and family programs at Cornell, see http://www.ohr.cornell.edu/contactHR/workLifeDiversity/.