Enterprise Holdings has announced that it will be donating a grant of $3 million to the National Urban League through its philanthropic offshoot: the Enterprise Rent-A-Car Foundation. The grant, to be paid out over three years, was announced at a conference in Washington DC, where the Urban League was celebrating its centenary.

Enterprise has been a long-time partner of the National Urban League. In 2002, Andy Taylor, chairman and chief executive of Enterprise Holdings, joined the Urban League’s National Conference as its General Chairman. Enterprise was also responsible for underwriting a study by the Urban League, conducted in 2004, that looked at workplace diversity and employees’ attitudes to it.

By making its donation to the League’s Centre for Urban Leadership, the Enterprise Foundation will help with the administration of the organisation’s affiliates across the nation. The League’s main aim is to offer opportunities and empowerment to those growing up in underdeveloped communities throughout the US.

As well as announcing their donation, Enterprise will continue to celebrate the League reaching 100 by encouraging employees to sign up to its empowerment campaign. Enterprise will also join with the League’s other affiliates at the end of the month to celebrate Founder’s Day. This will be commemorated by a showcasing of various projects supported by the Urban League across the US.

Taylor said that Enterprise was proud to be a partner of the National Urban League and would continue to support the organisation’s efforts to change the lives of individuals as well as communities. The business community has a great ally in the Urban League, he added.