People: We Unlock Opportunity

We are stepping up our investment in Yum!’s new social purpose to unlock opportunity in our people and communities, while championing equity, inclusion and belonging across all aspects of our brands and franchise business.

Videos from this campaign

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Content from this campaign

Diversity & Inclusion

Yum! Brands Celebrates Lunar New Year
Happy Lunar New Year! We wish you all great health and prosperity in the new year.

From the U.S. to Singapore, read how some of our people are celebrating Lunar New Year across the world:

Diversity & Inclusion

Frankly Speaking With Franchisees: Standing on the Shoulders of Elephants
Yum! travels to East Asia where Tavan Bogd Group Executive Vice President Hulan Dashdavaa shares how she overcame adversity and grew her collection of businesses to include nearly 30 KFC and Pizza Hut restaurants in her home country. Here is her story.

Education

Taco Bell® Spices Up The Path To Higher Education With Lil Nas X
This year, newly appointed Chief Impact Officer Lil Nas X is helping the Taco Bell Foundation launch the Live Más Scholarship application to enable students from all backgrounds to pursue their passions.

Awards, Ratings & Rankings

The OUTstanding Top 100 Executives 2021
Yum! Brands is proud to congratulate Neil Piper, chief people officer of KFC UK & Ireland, for being named to 2021 OUTstanding LGBT+ Role Model List.

Education

BOOK IT!® Welcomes Pre-K Classrooms To Enroll and Announces Reading Giveaway
For its 37th year, BOOK IT! is launching some exciting changes to the program. This year, the program is open to PreK classrooms and homeschooled students to encourage a love of reading among younger learners.

Diversity & Inclusion

Lawyer by Day, Children's Book Author by Night: How Susan Do Uses Her Voice and Vietnamese Culture in More Ways Than One
Susan Do wears many hats. At work, she is legal counsel for Pizza Hut Digital Ventures. At home, she is a wife and a mother to two Vietnamese-Honduran boys. And now, she is also the author of “The Phở Team,” a children’s book Do authored, illustrated, and published in the summer of 2020.

Diversity & Inclusion

Yum! Brands and the University of Louisville Announce First-of-its-Kind Education and Research Center to Unlock Opportunities in Franchising for Underrepresented People of Color and Women
The Center is part of Yum! Brands’ Unlocking Opportunity Initiative, in which the Company committed $100 million over 5 years to promote equity and inclusion, education and entrepreneurship for employees, frontline restaurant teams and communities.

Diversity & Inclusion

Celebrating Asian American & Pacific Islander Heritage Month
At Taco Bell, we strive to learn more and lean into conversations that build on our passion of driving positive impact within and outside our Taco Bell community.

Diversity & Inclusion

Gurmit Jhaj, Pizza Hut Licensee and Taco Bell Franchisee, and Her American Dream

Philanthropy & Cause Initiatives

Campaign Spreads Hope
On Wednesday 10 March, KFC made a generous donation of 300 emergency food parcels to early childhood development centres (ECDCs) in Lavender Hill after the fast-food giant’s interest was sparked by an opinion piece posted in People’s Post.
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