For years, Lagrant Foundation president Kim L. Hunter had been hearing his peers in the communications industry complain about the difficulty of finding qualified minority job candidates. When he decided to do something about it, however, the response was distinctly underwhelming.

Last week, Hunter spoke to PRWeek about his frustration with the industry's lack of support for the foundation, which will annually provide scholarships to ten minority college and graduating high school students pursuing a degree in a communications-related field. ...