How Ernie Sparks Named the CIA

“There was a naming contest in February 2013. The contest was to come up with a name for a new volunteer group that would continually improve the culture of the company. I took clues from the email: Culture/improvement.

[The email] originally had used the word bureau so that gave me the idea of some three-letter agencies: C-I-A. I sent in eight variations. Cultural Improvement Agency was one of them.

I had used the word cultural. So, it was changed to be the more grammatically correct word, culture. My daughter drew this logo to go along with the names.”