DIVERSITY AND INCLUSION
Our racial equity commitments,
one year later
A S50 million investment in Historically Black Colleges and Universities, progress
hiring in
sites Iike Atlanta and D.C_ a new inclusive marketing toolkit;
and other efforts to make sure our workplace and products are equitable and
representative:
Jun 17,2021
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Melonie Parker
Chief Diversity Officer
ago today; we announced commitments to build sustainable equity
for Google's Black community and beyond,
and make our products and
programs more helpful to Black users. Since then, we ve been working t0
translate our commitments into lasting meaningful change. Today were
sharing more updates on our progress:
We re announcing a S50 million grant to Historically Black Colleges and
Universities to broaden access to opportunities for underrepresented groups
in STEM, and an update on the more than S320 million we've committed to
organizations working to address racial inequities over the past year In our
own
workplace, we're sharing progress on how we're hiring in key growth
sites like Atlanta and DC__and our new
onboarding pilot for Black Googlers_
And in our products, were launching
new
Marketing Toolkit and making
improvements to our Pixel camera to ensure the Black community is
represented in our work
Creating equity in our workplace
2020 was our largest year ever for hiring Black+ Googlers in the U.S,
both
overall, and in tech roles Were on track to meet our goals t0 improve
leadership representation of underrepresented groups by 30 percent by
2025 and more than double the number of Black Googlers at all other levels
by 2025.
key
growth
One
year