Learn Celebrating Hispanic Heritage Month

September fifteen marked the commencement of Hispanic Heritage Month as well as the start of our tertiary twelvemonth celebrating the Hispanic community through events as well as community outreach initiatives. Googlers from our Corporate Social Responsibility Team, Diversity & Inclusion Team, Engineering Industry Team, the Hispanic Googler Network (HGN), as well as our Community Partners worked together to host 20+ events focused on this year’s subject of Latinos inward Technology.

We kicked things off at the U.S. Hispanic Chamber of Commerce (USHCC) National Conference, where ii members from our Google Accelerate team worked one-on-one amongst describe of piece of work concern owners during matchmaking sessions to consult on the best usage of Google tools for their enterprises. Googler Eliana Murillo spoke on a panel titled “Beyond Social Media: The Potential of Technology & the Internet inward a Global Economy,” where she shared how tools similar Google Analytics, YouTube as well as Google for Nonprofits tin endure useful for businesses.

In early on October, nosotros ran a Hispanic Heritage Month 2012 Hangout on Air on the Life at Google page amongst the Latino Community Foundation (LCF). Raquel Donoso (CEO of LCF) as well as Googlers Hector Mujica (HGN member) as well as myself shared the history of the partnership as well as what our respective goals are. They also talked virtually the Family Health Day at Google & Olympic Games event, which nosotros held at our Mountain View, Calif. headquarters that same week. Health is a pressing issue (PDF) inward the Hispanic community; at this event, usage of the Binational Health Week, nosotros encouraged guests to convey healthier lifestyles past times teaching them unopen to tardily exercises, how to endure active as well as swallow healthy. More than 380+ community members as well as 50+ Googlers attended.

Last calendar week nosotros wrapped upwardly a serial of networking events inward partnership amongst the Society of Hispanic Engineers (SHPE), where to a greater extent than than 400+ technical professionals came to our Seattle, Cambridge, Chicago, Los Angeles, Austin, New York, as well as Mountain View Offices to network as well as larn virtually how Google is supporting the local hispanic technical community.



Finally, today the Hispanic Googler Network is hosting the Bay Area Latino Employee Resource Group (ERG) Networking Reception inward Mountain View. The Honorable Aida Alvarez, Chair of the Latino Community Foundation of the Bay Area, volition speak to 300+ guests from local Hispanic ERGs inward the Bay Area virtually what LCF is doing to produce a amend hereafter for Latino children, youth as well as families inward the Hispanic community.

Though the calendar month officially comes to an terminate today, we’ll maintain to back upwardly the Hispanic community equally a Pb sponsor inward the LATISM '12 conference, taking house inward ii weeks. LATISM ‘12 connects Latinos inward social media, technology, education, describe of piece of work concern as well as wellness fields to growth their online footprint through the spider web as well as Google's tools for modest businesses as well as communities. We’re also participating inward the Society of Hispanic Professional Engineers Conference as well as volition shortly opened upwardly up applications for our Hispanic College Fund Google scholarship.

We’ve had a groovy fourth dimension celebrating Hispanic Heritage Month, as well as are already looking frontwards to side past times side year’s events. We invite y'all to sentiment the recaps, photos as well as hangouts on our Life at Google page on Google+ as well as to see our Diversity & Inclusion site where y'all tin encounter to a greater extent than of what nosotros do.

Posted past times Sylvia Bonilla Zizumbo, Hispanic Googler Network Chair as well as Strategic Partnerships Lead 

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