Learn A Await Within Our 2011 Sort Report

We move difficult to ensure that our commitment to multifariousness is built into everything nosotros do—from hiring our employees in addition to edifice our fellowship civilization to running our concern in addition to developing our products, tools in addition to services. To recap our multifariousness efforts inwards 2011, a yr inwards which nosotros partnered alongside in addition to donated $19 1000000 to to a greater extent than than 150 organizations working on advancing diversity, nosotros created the 2011 Global Diversity & Talent Inclusion Report. Below are some highlights.

In the U.S., fewer in addition to fewer students are graduating alongside estimator scientific discipline degrees each year, in addition to enrollment rates are fifty-fifty lower for women in addition to underrepresented groups. It’s of import to grow a various talent puddle in addition to assist prepare the technologists of tomorrow who volition endure integral to the success of the engineering industry. Here are a few of the things nosotros did final yr aimed at this finish inwards the United States of America in addition to closed to the world:

• We held our 3rd annual HBCU (Historically Black Colleges in addition to Universities) Faculty Summit at Google New York, hosting 50 professors in addition to administrators from xvi HBCUs, who came together to collaborate, portion insights in addition to engage alongside Googlers.
• We helped 100,000 students in addition to faculty at 22 HBCUs inwards the United States of America “go Google;” they similar a shot role Google Apps for Education.
• To date, 3,000 students inwards 77 countries get got received Google scholarships in addition to nosotros also expanded our scholarship programs for women inwards technology.
• We piloted the Top Black Talent United Kingdom of Great Britain in addition to Northern Ireland program to assist the U.K.’s peak dark engineering scientific discipline in addition to concern students transition into the tech industry. We also partnered alongside the African Caribbean Area Society to offering 100 students workshops in addition to mentoring alongside Googlers from engineering, sales in addition to marketing.

We non solely promoted multifariousness in addition to inclusion exterior of Google, simply inside Google every bit well.

• We had to a greater extent than than 10,000 members participate inwards ane of our GoogleServe, resulting inwards 250 Googlers working on ix Veteran-related projects from San Francisco to London.
• Googlers inwards to a greater extent than than 50 offices participated inwards the Sum of Google, a celebration nearly multifariousness in addition to inclusion, inwards their respective offices closed to the globe.
• We sponsored 464 events inwards lxx countries to celebrate the anniversary of International Women's Day. Google.org collaborated alongside Women for Women International to launch the “Join me on the Bridge” campaign. Represented inwards xx languages, the drive invited people to celebrate past times joining each other on bridges closed to the world—either physically or virtually—to exhibit their support.

Since our early on days, it’s been of import to brand our tools in addition to services accessible in addition to useful to a global array of businesses in addition to user communities. Last year:

• We introduced ChromeVox, a concealment reader for Google Chrome, which helps people alongside vision harm navigate websites. It's slow to larn in addition to gratuitous to install every bit a Chrome Extension.
• We grew Accelerate alongside Google to brand Google’s tools, data in addition to services to a greater extent than accessible in addition to useful to underrepresented communities in addition to various concern partners.
• On Veterans Day inwards the U.S., nosotros launched a novel platform for armed services veterans in addition to their families. The Google for Veterans in addition to Families website helps veterans in addition to their families remain connected through products similar Google+, YouTube in addition to Google Earth.

We invite you lot to get got a await dorsum alongside us at our 2011 multifariousness in addition to inclusion highlights. We’re proud of the move we’ve done in addition to therefore far, simply also recognize that there’s much to a greater extent than to create to. These advances may non give at Internet speed, simply through our collective commitment in addition to involvement, nosotros tin endure a catalyst for change.

Posted past times Yolanda Mangolini, Director, Global Diversity & Inclusion/Talent & Outreach Programs

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