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MAKING TECH ACCESSIBLE: HOW BOX IS MAKING SPACE FOR DIVERSITY + INCLUSION

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Published
February 14, 2018
Categories
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Diversity, Employment, Nonprofit, Opportunity, Tech

Box IT Director Jason Bergado with his team

Many of us know cloud-content management company Box for the collaboration and
storage it provides, and the often invisible ways it makes our daily work
easier. But to Tipping Point, Box is making space not just for important
documents, but for the essential and complex work of true corporate social
responsibility.

Last December, Tipping Point honored Box with a Partner Award in recognition of
its work to go beyond corporate giving, and focus on integrating workplace
diversity and inclusion into their core business model. In 2014, Box founded
Box.org, its philanthropic initiative, and joined our corporate engagement
program SF Gives with a gift of private stock. Since then, Box has been a
dedicated partner on multiple levels. Through Box.org, Box makes it platform
more accessible to nonprofits by donating free licenses to all eligible
organizations — 37 of Tipping Point’s 44 grantees have access to Box. And
“Boxers” — as Box staff are known — have hosted career days and mentored
participants from 15 Tipping Point grantees.

Box is also paying close attention to how to better share the Bay Area’s
prosperity with a wider cross-section of our community. People of color, people
from low-income backgrounds, and women remain underrepresented in the tech
sector especially. The road to fully integrating diversity and inclusion is a
long one, but can also make companies more innovative and more rooted in their
local populations. Box has been a key player in Tipping Point’s research into
how companies can employ and support talent from non-traditional backgrounds
while at the same time creating a thriving workforce that reflects the full
diversity of the Bay Area.

At Tipping Point’s Awards Breakfast last month, Box CEO and co-founder Aaron
Levie reflected on his own journey to understanding the importance of corporate
social responsibility. “Not only was there no contradiction between scaling a
company and doing good for the community: doing good was actually fundamental to
building a sustainable and healthy organization,” said Levie. “We’re really
excited to be working with Tipping Point to help make tech companies more
accessible to the local community.”

As described in the most recent chapter of our SF Gives Playbook, Box has tested
internship programs that provide on-ramps non-traditional candidates (including
those without four-year college degrees) through workplace development programs
like Year Up, a Tipping Point grantee. Today, a third of Box’s IT team is
comprised of those who entered via non-traditional routes.

Here at Tipping Point, we’re also excited about the ways Box is working to
standardize their hiring process and work with external partners to identify and
hire non-traditional talent, enabling both a broader pool of candidates and an
expansion of how hiring managers consider a candidate’s potential. These kinds
of efforts are supported by organizational structures — such as an internal
Diversity and Inclusion Lead as well as executive support, internal trainings,
and volunteer time off (VTO) — that communicate throughout the daily routines of
the company its commitment to multi-level and long-standing work to advance
equity.

We know this is a tough nut to crack: for companies dedicated to building
inclusive workplaces, the pressure feels high as progress feels slow. But
diverse teams have been shown to have higher financial returns, better employee
retention, and tend to be more innovative. We’re grateful to have engaged
partners like Box, and we are hopeful that we can continue to learn from these
efforts in the name of a more just and equitable Bay Area.

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