2022 Highlights from Our Employee Resource Groups Promoting Equity & Inclusion through Our eight Employee Resource Group (ERGs) serve a Civic Engagement & Advocacy critical role in nurturing a sense of community and Celebrating Latinx communities Uplifting the Pan-Asian community In advance of the 2022 belonging, supporting talent recruitment and retention Aliados launched “Cafecito Connections” sessions Rise conducted its first mentorship program with U.S. Midterm Election, we and furthering our DIE&B strategy. We are continuing to build connections internally and continued its 200 pairs of mentors and mentees and partnered relaunched our PayPal to evolve our ERGs to support our business initiatives focus on career building by offering a mentorship with the PayPal Community Impact team to raise Votes initiative to encourage while fostering a culture of belonging through: program with Latinx senior leaders. more than $28,000 for flood relief in Pakistan. employee civic engagement and provided all PayPal employees four hours of paid time off to • Elevating the role of ERG leaders and equipping vote. We also expanded our Community Impact these individuals with professional development and Time Off to allow our employees to volunteer as mentorship opportunities. poll workers and hosted polling places at our • Launching our inaugural ERG summit and ERG Inspiring Black employees Supporting our military veterans headquarters in San Jose, CA, U.S. and our office Academy series to promote collaboration, share best Amplify hosted events on career growth, mental resilience To honor and support PayPal veterans and the military in La Vista, NE, U.S. practices, build subject matter expertise and learn and financial empowerment. They also partnered with the community, Serve recorded a reading for children with We also launched programs and supported from senior leaders. Global Talent Acquisition team at the Afrotech Conference loved ones deployed and facilitated meet-ups for to attract more than 1,000 job applicants. Serve members. initiatives to foster broader community civic • Creating and refining policies and processes to help engagement, including the following: improve the planning and implementation capacity of our ERGs. • A consumer awareness campaign within the Venmo and PayPal apps before Election Day. • Underwrote and supported the Arizona Civic Promoting the value of faith at work Building an inclusive community for the disabled Spring initiative developed by the Institute for 8 8.1K+ 25+ Believe hosted interfaith events to promote understanding Thrive worked to implement Livestream Communication Citizens and Scholars. of the value of faith at work and provided faith education Access Realtime Translation captions and American Sign ERGs members countries on global worldviews and mental health sessions Language (ASL) interpreters for PayPal Global • Continued leadership with Time To Vote, focused on burnout. All-Hands events. helping the initiative to surpass 2,000 corporate supporters. In 2022, PayPal supported legislation with strong “By increasing representation, educating and connections to our core value of Inclusion, celebrating the diversity of our global workforce, including the Pregnant Workers Fairness Act, PayPal’s ERGs enable connection across identities Empowering LGBTQ+ employees Driving gender equity at PayPal which requires additional accommodations and and experiences, inspire pride among Pride hosted inspiring internal discussions Unity developed initiatives to support working protections for pregnant workers in the workplace. our employees and ensure that we with intersectional leaders and LGBTQ+ rights parents, provided financial literacy education and maintain a values-driven culture that advocates to drive awareness leadership development and released a second and empathy. season of the Looking Up podcast series. integrates DIE&B into our day-to-day and empowers our employees and customers to thrive.” Ellen Hayes VP, Employee Communications Culture and Community San Jose, CA, U.S.
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