 So hello everyone, as I mentioned earlier, my name is Bailey Keller and I'm a senior program manager with the strategic partnerships team at TechSoup. So I wanted to introduce my colleague Laura Ross Perry who will share TechSoup's approach to equity, inclusion, diversity and culture. Laura is a program development manager for TechSoup's global network of nonprofit partners, as well as a lead and collaborator on the equity, inclusion, diversity and culture program. She has a background in international development and ICT for development and a deep interest in exploring the intersections of civil society, social impact technology and digital development and global equity. So thank you for joining us today Laura. Hi everybody, and it's an honor to be able to join you today and get to share a little bit about TechSoup's approach to equity, inclusion, diversity and culture. So TechSoup actually had a pretty organic start to our program. In its relatively nascent years we started in October 2019 and this was from a staff built development of a global diversity awareness month. So we just had some passionate staff members who decided let's do some programming around global diversity awareness. From October 2019 till now we were able to formalize an official program, and we actually have a full time director now leading all of our equity initiatives. So our program I'm sure many of you have similar programs and you've heard a lot of different acronyms like DEI, JEDI for example. Ours is personally equity, inclusion, diversity and culture, EIDC. And we did this intentionally because we believe that equity ensures inclusion which brings meaning to diversity and then that builds culture. So it's really important for us to have those four different terms. Another important piece of this for us is that we really build equity into absolutely everything we do at TechSoup. It's a foundation for us, a foundation for all of our programs and all of our interactions with staff. So you can see on the left hand side we have built our program into three different pillars. So we wanted to make it, we wanted to be very intentional about not just focusing our equity work internally on staff but also with all of our stakeholders and in our community. So we have different pillars that we focus this work on. We have our organization. That's all of our policies, everything that goes into what builds our culture at TechSoup, ensuring that people feel like they belong and are included and heard and also developing an inclusive workforce. Then we have our network, which is all of the partners that we engage with, all of the vendors that we work with, the foundations we work with, all of our corporate partners, ensuring we share similar values and that we build equity into the programs that incorporate these partners. And then taking a step back out, we also have our community. So that's the larger ecosystem of civil society, which TechSoup is a part of. And we want to make sure that we are leaders of equity, inclusion, diversity and culture in that space and also continuously learning from others in the community as well. So all of our programming fits into these three pillars. The way that we do our work is through a very small but dedicated team at TechSoup, but also through a lot of staff involvement and impact. So one of the ways that we do that is through a bridge program. And bridge, we love acronyms here, you can see bridge stands for belonging, respect, inclusion, diversity and global equity. And it's essentially a formalized diversity council of cross functional employees. We collaborate, identify, discuss and think of ways to promote and maintain an inclusive culture. So there's a lot of event programming and different activities that come through the bridge program and a lot of business initiatives that can be leveraged through bridge as well. And then finally, we have recently formalized an affinity group program so we have four different formal affinity groups now which is super exciting. We have black allies we have alphabet soup which is our LGBTQ plus an allies affinity group. We have a racial justice allyship group and also one specifically for junior professionals. And these if you don't know what affinity groups are these are places for community members within TechSoup who identify with different expertise or different interests can come together have a safe space to discuss share do programming and events but also likewise to bridge have ways to leverage their expertise for different business initiatives in the organization. So all of these are different ways that we are really trying to weave equity into the fabric of everything that we do. And then we have a couple of different blog posts we've put together on our EIDC program so we have equity in action which is based on a webinar that our director Lashika who cannot be with us today that she facilitated, as well as a blog post on the power of So talking a little bit about what they are what they've done, what we've been able to do with them at TechSoup and how you can grow them at your own organization. Please, please, please reach out to us if you have anything to share we would love to learn from you we would love to be able to share what we have experienced and continue to grow more types of programs like these at organizations and companies around the globe. So EIDC at TechSoup.org we're looking forward to hearing from you. Thank you.