OUR COMMITMENT TO DIVERSITY, EQUITY, AND INCLUSION

We committed to matching 100% of our team's donations to racial justice organizations. Through our donation matching initiative, we donated $2000 to organizations like Equal Justice Initiative and the NAACP Legal Defense Fund.

Moving forward, Thousand is expanding our Thousand Gives donation program. Every year, we give $1000 to each of our employees to donate to the organization of their choice. In the past, these donations have been focused on sustainability initiatives through our partnership with 1% for the Planet. From now on, we'll open the Thousand Gives benefitting organizations to include diversity and equity-focused non-profits, in addition to sustainability causes.

We hosted a 6-week book club focused on the book Stamped by Ibram X. Kendi, with Thousand providing the book to any team members who requested. 

We also invested in continued DEI training and education for our entire team. We enrolled in Brit Barron's online course, Understanding Racism 101, with mandatory participation for all team members.  

We continue to participate in all-team sessions to examine the history of racism; to discuss lessons learned about system racism; and to create tactical action plans to incorporate anti-racism into our personal and professional lives.

We're continuing to assess how Thousand should incorporate DEI into our corporate structure by doing a DEI audit of our business, which will help us understand where we need to improve and what we can do.

We've updated our hiring policy to stipulate that we won't move into the final selection process until we have at least one candidate from a diverse background as one of our top 3 finalists.

We committed to reevaluating our website to more accurately reflect our values and more information on our DEI progress. This blog post is just the first step in that direction. Keep an eye out in early 2021 for our page outlining our values, our commitment to them, and our ongoing journey to work towards them.