We will use this information to ensure we are funding organizations with the deep community trust required to achieve their goals.
We will also invite nonprofits to share how they incorporate lived experience into their own work. To better understand the profile of leaders and clients of organizations and to evaluate our commitment to equity, we will request disaggregated demographic data as part of our grant request process. Grantmaking: We will assess how organizations include the voice of the community in the issue they seek to address. We fought through our discomfort with the discovery to more deeply understand the findings and their implications.īased on the audit results and feedback provided by grantees and community leaders, we have taken initial steps to evolve our work including: Surfacing from the report was the need to center community-informed voices in our work and the concern that the majority of our grantee organizations interacting with communities of color are led by white executives. One component of our Equity Audit was a survey of recent grantees (thanks to all who participated!) to gather information about their organization and recommendations on how we might improve our programs and practices. We are fortunate to represent Applied Materials in our communities and understand the responsibility that comes with the role. We worked individually and as a team to expand our world view to recognize and combat bias and support equity. The goal was to identify and proactively address unintentional barriers arising from bias, norms or systemic structures.Īs a group of primarily white-presenting women, we dedicated time to listening, learning and reflecting on issues of equity, prejudice, power and privilege. We teamed with Frontline Solutions, a Black-owned consulting firm dedicated to making the world more just for all, to conduct an Equity Audit examining our personal beliefs as well as our work’s programs and practices. We are proud of this tradition and in the wake of the renewed racial justice movement in 2020, the Applied Materials Community Affairs team embarked on a year-long journey to evaluate our U.S.-based work in communities of color-communities that have too often been marginalized, systemically oppressed and silenced. Our Company and its Foundation have a long history of philanthropic engagement based on Applied’s core value of Responsibility & Integrity with an emphasis on making a positive social contribution in communities where our employees work and live. Our commitment is to be responsive to these voices supporting efforts that address societal imbalances and provide access to resources and opportunities for local residents. We believe that communities hold the knowledge to create solutions that build and support resilient, thriving neighborhoods and families.
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