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By Pia Wüstenhöfer, Senior Supervisor, Account Operations
Our Yahoo employees never fail to go the extra mile with hard work and generosity. Yahoos in Dublin raised a whopping €40,000 (that’s $44,960) for ChildVision, Yahoo’s preferred charity for 2016. ChildVision is an organization dedicated to the support and education of blind and multi-disabled children. Being the only school of its kind in Ireland, it doesn’t get the state funding it needs to provide the desired level of care to those who need their help. That’s where our employees stepped in!
Ours teams in Dublin set out to support ChildVision to increase exposure and provide donations to fund improvements for those in their care. Through various office events, including “sumo wrestling your manager” and surprising your valentine, our fun-loving employees had a blast raising awareness for the cause.
A massive thank you to everyone who’s supported this organization and thanks to our Dublin employees for providing this donation!
June is recognized globally as a time of reflection and celebration for the LGBTQ community. Every year, Pride celebrations are held around the world to commemorate the Stonewall Riots in New York, the anniversary of the Supreme Court case of Obergefell v. Hodges, and individuals such as Harvey Milk and Audrey Lorde who helped pave the way for LGBTQ rights. This month, we encourage you to take a moment to remember those who took a stand for equality and join those who are still fighting for LGBTQ rights. The fight for equality is not something of the past, but the responsibility of those living in the present.
Here at Yahoo, we’re recognizing these individuals and milestones by celebrating all month long with our Yahoo Pride Employee Resource Group (ERG) and by leveraging the power of our products and network to drive inclusivity. Here’s just some what we have planned:
Yahoo Mail: Share your Pride with family and friends all month long by using our Pride-themed stationery
Yahoo Homepage: During Pride weekend, June 23 – 25, our Yahoo Homepage will commemorate this important time, highlighting our continued commitment to diversity
Yahoo Billboard: If you’re driving north into San Francisco, CA on Interstate 80, take a look at our iconic billboard, which will be painted rainbow in celebration with messages of encouragement
Yahoo is committed to making our company a best place to work for the LGBTQ community and has been recognized for the past 10 years by the Human Rights Campaign’s Corporate Equality Index, scoring a perfect 100 each time. With the help of our ERG, we strive to maintain a strong culture of diversity and equality by building a safe workplace. We continually educate our employees on LGBTQ rights to ensure our employees can always feel proud of who they are. Happy Pride Month to all of our users and our employees!
If you’ve ever flipped through Netflix, browsed Amazon or ordered a pizza from your TV, you’ve got Ron Jacoby to thank. But before you do, you have to meet him first! Find out how he changed the way we watch tv, what the biggest events he’s helped orchestrate are and why he was such a key player in Yahoo’s video integration in the early 2000’s.
Yahoo News national correspondent Holly Bailey is primarily a writer and reporter, but as of this week she can add “award-winning photographer” to her resume. On Monday night she was honored with a Deadline Club Award in the Feature Photo category for “Donald Trump’s America,” her original series on Yahoo News.
As Holly traveled the country over the last year chronicling Donald Trump’s presidential campaign, she found herself pulling out her phone at odd moments between speeches and rallies, and training it less often on the candidate himself than on the people and props that were the backdrop to his stunning ascent. Holly captured these images without judgment or irony, and served them up to us as a compelling album of an unprecedented year in American history.
Holly, who used just an iPhone as her camera, was competing for the Deadline Award against career photographers with the latest professional equipment, making this achievement even more remarkable.
The Deadline Club, founded in New York City in 1925, is the nation’s largest chapter of the Society of Professional Journalists. Their prestigious awards program received more than 500 entries this year from New York metropolitan area news outlets large and small, spanning traditional, digital, and nonprofit.
We’ve long been proud to feature Holly’s writing on our site (did I mention she’s also an award-winning author?) and we’re thrilled to see these amazing photos recognized. Who knows what talent she’ll uncover next.
By Jacqie Leise, Sr Mgr, Account Operations, Yahoo
It’s amazing to see Yahoo and Habitat for Humanity team up for such an important project in our area. I am thrilled to work for a company that is willing to give back to the community in such a personal way. It’s truly amazing to see everyone in our community come together.
The old adage ‘it takes a village’ is alive and well here in Omaha. Today, Omaha’s Habitat for Humanity hosted a 24-hour online charitable challenge for the metro area, which included a special “Sign a Stud” event at the Yahoo office.
The day’s charitable event represented a great cause for our communities in greater Omaha, but our Yahoo event was the culmination of something even more special to me, my family and the Yahoo community.
A fatal natural gas explosion in July 2016 destroyed a rental home owned by my husband and me, and sadly took the life of 30-year-old Omaha property inspector Clara Bender-Rinehart. It was a tragic and horrible accident that left us wondering how we were going to move on and how we could possibly help the neighborhood clean up their homes.
We knew that donating this property to a deserving family would help facilitate a positive outcome in the wake of such tragedy. It was our partnership with Habitat for Humanity that helped turn this idea into a reality. Habitat Omaha quickly provided the resources and organizational support to start reconstruction on the property.
While working with Habitat, we learned that the Yahoo Employee Foundation (YEF) had decided to grant $75,000 to Habitat for Humanity of Omaha. YEF is a grassroots, philanthropic organization that provides Yahoo employees easy and accessible ways to give back to their communities. Since 1999, YEF has granted more than $20 million in more than 1,000 grants to hundreds of organizations globally. We immediately requested that these funds be used to rebuild on our property.
We’re happy to report that construction will begin in September, and, to kick this off, Habitat Omaha and Yahoo’s Omaha office hosted a “Sign a Stud” event today to help raise additional funding and awareness of the effort to rebuild the block that was devastated by the gas explosion. Yahoo employees had the opportunity to sign their name on a 2x4 stud that will be used in the construction of the house and were also invited to participate in rebuilding the property through a volunteer day this fall.
Mike Shebanek, Yahoo Senior Director of Accessibility
I’m very excited to share that Teach Access, an initiative to include accessibility and universal design principles in the curricula of computer scientists, designers and researchers in undergraduate, graduate and continuing education, has won the Knowbility, Inc. award for Educational Achievement! Yahoo is a founding member of the project.
Teach Access was created by a coalition of tech companies, universities and advocates for people with disabilities. Its mission is to expand awareness and knowledge of accessible technology development in higher education through approaches such as faculty bootcamps, guest lectures, internships, challenge grants for research and curriculum development and industry partnerships. Teach Access also builds open source online learning tools that reflect and teach accessibility best practices. The tools are widely available to individuals, companies and organizations. In addition, Teach Access has developed job descriptions that include preference for accessibility knowledge to support recruitment activities and to extend the post-secondary foundation through “on the job training” in product and service development.
Image: Knowbility Award. Inscription reads Knowbility is pleased to recognize Teach Access for Educational Achievement for creating and promoting an initiative to include accessibility and universal design principles in college and university curricula. 2017 Community Heroes of Accessibility Awards.
This is an extremely proud moment for Teach Access and its members and supporters as we continue our pursuit to bring accessible design and development skills into college classrooms.
We have new folks joining Yahoo every week, eager to participate in our awesome company culture. In the latest edition of Why Yahoo, meet some of our new hires and hear what they love most about the ‘Hoo!
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