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Learn Celebrating Martin Luther Rex 24-Hour Interval Past Times Giving Back

Today, Martin Luther King Day of Service inward the U.S., Googlers around the reason worked with community service organizations to lend a helping paw inward their surface area as well as commemorate the holiday.

The Black Googler Network (BGN), an employee resources grouping made upwards of volunteers, spearheaded this endeavor to ready service projects inward multiple offices. In the California Bay Area today, nosotros joined The Center for Music National Service inward the MLK Day of Service & Song inward various projects to beautify John O’Connell High School inward San Francisco’s Mission district. Projects included mural painting, landscaping as well as organizing books as well as materials, as well as the celebration included fourth dimension for students as well as volunteers to portion their fine art as well as vocalisation their feelings well-nigh the importance of the day.



In New York final week, nosotros teamed upwards with the Harlem Children’s Zone for a full-day workshop with college students to review their resumes as well as acquit mock interviews, aimed at supporting the organization’s destination of ending the wheel of generational poverty. And inward Ann Arbor, Mich., nosotros joined the Ann Arbor Community Center as well as University of Michigan students to serve hot meals as well as give out wintertime garments to homeless families inward need.

We’re proud of the ways Googlers came together to celebrate today as well as we’re committed to diverseness as well as cultural inclusion year-round, with a focus on closing the technology gap. Last year, our FUSE, CSSI, BOLD as well as BOLD Practicum summertime programs brought hundreds of students from culturally various backgrounds to Google offices worldwide for summertime internships. We hosted national pitch nighttime for The Technovation Challenge for girls. The BGN’s efforts to assistance minority as well as low-income communities included its annual BGN New Orleans Outreach Trip, as well as nosotros hosted speakers Condoleezza Rice, Alice Walker, Belva Davis as well as Soledad O’Brien with others. We convey fifty-fifty to a greater extent than plans for promoting diversity inward 2012.

If you’re interested inward volunteer opportunities inward your area, see mlkday.gov or allforgood.org.