Diversity at Yelp

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The COVID-19 pandemic has brought uncertainty and rapid change to our world. In a one-hour interactive webinar, our employees learned tips and strategies on coping while building resilience and fine-tuning adaptive skills, as well as pointers to help children cope and thrive. This webinar built on a series of events we hosted last year, featuring… Read more

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We teamed up with Veganuary to kick off 2021 with a new challenge, and inspire and support our employees on their vegan journey through January and beyond! We invited Yelp’s very own Nivi M to cook one of her favorite recipes for us. Nivi Mittal is the author of the cooking blog ModdyFoodieForLife. While not… Read more

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As part of our commitment to supporting Black-led and Black-serving organizations, we started to form lasting relationships with nonprofits beyond the monetary support provided by our employees and the Yelp Foundation. We want to continue to bring awareness about the work these organizations do and amplify the voices that drive meaningful change.  For one of… Read more

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We were determined to start the year off on the best possible note, so we brought experts in to discuss one of the most important topics related to a proactive and successful life: financial wellness.  Our Black community employee resource group, BlackBurst, sponsored a panel featuring experts from different areas, ensuring a discussion with a… Read more

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One silver lining from our virtual world is how quickly we can connect with each other!  Just because we all now work from our respective homes, doesn’t mean Yelp’s LGBTQ+ community can’t come together to educate each other, celebrate with each other, and discuss our unique experience. Here are some of the events that OutBurst… Read more

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2020 has been a tumultuous rollercoaster ride, and we want to thank our Yelp parents for all their hard work and dedication to both their family at home, as well as their work family.  Throughout this year we offered various resources to our Yelp parents to help them cope with everything that’s been added to… Read more

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A key part of the Yelp Foundation mission is to promote a culture of philanthropy among Yelp employees. Throughout 2020, we invited leaders of various nonprofit organizations to tell us more about the important work they’re doing.    Fireside Chat with Kathleen Foley-Hughes, founder of ADA’s Cafe: ‎‏In recognition of the 30th anniversary of the Americans… Read more

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In October, we invited NPR correspondent and book author Aarti Shahani to come talk to us about her memoir Here We Are. When her father was arrested, she became her family’s lawyer as a teenager and fought till age 30 to keep them together. That fight taught her about America’s broken justice system. But it… Read more

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In 2020, many of us have been re-acquainted with our kitchens, so we decided to offer our employees a series of virtual food and drink events:  Baking Bread with Hot Bread Kitchen: Bread baking has been one of the trends this year and so the Yelp team grabbed their rolling pins and aprons to bake… Read more

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Photo Credit: Anna Tarazevich (via Pexels.com) Whether it was cabin fever, a fight with the cat, or that we simply missed the way things were pre-COVID-19, many Yelp employees have been trying to balance their new work-from-home reality. Mental health was a major focus of our virtual event planning this year. When we talk about… Read more