Workforce Composition
Since February 2013, the Foundation has collected workforce data from grantees and consultants and uses this information to analyze the diversity of its partners and inform grant making. You can learn more about the Foundation’s commitment to promoting racial and ethnic equity and inclusion and access helpful tools and resources to that end here.
The race, ethnicity and gender categories used in the survey follow those that the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission requires employers to use for reporting purposes. The Foundation recognizes these categories may not be inclusive or consistent with how people identify themselves; however, they are the only uniform way in which employers collect and report data. The Foundation will continue to review and consider modifying or expanding these categories in the future. If your organization uses additional categories when collecting workforce data, you may include this information as an attachment at the end of the survey.
The Foundation asks that grantee and consultant organizations complete the workforce composition survey each year. We reset the survey requirement at the end of December. No matter when your organization submitted the survey (for example, in late November) your organization will have to submit again in the next year. Once your responses are recorded, your organization will not need to re-submit information on your workforce composition this year even if your workforce composition changes.
You can complete the survey by clicking on the link that appears in a banner at the top of each page in the portal. This banner alerts you that your organization has not completed the survey yet. You will not be able to submit new requests or reports until the survey has been completed.
If you do not see the banner requesting you complete the survey, then the survey has been completed for the current year.