69 The Hershey Company | 2021 ESG Report The Big Picture Our Company Cocoa Responsible Sourcing and Human Rights Environment Our People Youth Community About This Report Our People More Pathways to JOIN Pathways to JOIN is about changing the way we bring diverse representation into Hershey, with targets for recruitment and supplier diversity and powerful partnerships with educational institutions to grow tomorrow’s talent pool. Our Ambition In addition, we set a goal to achieve a college recruiting portfolio that is at least 50% • 50% diverse slate of candidates and diverse. To ensure we meet this, we added interviewers. 23 HBCUs and HSIs to our roster of universities • $400 million in spend with diverse businesses and schools that we recruit from. In 2021, throughout our supply chain by 2030. HBCUs and HSIs constituted 47% of our core universities/schools. Our Progress in 2021 To advance DEI beyond our workforce, we established a new supplier diversity goal to Our goal commits us to having a candidate slate increase our spend with diverse suppliers that is 50% diverse for every externally sourced to $400 million by 2030, helping promote role before we interview. In addition, we now economic equality and opportunity for diverse require our interview teams to consist of at 1 businesses. least 50% diverse employees. During 2021, we began to fully implement new practices to For more details about our supplier amplify diverse recruitment initiatives to meet diversity program, see page 70. these ambitions. For example, to aid in developing a diverse Going forward, our focus continues to be on candidate pipeline, we are expanding our eliminating barriers to employment to build a work with diverse-owned talent search firms, team and supply chain that is as diverse from setting a goal to have 30% of total search top to bottom as our consumer base. This is volume completed by such firms. We are more than an aspiration for us — it is a business extremely pleased to report that 41% of all talent imperative and a mandate from our CEO acquisition search volume in 2021 was led by Michele Buck. diverse-owned firms. 1 Diverse spend includes formal industry-recognized certification and self-certification, and Tier 1 and Tier 2 spend with U.S.-based suppliers. Diverse suppliers refers to businesses that are 51% owned, managed and controlled by women and/or Black, Hispanic, Asian, Indigenous, U.S. military veteran, LGBTQ+ and disabled persons, or other individuals that qualify as socio-economically disadvantaged.