People and culture Our racial equity commitments Driving equity in the community businesses and contractors and have begun in the US and creates opportunities for those $10 million to support Black-owned businesses: identifying suppliers to partner with. We recently returning home to prosper. Uber’s donations will We are committing to a $10 million investment from launched a Supplier Diversity website, where support the organizations’ missions by helping to 2020 through 2022 to advance the success of Black- prospective businesses can apply to be included in facilitate staff visits to clients and helping formerly owned small businesses by driving demand through our supplier diversity program. incarcerated people get necessary access to food promotions and other merchant support. In addition Double supplier spending with Black-owned and transportation. to our $10 million commitment to help Black-owned businesses: We’re strengthening and expanding our MDI Keeper’s Fund: We invested $50 million in businesses not only survive but thrive, we partnered supplier diversity program with the goal of doubling support of minority and underserved communities, with local nonprofits to establish a comprehensive spending with Black-owned businesses and committing $25 million to the MDI Keeper’s Fund financial education program to support Black contractors and have begun identifying suppliers (a privately sponsored investment fund) and restaurant owners. to partner with. We are well on our way to launching allocating another $25 million of unrestricted cash $0 delivery to Black-owned restaurants: In 2020, we a supplier diversity website, where prospective through deposits to qualifying minority depository successfully rolled out this initiative for Black-owned businesses can apply to be included in our supplier institutions, such as banks and credit unions that restaurants across the US from June 4 to December 31. diversity program. give underrepresented communities access to credit We achieved 3 million $0 delivery trips, and around Pledge for criminal justice reform: Uber and lending. 3,500 SMBs (small and medium businesses) renewed our commitment to support Voices for Rides to vaccines: We committed 10 million identified as Black-owned. We applied our learnings a Second Chance (VSC) and the Campaign for free or discounted rides to help make sure from this to further our impact within our $10 million the Fair Sentencing of Youth (CFSY). VSC offers that transportation is never a barrier to getting commitment to Black-owned businesses. comprehensive services to each of the 11,000 the vaccine. We launched this initiative in Double supplier spend with Black-owned minority individuals processed through the Washington, DC, partnership with the National Urban League, business enterprises: We’re strengthening and correctional system annually who need assistance, National Action Network, Morehouse School of expanding our supplier diversity program with and their families. CFSY is a national nonprofit Medicine, and LULAC—organizations with deep the goal of doubling spending with Black-owned that leads efforts to ban juvenile life without ties to the communities of color that have been parole and other extreme sentences for children disproportionately hurt by the pandemic. 2021 ESG Report 44