RAISE Work and GWA are partnering to foster safe spaces for staff and customers. Through GWA, businesses can send their teams to free sexual harassment prevention training.

Participating members commit to training their leadership team and staff to respond to harassment incidents effectively. Our goal is to help spread awareness, education, and access to resources, while reducing instances of sexual harassment. We believe that this program will provide a path to creating more positive, respectful, and safe work environments within our community.

If you are a business owner, manager, or worker, you can register yourself and your team members for free trainings, which take place every month.

GWA partners with SPARK Equity in Action to connect local businesses to diversity, equity, and inclusion trainings, so that businesses can implement systems that help them recruit, hire, train, and retain diverse teams.

Diversity and inclusion matter for a wide variety of reasons, including that it is better for business, increases investment returns, lowers volatility, and drives innovation.

We want multiple viewpoints and perspectives in our businesses, because those help us attack problems from different angles. That’s what diversity is. It’s making an effort to find candidates from different backgrounds, different parts of the country or world, and people with different racial and ethnic origins.

Especially in the service industry, a diverse workforce can give you an idea of how diverse customers are treated or what sorts of services and products may resonate with a customer base that you hadn’t previously been targeting.

A diverse staff will broaden your customer base, because there is data that shows that customers like being in establishments where there are employees who look like them.