Creating an impact

Yoast funds

Yoast Diversity Fund

We believe that encouraging diversity among conference speakers and attendees is incredibly important. That’s why the Yoast Diversity fund was born. Since 2018 till now:

• We were able to sponsor 158 people from underrepresented groups
• People joined a total of 103 events
• The events were all around Asia, Africa, North America, South America, Europe, and Australia.

If you want to know more, you can read about the Yoast Diversity fund here.

Yoast Care Fund

At Yoast, we value everybody contributing to WordPress, also known as WordPress’s hidden heroes! The Yoast Care fund rewards these people who are doing extraordinary work organizing events, providing support on the forums, writing patches for the core, or performing any other non-commercial WordPress-related tasks.

Do you know someone who goes the extra mile for WordPress? You can nominate them for a €500,- reward. Since we launched the Yoast Care fund, we’ve already rewarded 144 outstanding WordPress community members for their awesome contributions.

Yoast and charity

Local community

During the past 15 years, Yoast has paid special attention to supporting the local community around our Wijchen office. We might grow and become more and more international, but it’s important to cherish where we come from.

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“Thanks to Yoast, MHC Wijchen, and especially the youth teams, could not only enjoy hockey with sponsored t-shirts but also advanced training and even workshops from professional Dutch hockey players, for which we are very grateful.”

Daan Jansen – Sponsorcommissie MHC Wijchen

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What else?

We strongly believe in diversity, so we proudly sponsor COC Netherlands, the country’s oldest operating LGBTI organization, to help their work towards a more inclusive world where everyone can live up to their full potential, regardless of their sexual orientation or gender identity.

Furthermore, at Yoast, our employees get paid 40 hours per year to spend on charity work, like volunteering or social work – and they do amazing and inspiring initiatives like regularly donating blood (Anne Baukje), helping children’s first communion in the local church (Karin), or volunteering for WordPress Accessibility Day (Maarten)!

WIN & PRISM Affinity Groups

As part of the Newfold Digital Group, Yoast is delighted to participate in Newfold’s Affinity Groups and even helps organize regular events and informative sessions within Europe, and provides lots of fun and support for the community!

WIN

The mission of the Women in Newfold (WIN) Affinity Group is to cultivate a community of women across all functions in the organization that unite to inspire, support, mentor, educate, motivate, and develop each other through facilitated interactions and organized activities. Their vision is to be the primary resource within Newfold Digital for programs/activities, best practices, and opportunities for dialogue, education, and collaboration to advance the standing of women as leaders.

PRISM

PRISM@Newfold’s mission is to ensure an inclusive workplace and improve company reputation by representing Newfold LGBTQ+ employees and their families, advocating for positive policies, and promoting education, and to create connections between workers with similar experiences in a space where they may share freely and openly.