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INKED is a South Asian community working towards bringing people together to strengthen and promote growth at Meraki by celebrating diverse traditions. With the recent events that have come to light, we want to stand by and show our support for the Black Lives Matter movement and we would like to reach out to all the Cisco members to help us raise funds for the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP). NAACP is a civil rights organization that fought for the abolition of segregation and discrimination the community faces in education, employment, etc, and continues to fight every day to ensure the black community gets to exercise their constitutional rights.

As a part of the July 22, 2020 Equity Action Plan update: "We have pre-qualified 26 racial justice and equity non-profit 501(c)3 organizations for our employee matching gift program". Here are all 26 of those pre-qualified organizations. I encourage you to research these organizations further to find which ones inspire you. You can click on a specific nonprofit, below, to donate directly to that organization. Alternatively, donating to this fund will help support all organizations at the same time. There is small link on the "Donate" Homepage that will lead to the WSI EAP Campaign, which also has these organizations listed. I had trouble locating this, so I hope this Fund will increase visibility and engagement.

Join in supporting Black@VMware’s #LivingHeritage campaign This fund was created to raise awareness and support for Black communities across the United States. Institutionalized and systemic racism means that Black people do not have the same opportunities as others and have longer “distance travelled” to get to the same places. We see this every day in lack of representation in universities and companies, to the senseless murders of Black people, in the streets, and in their own homes, and more recently how Black communities have been disproportionately impacted by COVID-19. In corporate settings, when it comes to the issues impacting Black communities, there is often no action and there continues to be silence. That silence is deafening, and it hurts. It hurts to not be acknowledged. It hurts to not receive the same level of support as your colleagues. It hurts to feel unsupported, unheard, and unseen. This campaign is one avenue for community and allies to acknowledge trauma, show solidarity, empathy, and show that you stand with us and you hear us. #LivingHeritage If you are not in a position to donate funds, here are other ways you can take action: - https://medium.com/equality-includes-you/what-white-people-can-do-for-racial-justice-f2d18b0e0234 - https://medium.com/awaken-blog/20-allyship-actions-for-asians-to-show-up-for-the-black-community-right-now-464e5689cf3e