Brightwheel
Corprate Bias Ratings
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Summary:
Brightwheel is a software company that connects parents to childcare providers. Brightwheel has not terminated business relationships due to ideological differences. Brightwheel has published anti-bias and DEI curriculum suggestions for young children. Brightwheel also promotes celebrating LGBTQ identities and discussing LGBTQ topics with young children. Brightwheel does not protect against viewpoint discrimination. Brightwheel has not funded ideological groups hostile to freedom of expression. For these reasons, Brightwheel receives a Medium Risk rating.
Charitable giving (including employee matching programs) policies or practices discriminate against charitable organizations based on views or religious beliefs.
Brightwheel does not have a written rule discriminating against religious organizations in its charitable giving (1).
Employment policies fail to protect against discrimination based on political affiliation/views and/or religion.
Brightwheel does not publish an anti-discrimination statement aside from its Privacy Policy (1).
Uses corporate reputation to support ideological causes and/or organizations hostile to freedom of expression.
Brightwheel has published anti-bias curriculum suggestions for young children. This curriculum is intended to instruct children not to treat one another unfairly based on the following categories: Race, Religion, Gender identity, Sexual orientation, Language, Culture, Learning style, Socioeconomic status, Body type, and Disability (1). The goals of this training center around identity, diversity, justice, and activism. Brightwheel also wrote a blog post about promoting DEI within childhood education (2). The company also promotes celebrating Pride Month with children through teaching them the history of the LGBTQ movement and engaging in Pride Month activities like reading LGBTQ children’s books and “celebrating their own uniqueness” (3).
Uses corporate funds to advance ideological causes, organizations, or policies hostile to freedom of expression.
Brightwheel has not publicly funded ideological groups hostile to freedom of expression.
Uses corporate political contributions for ideological, non-business purposes.
Brightwheel does not operate a PAC.
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June 7, 2023
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