Red Ventures
Corprate Bias Ratings
Risk Level:
Summary:
Red Ventures and its subsidiaries have not publicly terminated employees or contracts due to views or beliefs, though the company does not protect employees from viewpoint discrimination. The company has a history of supporting various ideological causes, including involvement of youth in various LGBTQ+ practices and unconscious bias trainings in hiring. For these reasons, Red Ventures receives a Medium Risk rating.
Has denied service to customers, suppliers, or vendors due to their political views or religious beliefs OR corporately boycotts, divests, or sanctions regions, people groups, or industries.
There are no publicly known examples of Red Ventures firing employees or canceling contracts based on viewpoints.
Charitable giving (including employee matching programs) policies or practices discriminate against charitable organizations based on views or religious beliefs.
Red Ventures does not have a 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.
Red Ventures does not have a written policy to protect its employees from viewpoint discrimination (1).
Uses corporate reputation to support ideological causes and/or organizations hostile to freedom of expression.
Red Ventures CEO Ric Elias signed the CEO Action for Diversity and Inclusion pledge (1). The company implements trainings for hiring staff to mitigate unconscious bias when hiring (2). In 2021, Allconnect, Bankrate, CNET, and Lonely Planet have used their blogs to promote advocacy for the LGBTQ youth involvement (3)(4)(5)(6). Red Venture has used its platform to “educate” others on using inclusive language and pronouns in effort to promote allyship (7).
Uses corporate funds to advance ideological causes, organizations, or policies hostile to freedom of expression.
Red Ventures has not funded ideological groups hostile to freedom of expression.
Uses corporate political contributions for ideological, non-business purposes.
Red Ventures does not operate a PAC or publicly disclose its political contributions.
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August 10, 2023
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