"Google is planning to spend $150 million to make its workforce more diverse", 6 May 2015

If there's one consistent complaint about Silicon Valley, it's that all the people working there tend to look remarkably similar...Google, one of the largest employers in the value, is planning to change that. The company is committing to spend $150 million in 2015 to recruit more women and minorities, according to an interview Google's vice president of people operations...The $150 million builds on the $115 million Google spent on its diversity efforts in 2014 and joins other companies including Intel and Apple which have also publicly committed money to programs aimed at recruiting non-white dudes.Those efforts will not only need to address ethnicity but also gender...[Also refers to Facebook, Kleiner Perkins, Microsoft, Reddit, Twitter]