2021 WeWork Boston Inclusion and Diversity Cohort

In 2017, The Boston Globe released a 7-part series spotlighting race in Boston, within which they highlighted a joint report from Duke University, The New School, and the Federal Reserve Bank of Boston detailing wealth disparities in Boston. One of the report’s key findings was that Black and Hispanic households, on average, have a “fraction of the net worth attributed to white households. While white households have a median wealth of $247,500, Dominicans and U.S. blacks have a median wealth of close to zero.”**
In 2018, WeWork Boston launched a comprehensive program focused on Inclusion and Diversity (I&D) based on these studies, which included its first I&D-focused Cohort in 2019. This cohort granted members a one-year hot desk membership to any WeWork Boston location.
On April 5, 2021, Boston’s Acting Mayor, Kim Janey, launched the “All Inclusive Boston” campaign to help stimulate tourism & hospitality and to improve Boston’s reputation as a city that is welcoming to everyone.
Through the Inclusion and Diversity Cohort which WeWork first launched in 2019, WeWork Boston aims to further empower current or aspiring business leaders from Black, LatinX, Asian American and Pacific Islander (AAPI), and Native American households in the Boston area to redefine the narrative of Boston as a city that is welcoming to everyone.

**Federal Reserve Bank of Boston. The Color of Wealth in Boston: A Joint Publication with Duke University and The New School. https://www.bostonfed.org/publications/one-time-pubs/color-of-wealth.aspx. Published March 2015. Accessed March 2021.

The Offer is open exclusively to businesses that meet all of the following eligibility criteria (the “Eligibility Criteria”):

(i) the primary member on the account identifies as a person of color and/or holds leadership in a senior or greater capacity for the company or organization applying;

(ii) can demonstrate that part of their mission and operation is aimed at positively impacting the Greater Boston Community or underserved communities of color;

(iii) whose primary location is in the Greater Boston area

(iv) can commit a minimum of 3 hours per month to scheduled events as part of the cohort

(v) is not a current member of WeWork

Applications will be reviewed by and selected by the Cohort committee at WeWork and vetted by the WeWork compliance team.

WeWork will perform a background check before accepting you into the program.  You will be notified via the email that you applied with the week of May 3rd.

The selected applicants will be emailed the week of May 3rd. With the kickoff call being on May 10th where all 14 cohort members will be introduced to each other, along with the details of programming.  

Full terms & conditions can be found here.