SharePoint Sites Amplify Diversity & Inclusion Efforts

Challenge

A global pharmaceutical company needed an online forum where its Business Resource Groups (BRGs) could share national and local chapter-level information, resources, and events.  They also wanted to pull through select event information to their existing D&I North America SharePoint site.

Actions

• SPI Group set up a new D&I North America SharePoint hub site, nine BRG hub sites and 80+ Chapter Team sites
• The sites were templated to bring uniformity to the user experience but also honored the branding that was unique to each BRG
• A custom calendar webpart was built that allowed the D&I North America site to automatically pull in BRG National events and calendars on each of the BRG National sites were able to display their events as well as automatically pull in Chapter level events
• Created a new Membership Form that allowed users to sign up for National and local Chapters of BRGs in one pass with all sign ups being captured in a database to facilitate easy communications with members