(Impossible Foods ERG)
IPACE (Impossible Parents and Caregivers ERG)
Mission
Established in 2022, the goal of IPACE is to advance Impossible Foods to become a destination employer for parents and caregivers, attracting and retaining employees who are parents/prospective parents/caregivers by providing access, education, support and a sense of community and serve as a partner and advocate to the People and Executive teams to create the best workplace for parents/ caregivers.
Pillars
Access and Education: Enable easier access to parent/ caregiver benefits, tools, and programs to empower & assist/enable working parents/ caregivers
Community & Support: Enable a stronger peer to peer working parent/ caregiver community to drive connections, support, and employee engagement
Advocacy & Policy: Drive partnership with ELT to advance Impossible Foods’ positions, policies, and culture to be best in class workplace for parents/ caregivers
Key Initiatives
Sponsored company-wide Family Day at our Redwood City headquarters
Hosted event with Habitat for Humanity where we assembled welcome home baskets and wrote cards to the families who recently moved into their new homes
Guest speaker Dr. Sarah Mitchell of Helping Babies Sleep(opens in a new tab) spoke to IF parents/ expecting parents on the science of infants/ toddler sleep and shared some best practices and advice for helping young children sleep
Co-sponsored the viewing of the documentary Mama Has a Mustache with PRIDE as part of Trans Awareness Week. This movie is a short animated documentary about identity and family outside of the traditional gender binary, as seen through children’s eyes