Building a Sense of Belonging
We embrace DEI and belonging across all levels of our business—from employees, to suppliers, to community partners, to our clients. We champion a multi-dimensional workforce that brings valuable perspectives and backgrounds to our organization. We foster cross-departmental collaboration and encourage everyone to voice their ideas and make a difference. We have established respectful work environment where all are valued, included, and empowered.
Diverse Suppliers Program
William Charles is committed to providing subcontracting and vendor opportunities to disadvantaged, minority-owned, women-owned, veteran-owned and small business enterprises on all of our projects. The goal of our diversity participation program is to empower these organizations in every community in which we work, educate them on construction opportunities available and ensure their businesses perform a commercially useful function, thus they can grow in the construction industry.
Complete our subcontractor pre-qualification form:
Women & Minorities Scholarship Program
William Charles, in conjunction with IEA, created the Women and Minorities Scholarship. The goal is to support and promote the advancement of underrepresented populations in the construction industry. William Charles seeks to support the development of a diverse and inclusive engineering and construction management workforce by providing funding to students from underrepresented populations in engineering and construction management fields. The fund is used to provide undergraduate scholarship awards for full-time sophomore-, junior- or senior-year students who are enrolled in college majoring in Civil, Electrical, Environmental Engineering, Construction Management or Safety.
Affiliations
- HACIA - Hispanic American Construction Industry Association
- FWC - Federation of Women Contractors
- ILHCC - IL Hispanic Chamber of Commerce
- IL Black Chamber of Commerce
- ACCA - American Contract Compliance Association
- CIECI - Construction Industry Ethics & Compliance Initiative
- US Minority Contractor Association
- National Association of Women in Construction
- Nevada Latin Chamber of Commerce
- Black Contractors Owners Executive
- Utah Latin Chamber of Commerce
- Las Vegas Urban League
- IL RBA - DBE/EEO Committee
Awards
- 2016 – Tollway DBE Advocacy Award
- 2018 – IDOT Above and Beyond Award
- 2020 – IDOT Above and Beyond Award