YIKES, Inc. Wins 2018 PNC LGBT Business Award

May 9, 2018 Tracy Levesque

YIKES, Inc. won this year’s PNC Bank LGBT Business Award presented at the Independence Business Alliance Annual Business Leaders Luncheon.

YIKES will use the $10,000 award to further development of its Level Playing Field WordPress plugin that anonymizes job applications to fight bias in employment, thereby promoting true merit-based hiring.

PNC Bank LGBT Business Award

Level Playing Field is the first plugin of it’s kind and puts the Equal Opportunity Employment conversation to the test. Every day, countless qualified job-applicants are filtered out of the hiring process due to unconscious bias. In terms of the hiring process, bias works two ways: it can (1) cause an employer to overlook a qualified job applicant or (2) cause a qualified job applicant to overlook a position in fear that they may be discriminated against.

As a socially conscious business, we have long standing commitment to creating positive social change and impact. Level Playing Field is one way we can continue to champion diversity and inclusion which is a fundamental part of our business mission and who who we are as people.
Mia Levesque

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YIKES has been exceptionally easy to work with. They took time to carefully understand what we were trying to accomplish and then tailor fit a solution to meet our needs. They have been responsive and attentive to our organization’s concerns and requests throughout our website migration process.
Mark Sandblade
Library System of Lancaster County

From our very first proposal request through the website launch and ongoing maintenance, the YIKES team was super responsive to our questions and totally transparent about the process. The time they spent getting to know Decibel, our brand and our culture is completely evident in the finished product, which is exactly what we wanted – a clean, navigable, user-friendly and unique website to which we are proud to direct our readers.
Alex Yarde
Decibel Magazine

YIKES, Inc. helped us by building our Philly Geek Awards website. We wanted to work with them based on their involvement in the local tech community and familiarity with our WordPress platform. They’ve been understanding of our needs and great to work with.
Mikey Illagan
Geekadelphia and Philly Geek Awards

YIKES’ commitment to social responsibility makes them great partners for any non-profit trying to improve their social impact through their online presence.
Mark Sandblade
Library System of Lancaster County

YIKES did a great job overhauling, rebuilding & improving our website, particularly given the extremely short timeframe we had. They were very professional, helpful, and informative; they are definitely leaders in their field. They offered training to make sure we were self-sufficient, and have answered any question we’ve had since the site went live. The site functions well and we are thrilled with their design, execution, and the plug-ins they developed & implemented on the site. Highly recommended.
Mica Denise McCullough
The Alliance for Watershed Education of the Delaware River

We love you so much. Thank you for taking care of us all these years. You are beautiful people making beautiful websites.
Emily Smith
Philadelphia’s Magic Gardens

We loved working with the Yikes team. They exceeded our expectations at every step of the process and we are proud of the final result. They are absolute masters of their craft and they approached their work with a genuine enthusiasm and commitment to client service that made for a highly productive and enjoyable experience for my partners and me.
Daniel F. Ryan
Milestone Partners

Not only does the team at YIKES have a keen eye for design, I am pretty sure they are magicians. Magic is real, and YIKES proves it. We came to the folks at YIKES with a project others said was impossible. Not only did they make it happen on time; everyone at YIKES was respectful, fun to work with, and pros at making the technical aspects easy to understand for everyone on our team. If you’re lucky enough to have found YIKES, look no further, you’re in good hands.
Alan Chelak
PAT @ Giovanni's Room

We hired YIKES to redesign and build our complex website including a secure, members-only section as well as a very large and frequently updated employment service section. YIKES exceeded our expectations with development and design. Our members are very happy with the new look and ease of use, and our staff finds the website easy to navigate and update. Working with the YIKES team was and continues to be a pleasure, they respond quickly to any questions we have and help find solutions fast. I feel like we not only hired a website developer but found a partner in the process.
Laurie Pinho
Central Conference of American Rabbis

I’m a huge fan of Yikes. They reliably deliver great work and are a fantastic group of people to collaborate with. We’ve turned to them to develop sales sponsorship executions, a brand-new product and a publishing site redesign – all for Penske Media’s highest-profile entertainment brands. Each was a success with our creative, business and technical teams thrilled with the results. As the Director of Product Management, I appreciate how easy their team is to communicate with and how they can adapt their development process to serve goals of the project. And, of course, their technical excellence.
Derek Ramsay
Penske Media Corporation