SurveyMonkey, joined by 15 technology companies, including online staffing platform Upwork, announced an initiative to track diversity representation at their vendors.

The initiative will use a survey to track representation of women, racial minorities and LGBTQ individuals within a vendor’s employee base, leadership team and board. It will evaluate vendors’ use of inclusive practices for recruiting, retaining and advancing members of these groups.

The goal is to look beyond whether a company is owned by diverse individuals.

“Improving diversity, equity and inclusion is an industrywide challenge for the technology sector,” SurveyMonkey CEO Zander Lurie said. “We have work to do within our own businesses to become anti-racist. We also want to help upend the systemic bias we know still exists in the broader business community.”

Vendor groups include technology services suppliers, law firms, food suppliers, landlords, marketing agencies, investment banks and auditors.

Tech firms taking part in the initiative plan to lay the groundwork within the next 30 days for collection of data on diversity and inclusion.

The companies will also collaborate to develop best practices and push for change in the broader business community.

In addition to SurveyMonkey and Upwork, technology firms taking part in the initiative are 23andMe, Age of Learning (creator of ABCmouse), Box, Chime, Eventbrite, Genesys, Headspace, Intuit, Leaf Group, PagerDuty, Slack, Tile, Tinder and Zoom.

The program was created in collaboration with social impact consultancy The Justice Collective, which will continue to provide support to participating companies and vendors. The Justice Collective is 100% woman-of-color owned and was founded in Oakland, California.