The organization, also known as ASC, said this is the largest single donation since its founding in 2013. The organization plans to use the grant award to scale its web development and leadership training programs for young minority men. ASC runs a free, six-week education program over the summer that’s supported by leading tech companies including Google and AT&T. Its “Summer Intensive” program – held in NYC and Pittsburgh – helps teach students about entrepreneurship, game design, computer science and web development over six weeks — for free. The donation
I love mission-driven jobs. In fact, I’m borderline addicted to them. My whole career has been in the nonprofit sector because I want to spend every ounce of my working life on missions I believe in. And yet, as a leader and a coach in the nonprofit sector, and someone who cares deeply about gender parity and race equity at work, I know that for lots of us — and especially women of color — our passion for the work we do sometimes makes us vulnerable to inequitable pay scales
When Darrell D. Williams (aka “Dr. Tariq”) teaches coding to other prisoners in California’s Lancaster State Prison, he doesn’t deploy traditional equipment like a laptop, or PowerPoint slides.He uses a blackboard —used to teach HTML, CSS, website design languages—and mobile app development. Let Us Code Classroom uses coding textbooks as an entry point into computer literacy, website design, and discussions about Silicon Valley, computer programming careers and becoming a tech entrepreneur after prisoners are released. Each coding lesson is centered upon learning to code to turn one’s life around from
