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3 nonprofits committed to empowering women in tech

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Here, a number of factors are at play, not the least of which are IT workplace cultures that have a long way to go. The program starts with six months of training and educational courses and followed by a paid internship to gain hands-on experience. Here are three of note. This amount of support really surprised me.

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NCWIT digitally transforms the DEI journey to help uplift women in IT

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For the National Center for Women & Information Technology (NCWIT), effecting change for women working in IT is a holistic endeavor. It lays out all the different areas that a team or organization needs to pay attention to in order to create a truly inclusive culture,” Ashcraft says.

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Per Scholas redefines IT hiring by diversifying the IT talent pipeline

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To do so, the organization collected retired computers and laptops from companies, fixed them up, and redistributed them back into the community through schools and nonprofits. He went into the community and offered people jobs, promising to train them how to repair the computers.

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Turning the tide in STEM career roadblocks at Synchrony

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While science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM) job opportunities have risen 79% over the past three decades, and are forecast to increase 11% more through 2030, women account for only 16% of those earning a bachelor’s degree in computer and information sciences, according to according to Women Tech Network.

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How Blacks in Technology Foundation is ‘stomping the divide’

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That blog quickly grew into Blacks in Technology (BIT) Foundation , a global organization working to “stomp the divide” in the tech industry. Today BIT includes a for-profit and a nonprofit side, each of which seeks to break down barriers, create opportunity, and diversify the tech talent pipeline.

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The ‘Great Retraining’: IT upskills for the future

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When the timing was right, Chavarin honed her skills to do training and coaching work and eventually got her first taste of technology as a member of Synchrony’s intelligent virtual assistant (IVA) team, writing human responses to the text-based questions posed to chatbots.

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17 professional organizations for Black IT pros

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While the onus of change rests in large part on employers to alter their approaches to hiring and inclusivity in the workplace, the following 17 professional organizations are dedicated to advancing the careers of Black IT pros and increasing Black representation in the tech industry through training, networking resources, and more.