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Corporate Grantmaking

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Check our Gender Inclusion Checklist. Our report identified eight building blocks that women and girls need to thrive in computing — we’ve outlined them all in this checklist. You can use this tool in discussions with grantees and in designing gender-diversity initiatives to ensure that programs are designed with the specific needs of women and girls in mind. Encourage the programs you support to thoughtfully transition young women smoothly from one experience to the next—and invest to fill any gaps between program offerings.

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Take stock of the CS entry points you’re investing in — and then diversify. The Rebooting Representation report from 2018 showed that companies concentrate 66% of their philanthropic funding on K-12 programs, compared to 3% on college-level programs. What can you do to invest in or engage with college-level opportunities?Alternatively, what can you do to support no-experience-required opportunities that provide critical on-ramps to students who develop a later interest in computing?

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Work with tech leadership to examine the impact of your CSR and philanthropic programs, using our Metrics Dashboard as a guide. Tracking your current investments and programs will greatly help your company’s (and the entire industry’s) ability to learn from and advance the approaches that are having the most impact.

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Tell leadership at your company about the Reboot Representation Tech Coalition. If you think your company should make a commitment to collective action that supports Black, Latina, and Native American women, don’t hesitate to get in touch or download our form letter that makes it easy to share more information about Reboot with your coworkers.

Check out key reading on gender and racial equity in tech

There are many resources you can turn to, and this list is not exhaustive, but these are good primer materials for learning more about the space:

  1. Rebooting Representation Report 
  2. NCWIT Intersectionality in Tech 101
  3. Othering & Belonging Institute: Women & STEM: It’s Not Just a Numbers Problem
  4. AAC&U: If Not Now, When? The Promise of STEM Intersectionality in the Twenty-First Century
  5. Emerald Insight: Navigating STEM-worlds: Applying a lens of intersectionality to the career identity development of underrepresented female students of color

You can also learn more about this issue by reading about other advocacy organizations working to increase representation in tech, like: 

  1. Kapor Center
  2. blackcomputeHER
  3. American Indian Science & Engineering Society (AISES)
  4. Computing Alliance of Hispanic-Serving Institutions (CAHSI)   
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