Wednesday, July 24, 2013

Digital Philanthropist



Let's take this campaign to the next level

Thank you for helping us reach our goal. Thank you for showing our daughters they are worth the investment. WE DID IT! We raised $100,000! This movement is really about the community and creating a radical change that will uplift generations to come. We are so incredibly honored and humbled that you share our vision... 
But we are NOT done, with 72 hours left to go in our campaign, we can make an even bigger impact if you'll join us in our new goal of raising: $125,000.

Help Black Girls CODE Grow

Our new goal of $125,000 will help us expand our effort, here's how: 
  • New Equipment - Our Tech Divas will need new equipment and gear for our mobile app development workshop during our 10-city tour. 
  • Chapter Support - We want to create strong chapters across the nation in Atlanta, the Bay Area, New York, Memphis, Chicago, Las Vegas, Detroit and DC area. Please help us fund these chapters so they can provide yearlong programs in their communities.
  • Grow our small team of 2 - Help us add an additional team member to our Black Girls CODE HQ Team so we can have support driving this movement. We have done a lot with our team of 2, imagine what we could do with an extra pair of hands. 
Help us eradicate the digital divide. Please continue spreading word about our campaign and help us reach our new goal so we can eradicate the digital divide.
Thank you,
Kimberly Bryant,
Black Girls CODE Founder
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We are Black Girls CODE, a nonprofit organization whose mission has transformed into a global movement to give women of color the tools to become inventors, leaders and creators of their own future in the world’s technology economy.  We are onto something big.

Since last year's Summer of CODE 2012, Black Girls CODE has received requests from over 80 cities around the world asking us to bring our workshop to their town. Summer of Code 2013 - The Remix is the first step in responding to this demand!

This is necessary, world-changing stuff!

"Girls, especially women of color, are summarily bypassed as far as being accepted as creative, and capable change agents in the tech industry. Black Girls Code was founded to redefine this dominant narrative, to make a radical and fundamental and lasting change in the technology industry.” - Kimberly Bryant at Personal Democracy Forum 2013
Over the next decade the U.S. economy will create 120,000 jobs that require computer science degrees, but American colleges will only produce 40,000 graduates with a bachelor's degree in computer science, that means we only have about 30% of graduates to fill these type of jobs. And although women currently make up 57% of undergraduate degrees, only 18% of women graduate with a computer science degree. For women of color these numbers are significantly lower. Black women make up 3% of students graduating with a computer science degree, Latinas and Native American make less than 1%
Do the math - we need to step up to train the next generation workforce. We need to prepare underrepresented populations to fill those positions, create technologies that serve their communities and lead us into a future that serves everyone. We can't afford as a nation to let a generation of students be left behind by the wave of innovation. If we want to succeed as a nation, we NEED your help to secure the future of these bright young minds. The world needs Black Girls who CODE!
We teach girls of color computer science, game design, engineering, robotics, and mobile application design. We're prioritizing girls of color because they're the people furthest behind and most in need. In other words, they represent massive potential.

Join Us & Invest in the future!

Donate, Share & Get 5 Friends to do the same
  • Tweet this campaign to your followers
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  • Shout it out to your neighbors
  • Host a small gathering in your community to raise funds for Summer of Code 2013 - The Remix!
  • Ask your company if they would support you in this cause through a Donor Match program. Contact future@blackgirlscode.com for more information. Subject Line "Donor Match."

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AWARDS & ACCOMPLISHMENTS

Women Deliver Pitch Finalist 2013 

2012 #DigitalSisters of the Year Empiristas


PRESS COVERAGE 

        
  

      


   

Together We Can #ChangeTheRatio

#1GirlAtATime



Although the digital divide is steadily eroding, tremendous barriers to entry in the technology field still remain for women of color.

Early access and exposure are essential to changing the status quo. Through a combination of workshops and field trips, Black Girls Code is providing girls with new skills in computer programming, introducing them to role models in the technology space, and building their confidence to become tech creators and entrepreneurs.


And we're having big fun along the way. Here are just a few of the events and programs we've been a part of since our launch. Plenty more are coming up, so stay tuned.

Your expertise and financial support will help us grow. 
 
 

Black Girls Code hosts our first bilingual workshop!

Black Girls CODE in partnership with the Latino Startup Alliance hosted our  first bilingual coding workshop on  Saturday, May 25th, 2013 with San Francisco community partner MEDA. There were over 70 girls in attendance from all over the bay area and more than 30 parents who participated in the parallel track of workshop on financial literacy, digital literacy, and a technology career panel.  The event was a major success and expanded Black Girls CODE to introduce young Latina women to coding and technology.  Thank you to GZ Photography for capturing the day in all of the many beautiful images.

*Photos courtesy of  GZ Photo.com

Kids in a Tech World: A Million Opportunities

Kids Social Website Rocket21 and Black Girls Code Form Alliance to Encourage STEM Careers

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 We did it again! 2013 Launch Party +Indiegogo Kickoff Event was a huge success.  Enjoy our pics.
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Beyond the Grey (The hidden economy)



  Beyond the Grey (The hidden economy)


Society continues to be perplexed by the constant dysfunctionality of economic instability, miseducation, and political propaganda spreading throughout the world like some deadly infectious disease. As the world continues to juggle the myriad of inherited frustrations and social ills one thing remains clear, nothing is by chance or coincidence. It is much easier to allow the distractions of social media and digital manipulation modules to sedate us into a zombi like condition, laboring aimlessly concentrating on isolated events while overlooking the interconnected causes that lead to the continuous cycle of devastation that swallows up the majority of society everyday. We’ve ignored the plethora of red flags that history has afforded us time and time again. The Great depressions, Slavery, Land grabbing, great dividers like race- and class, Economic bubbles, political corruption, advocates of greed over humanity, destruction of natural resources, military force, and immoral war crimes just to name a few. The questions we should be asking are why do we continue to allow these crimes against humanity to proceed? And who are the benefactors of this ongoing saga of destroy and rebuild?


There is a grey economy among us, a society that exist outside of what appears to be a government for the citizens and by the citizens. If the country is truely for the people and by the people, then who are those people honestly?  It doesn’t take a rocket scientist, a scholar, or a genus to figure out that what we are witnessing is not by accident. Every war, crisis, bubble bursting, and political mishap just might be a product of a deliberate result.

Why sure we could continue to buy into the rhetoric that the mass media, economic elite, and political puppets force feed our conscious or we could look beyond the surface and confront the grey. We need more dialogue, marches, mobilization, and organized action. Waiting on your local politician, leader, superman or any other hero is no longer an option.

Organize in your community, city, state, and country. Rally up like minded people via social network, school, work, and abroad. We must be the change agents and solutions to our problems. There is a hidden agenda sponsored by the grey area society to keep us distracted and divided. They will continue to use the media, technology, entertainment, and so much more to manipulate society. There are visible clues like using classism, racism, and sexism to create internalized division and develop biases within the hearts of humanity.  
 
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From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
A grey market or gray market, now known as the "Open Market" or parallel market,[1] is the trade of a commodity through distribution channels which, while legal, are unofficial, unauthorized, or unintended by the original manufacturer. The term gray economy, however, refers to workers being paid under the table, without paying income taxes or contributing to such public services as Social Security and Medicare.[2] It is sometimes referred to as the underground economy or "hidden economy."
The two main types of open markets are those of imported manufactured goods that would normally be unavailable or more expensive in a certain country and unissued securities that are not yet traded in official markets. Sometimes the term dark market is used to describe secretive, unregulated (though often technically legal) trading in commodity futures, notably crude oil in 2008.[3] This can be considered a third type of "open market" since it is legal, yet unregulated, and probably not intended or explicitly authorized by oil producers.







Divide and Conquer: The New Model Minority

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The fix is in, as they say. The announcement has been made. The ideological royal guard of racial stratification is standing at attention. There is a change of the guard in terms of the covenant title, (insert the sound of trumpets please), “Model Minority.” Previously I was swayed by the weight of a 2008 Journal of African American Studies article, “Race, Gender and Progress: Are Black American Women the New Model Minority?” by Amadu Jacky Kaba. This scholar asserts that Black females, despite the effects of slavery, gender discrimination, and racial oppression were slowly becoming the new model minority. Black females were described as replacing Eastern and Southern Asians upon the white pedestal for other minority groups to be in awe of.
Many do not know the term “model minority” was coined by sociologist William Peterson in a 1966 New York Times magazine essay entitled, “Success Story: Japanese American Style.” The piece made the argument that despite their experiences with historical marginalization, Asian Americans have attained “success” (whatever that means in this country), due to strong families, respect for education, and work ethic. In later years the media provided an array of articles and coverage that exhibited this point. In essence they were all nationally and internationally stressing the strength of the poignant question—“Why can’t Blacks get their act together?” The term by many is viewed as both racist and divisive. It was created by the White elite to serve as a way to downplay the effects of racism on Blacks while publicly blaming Blacks, the victim, for their own political, economic, and social status.
In my research, I have seen the trends of Black female graduation (high school, bachelors, and advanced degrees) increase while Black males have dropped. I have noticed the increase of Black females attaining corporate, medical, and legal jobs. I have also noticed the declining number of Black males entering the educational programs needed to attain these positions. I have seen the young Black male faces entering into a prison system that is plastered wall to wall with their image. The health and suicide rates fare no better. When taking this into account, I was not so sure the predicted change of guard would occur.
This was not until I became aware of the emerging research by Dudley Poston at Texas A&M, that points to China, which replaces Mexico (Mexican immigrants) as the new U.S. source for low wage workers coming to the US. He goes on to assert that the sentiment, legal maneuvers, and overall disdain targeting Mexican workers we have witnessed in the past few years will possibly be refocused on the replacing low-wage Asian worker. Due to this I feel that the outlook on Asians as the supposed “model” will cease to exist. They too will be blamed for the same issues Mexican workers are blamed for today. This will give way to a new champ to be elected in order to continue the divide between people of color, and at the same time sustaining the existing racist oppressive conditions that keep Blacks and Latinos down.
Unlike the application of the frame of Asian Americans, I feel that the ramifications of promoting Black females as the new model minority will not only negatively impact race relations, but the social relationship between Black males and females. What can we do? We know the social and psychological damage the previous model has done to world. Therefore there is no excuse. I challenge you as a scholar and/or citizen of social justice to push back. We have to point out what this divisive tactic is to the world—destructive.
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