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| Formation | 2016 |
|---|---|
| Founder | Michelle Glauser |
| Founded at | founded in San Francisco, California, United States; remote since 2020 |
| Headquarters | Virtual (100% online) |
Staff | 6 |
| Website | https://techtonica.org/ |
Techtonica is a fiscally-sponsored nonprofit that provides software engineering training with stipends, laptops, mentoring, placements, and job search support. The organization’s mission is to help women and non-binary adults seeking economic empowerment overcome barriers into tech careers.[1]
Origin
[edit]After experiencing the empowerment of becoming a software engineer in San Francisco and the disappointing lack of diversity on technical teams, Michelle Glauser spearheaded the #ILookLikeAnEngineer ad campaign and began organizing coding workshops in the Tenderloin District of San Francisco in 2015 in order to reach a demographic that wasn’t being reached by existing coding classes. On April 28, 2016, she registered Techtonica as a fiscally-sponsored project of Social Good Fund (EIN: 46-1323531).[2]
Business Model
[edit]To start the first full-time cohort, Glauser raised $41,120 via crowdfunding campaign for Techtonica. Once a cohort was established, Techtonica then built tax-deductible hiring partnerships to fund the program and place graduates in paid technical roles.[3][4] Past hiring partners have included Pantheon, Redfin, Cisco Meraki, Stack Overflow, Indeed, Freenome, Survey Monkey, and Sony Interactive Entertainment.[5]
Additional funding is secured from individual donors, corporate donations, and grants. Corporate supporters have included Zendesk, Stripe, Beezwax, and New Relic.[5]
Since 2024, Techtonica also accepts consulting work for graduates to gain supervised, paid software consulting experience.[5]
Programs
[edit]Techtonica’s main full-time software engineering program generally runs from January to June and July to December, with placements or job search support occurring in the six months following training. Participants of the program are women and non-binary adults, mostly people of color, with low incomes. In the beginning, participants were also located in the San Francisco Bay Area, but the program expanded to reach people anywhere in the U.S. when it became virtual during the pandemic.[6]
With hands-on projects, pairing, and support from technical mentors and staff members, participants learn about many subjects, including HTML, CSS, JavaScript, React, Node, Express, version control, databases, testing, APIs, core career skills, debugging, interviewing, and deploying. The curriculum is open source.[7]
In 2023, due to the many layoffs facing software engineers, Techtonica started the Seeker Program to support graduates looking for jobs.[2]
Demographics & Impact
[edit]By December 2023, 111 people had graduated from Techtonica’s full-time software engineering program.[8] 88% of Techtonica graduates are BIPOC, 21% have a disability, 21% are parents, 10% identify outside the gender binary, and 1% are veterans. Most graduates have seen their incomes increase from pre-program levels three to five times.[6]
References
[edit]- ^ "Techtonica: Bridging the Tech Gap". techtonica.org. Retrieved 2024-11-11.
- ^ a b "Techtonica: Bridging the Tech Gap — FAQs". techtonica.org. Retrieved 2024-11-11.
- ^ The 74. "What's Keeping Girls From Translating 'Soft Skills' Superiority Into STEM Field Success?". Forbes. Retrieved 2024-11-11.
{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link) - ^ "How do we get more diversity in tech companies? Easy: Pay for it. - Upworthy". www.upworthy.com. Retrieved 2024-11-11.
- ^ a b c "Techtonica: Bridging the Tech Gap". techtonica.org. Retrieved 2024-11-11.
- ^ a b "Techtonica Full-Time Program". techtonica.org. Retrieved 2024-11-11.
- ^ Techtonica/curriculum, Techtonica, 2024-10-31, retrieved 2024-11-11
- ^ Techtonica (2023-12-20). 2023 H2 Graduation. Retrieved 2024-11-11 – via YouTube.
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