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3 nonprofits committed to empowering women in tech

CIO Business Intelligence

For IT organizations looking to make a difference on gender diversity, or for women seeking to develop rich IT careers, several nonprofits have been created to empower and uplift those who identify as women in IT, improving gender diversity in the industry, and closing the pay gap between men and women. Here are three of note.

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Ada Developers Academy: A no-cost career program that aims to diversify IT

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Mariya Burrows wanted to make a career change to software development after taking an introductory course on the topic, but the last thing she wanted to do was take out more student loans. Ada Developers Academy, founded in 2013, is a nonprofit coding school for women and gender-expansive adults — and it’s completely free.

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19 organizations advancing women in tech

CIO Business Intelligence

Today’s networking and advocacy landscape finds a growing array of programs and organizations for girls, women, and anyone who identifies as a woman — and plenty are also open to male allies. Girl Develop It. Girl Develop It offers web and software development courses at affordable rates in a “judgement-free zone.”

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Climate tech opportunities for IT pros

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In especially high demand are IT pros with software development, data science and machine learning skills. While crucial, if organizations are only monitoring environmental metrics, they are missing critical pieces of a comprehensive environmental, social, and governance (ESG) program and are unable to fully understand their impacts.

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Green Software Foundation: On a mission to decarbonize software

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Good coding practices for performance and efficiency have been part of software engineering since the earliest days. Computers that piggyback on vast libraries with extraneous lines of code, developers who have lost count of the number of virtual machines they have spun off — all add drag and increase the carbon emissions related to software.

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9 ways IT leaders can impact sustainability initiatives

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Many CIOs don’t know where to start,” says Brian Kirkland, CIO at Choice Hotels and founding board member for SustainableIT.org, a nonprofit launched to help create frameworks and standards around sustainability. CIO Wetmur is taking things a step further at Morgan Stanley with a more sustainable approach to application development.

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How BUiLT unites Black IT pros and builds equity

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Behaviors to exclude me would happen in corporate [workplaces] and even in nonprofits where I volunteered, and I wasn’t prepared for them coming.” After closing his software company during the pandemic, Beasley turned toward the nonprofit space, working with several organizations, serving on the board of directors.

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