Hack the Hood

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Learn web design! Gain fun and useful tech skills for FREE.

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We're going to the Essence Music Festival with the #YesWeCode Hackathon

At this year’s Essence Music Festival, New Orleans youth will join technologists, developers, designers and community leaders in a hackathon to build their own solutions for problems affecting their neighborhoods. Hack the Hood is one of several Oakland-based nonprofits to participate in the event, along with Black Girls Code, Hidden Genius Project, and Level Playing Field Institute, thanks to sponsorship from the Kapor Center for Social Impact and an invitation from Qeyno Labs and Rebuild the Dream, organizers of the #YesWeCode hackathon. [...]

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Diversity in the startup scene - 28 movers and shakers - ReferralCandy

“You can’t be what you can’t see.” Diversity is still an issue in the startup ecosystem. There are few women entrepreneurs, and disproportionately fewer black and Latino/a entrepreneurs. More worrying is the fact that there are just as few minority or female investors. And fewer minority investors mean that fewer minority-led entrepreneurs get funded. Diversity matters. [...]

Great list! Honored to be #15.

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The Ambitious Plan to Teach 100,000 Poor Kids to Code - TIME

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LAST DAY TO VOTE! Don't miss this huge opportunity to diversify the tech landscape. If not projects like Hack the Hood, than how? THANK YOU ALL FOR THE SUPPORT!

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Hack the Hood is part of a movement -- roots in Oakland, but an influence felt way past our town's borders. Let's diversify tech! FOUR MORE DAYS TO VOTE http://bit.ly/1nxO4Eh

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Small businesses invest in their communities and create more jobs than chains-- but they need our support! http://goo.gl/4YvxmO NOW for a better Bay Area.

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5 Days Left! Support small business, youth job training, & diversity in tech.bit.ly/VoteHTH now! 

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You decide if Hack the Hood is selected to win $500,000 from Google. Our mission is to close the digital divide and boost small businesses. Have you voted yet?

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Be sure to get that vote out by June 2nd! We’re going for the Google Bay Area Impact Challenge! VOTE HACK THE HOOD

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Our star mentor from the video tells the world why to Hack the Hood,HACHACHaksdjfl;aksdjf How ‘bout you? http://bit.ly/1hdrg4y 

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Hack the Hood boosts young people's confidence, gives them an extremely valuable skill set, and provides them with work experience. It increases visibility of small businesses online and boosts the local economy. Here are 10 ways you can help HTH lift up the Bay Area: http://bit.ly/HelpHTH

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Can we change the world by changing who does tech  bit.ly/VoteHTH

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Why We Hack The Hood

People aren't numbers, but numbers can tell stories about people. For example:

Less than 10% of Silicon Valley's technical staff are African American or Latino.

Almost HALF of Latinos and African Americans in Oakland USD drop out.

58% of small businesses aren't online, and minority-owned businesses are least likely to have a website.

Only about 34% of the revenue from national chains is reinvested into the community, compared to the 65% return from local businesses.

Hack the Hood was created to bring these groups together to help solve all four problems.

We engage Bay Area tech professionals to mentor low-income youth of color in web development skills so they start a career by building sites for small local businesses, helping customers find and buy local, keeping money circulating in the local economy to supports more jobs for everyone.

Win-Win-Win-Win

We need your help!

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10 ways you can help us get out the vote!! http://bit.ly/HelpHTH

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“This is the first website I’ve made, like from scratch... It’s like a whole new thing I can put on my resume.”