[DC] Paid Training: Learn to code, be part of the social justice movement

[Olivia Chow]

Just the messenger who thought this looked cool. I don't have any additional info on the opportunity below. 

Olivia Chow

@livlylife

What is Code for Progress?

 

Code for Progress is a unique opportunity for that special, stand-out individual in your organization to develop a valuable technology skill-set and move more deeply into the professional social-justice movement.

 

The training involves a yearlong commitment, beginning with a 16-week residency in Washington DC - including a $3,000/month stipend - where participants will learn to code, work on a development team, and gain real-world experience by creating an application to meet the needs of a local social-justice organization. Participants spend the next eight months connected to the Code for Progress community through a short weekly call and ongoing mentor relationships.

 

The ideal applicant should have the desire to build and improve the social-justice movement by innovating new ways to communicate, organize, and mobilize. To help achieve the goals of engaging new ideas and creativity in the technology space, and helping expand the voices contributing the social-justice technology movement, applicants should also identify as LGBTQ, a person of color, a woman, as low income, undocumented, or with another community historically excluded from the tech industry.

 

How do candidates apply?

 

The application for the first training class can be found here. 

 

The deadline to complete an application is January 13, 2014. Click here for more information about the application process.