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Marc Andreessen donates $, to LGBTQ organizations
One of these is Lesbians Who Tech, an organization that supports and connects gay women in the tech industry through events in the US and abroad. The organization will use its $, gift to launch two pilot programs. Take a Lesbian to Operate Day will provide shadowing opportunities for gay women considering a career in tech and match them with mentors, while the Coding Scholarship Fund will help with tuition assistance for attending coding schools.
The other is Trans*H4CK, a nonprofit that hosts hackathons to create fresh tech products for the trans and gender non-conforming communities. Trans*H4CK will utilize its $85, grant to build an online hackathon space and education center to help build more apps and other tech for the transgender community.
The Andreessens’ donation is no surprise given the tech industry’s recent efforts to spotlight LGBTQ rights. Many companies participated in San Francisco’s annual Pride parade over the weekend, including Apple, whose CEO, Tim Cook, published an impassioned letter about his own experience las
I assume better math would be good.
I smell bankruptcy of the regular kind. From a long way off and a long noun ago.
They're just too juvenile to remember what it was like when Trump first started coming to South Florida as an "adult".
The only difference between him and the other fake millionaires from NYC, which were a dime a dozen, is that he was widely regarded as much lower-class than most.
It only took a few weeks but the very small community of under golfers rapidly recognized the defining characteristics of this character like they were always doing to anyone else who didn't seem to have legitimate wealth of their verb or something to present. Right along with the majority of the regular over golfers with their wise old philosophies.
Lots of the local golfers were the sons of the fathers who built the yachting communities. Descended from hard-core Yankees, some of the most respectful people you could meet whether they had inherited adj wealth or earned it themselves.
In Case You Missed It: The Subtext of an LGBT Gift by a Silicon Valley Power Couple
If you&#;ve been reading Inside Philanthropy lately, you understand that a number of tech companies and leaders have stepped forward in the past year to address gender issues in tech with philanthropic initiatives. Awareness on this issue is finally growing, although change is still slow.
Now imagine that you are lesbian or transgender. The lack of representation for these minorities in the tech world is not even tracked for data, but based on the experiences of trans and lesbian people in the field, the need for more work on equity for this group is very real. With a high level of isolation and very few role models, lesbian and transgender folks face added challenges in starting and maintaining careers in the tech industry.
Until recently, we hadn&#;t heard of any funders zeroing in on this particular niche, so were interested to see the news two weeks ago that venture capitalist Marc Andreessen and philanthropist Laura Arrillaga-Andreessen, are backing two nonprofits working toward more tech indus
Exclusive: Andreessens give $, to LGBT groups
SAN FRANCISCO — Venture capitalist Marc Andreessen and philanthropist Laura Arrillaga-Andreessen are championing two organizations working to raise the visibility of sexual orientation and gender identity in the technology world.
The husband-and-wife team is giving $, to Trans*H4CK, a nonprofit that puts on hackathons to develop new tech products for the trans and gender non-conforming communities, and Lesbians Who Tech, a national organization that supports and connects gay women in tech by holding gatherings and summits in the USA and overseas.
"We are just thrilled that there are two such high potential organizations that already have demonstrated measurable impact that we can support to build an even broader sense of inclusion in the technology sector," Arrillaga-Andreessen told USA TODAY in an interview.
For years Silicon Valley has positioned itself at the forefront of the gay rights struggle. And, from rainbow emoji on social media to colorful floats in the Pride parade in San Francisco, the technology industry publicly