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Black Girls Code is a nonprofit organization that empowers Black girls and women ages 7-25 to pursue careers in tech by providing them with hands-on coding and tech workshops. Through project-based learning, girls learn skills like mobile app development, robotics, and web design. Black Girls Code also partners with companies and brands to expose girls to tech careers and provide them with special experiences. In addition to its workshops and programs, Black Girls Code also provides girls with access to mentors, role models, and a supportive community.

Girls Who Code (GWC) is an international nonprofit working to close the sizable gender gap in technology fields. Through its immersive coding programs and clubs. Girls Who Code provides computer science education and tech skills training to girls ages 10-18 around the world. Girls Who Code offers after-school programs and summer coding camps to help girls learn in-demand programming languages and build momentum in their computer science education.   GWC pairs coding lessons with sessions focused on bravery, resilience, and sisterhood to empower girls to persist and thrive in male-dominated tech spaces. 

TechGirls is a U.S. based summer exchange program designed to empower and support teen girls ages 15-17, encouraging them to pursue higher education and careers in STEM fields. Through an intensive six-week program, participants engage in hands-on STEM learning, develop their leadership and technical skills, and build networks with other girls, women in STEM, and mentors. TechGirls also provides hands-on STEM workshops and activities at leading tech companies and universities. The TechGirls program is an important initiative that helps to empower teen girls in STEM fields and to build a more inclusive and diverse tech workforce.

W.TEC Academy in Nigeria is an after-school technology club program for girls in public schools. The program offers a practical curriculum focused on coding, programming, and app development. The goal of the program is to get girls interested in technology and to complement the theoretical classroom teaching they receive. The W.TEC Academy program provides girls with the skills and knowledge they need to succeed in the tech industry, and it helps to create a more inclusive and diverse tech workforce.

Grow With Google:  Black Women Lead, was a project to train 100,000 Black women in digital skills by 2022.  As with BGC and W.TECH, Grow With Google:  Black Women Lead partnered with other organizations in order to fulfill it mission, specifically, The Links, Inc., Dress for Success, and four sororities of the National Pan-Hellenic Council.

The Global Fund for Women (GFW) is a nonprofit organization that supports groups using technology to address gender equality issues such as violence, health, and empowerment. The Global Fund for Women focuses on women's digital access and skills utilizing available forms of technology to advance womens rights and create a more just and equitable world.  GFW supports a wide range of initiatives such as  coding and web design,  developing the skills women need to participate in the digital economy and to create their own online businesses, as well as providing funding for women-led tech initiatives.

TechWomen is a U.S. government exchange program that empowers emerging women leaders in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) fields from Africa, Central and South Asia, and the Middle East. Through mentorship and exchange, TechWomen strengthens participant professional capacity, increases mutual understanding between key networks of professionals, and expands girls' interests in STEM careers by exposing them to female role models. The TechWomen program is an important initiative that helps to empower women in STEM fields and to build a more inclusive and diverse tech workforce.

Generation 17 harnesses the power of technology to connect and empower young women from around the world to become leaders, entrepreneurs, and innovators. It provides women with the skills, resources, and networks they need to amplify their impact and create positive change in their communities. Generation 17 is also a United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) initiative.  UNDP is on the ground in 170 countries and territories, working with governments organizations, and individuals on solutions to global and national development challenges. The UNDP is a global development network that advocates for change and connecting countries to knowledge, experience and resources to help people build a better life.

La Bastilla Technical Agricultural School in Nicaragua bridges the gap between education and employment by embedding small business within its vocational training program. Students gain technical skills and business experience by operating real small businesses on campus. This hands-on entrepreneurial learning allows students to put classroom lessons into practice, developing practical job skills while still in school. By combining technical training with actual business operation, La Bastilla prepares students for the real-world challenges of the Nicaraguan economy.

M-Shule (Kenya) is a personalized learning platform that sends tailored daily lessons and assessments to students via Short Message Service (SMS) (Wikipedia, 2023), with the goal of improving learning outcomes, especially for girls. M-Shule leverages SMS-based personalized learning to enhance learning outcomes for girls in Kenya, while also researching how to optimize message content and design to further support girls' learning and engage caregivers.  Tailoring content to individual needs, M-Shule sends personalized SMS messages to help girls learn and succeed.