Giving Compass' Take:
- Here are a few perspectives from the six-year partnership between BlackRock engineering department and Girls Who Code organization.
- How can these types of social impact partnerships have long-term results for social good?
- Learn more about improving CSR partnerships with nonprofits.
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At BlackRock we are encouraged, enabled, and recognized for social impact contributions including volunteering, donations, and grants. BlackRock’s social impact mission is to help more and more people, beyond the reach of BlackRock’s core business, achieve financial security and participate in sustainable prosperity.
In the technology organizations across BlackRock, we are also enabled to take this a step further, and work with non-profit organizations that are accelerating impact through technology. With a technical skillset, we have a responsibility to share our knowledge and help build the next generation of engineers.
Our social impact work in the tech space includes a number of partnerships we have with organizations across the globe such as the tech non-profit accelerator, Fast Forward, Big City Bright Future in London and of course, Girls Who Code.
Today, we are interviewing a few of our colleagues’ who work on our Girls Who Code partnership. Each summer, BlackRock hosts a Girls Who Code class in our NYC office and San Francisco office. For 2020, and now 2021, we have hosted these classes virtually.
Girls Who Code is a nonprofit organization which aims to support and increase the number of women in computer science by equipping young women with the necessary computing skills to pursue 21st century opportunities.
Read the full article about the Girls Who Code partnership by Alexis McKeown and Neeraj Goel at Medium.