Sponsorships and Donations
Foremost: thank you to everyone who has contributed thus far and continues to support our mission. Your support is what makes it possible to bring these critical services to our local community. As a 501-3c non-profit, your contributions are tax-exempt.
The Impact of Your Support
Supporting any of our training programs helps us to create apprenticeships and to develop career training for aspiring software developers within our local community.1 Your support directly translates to monthly training programs. For every $2400 of funding, 30 members of our community receive career-changing courses every month. Programs like ours are one of the best ways to directly lower inequality in your community.
We primarily serve our neighbors in low income households; those for whom traditional pathways to a career in the tech industry are inaccessible. All citizens of our Oakland community are welcome.
Programs You Can Support
- Apprentice Training Program: This is an end-to-end training from Novice to entry level full-time role as an Apprentice Software Developer.
- Tech Literacy Program: Community workshops to help local entrepreneurs, small businesses and ordinary citizens learn about technology.
- Specialty Training: Cyber Security, A.I., Game Development ...specialty training supports the careers of local junior developers.
- Youth Programs: Primarily organized during school breaks or after school for youth ages 12+ to engage and inspire them pursue careers in science, technology, engineering and math (STEM)!
These programs are in addition to our regular monthly workshops, where we provide information to the community at large to keep everyone informed about the state of the tech industry and career prep sessions.
We provide all equipment for all programs, as well as mentoring and career counseling. Your contributions go a long way, no matter how small.
How to Become a Sponsor
The firs step is to call or plan a visit to our office. We'll help you identify current programs that you'd like to show your support for and you'll receive our sponsor package to show our thanks for your support! Sponsors can opt to be prominently displayed on our website and publicly available materials, or to remain private.
The most direct way to support our programs is to make a contribution to Programmers Guild by scanning the code. For questions you can call, visit or email us and we'd be happy to talk with you about our work and the impact of your support. We love meeting all supporters and members of the local community!
Why You Should Become a Sponsor
The key to safe and prosperous communities is supporting organizations where youth can develop their skills and talents. That responsibility falls ultimately to us, members of the community, to ensure we're providing opportunities for the next generation.
1We primarily serve Oakland, Hayward, Berkeley and other neighboring communities.