We based Tech Fairness Collective in 2021 to speed up Black innovation and illustration in tech. To ensure the mission resonates past Google, we’ve partnered with different tech firms and neighborhood organizations to create new profession pathways for rising Black tech innovators and technologists. Innovation is fueled by funding, and so final yr TEC launched the Tech Fairness Collective Influence Fund to offer help for organizations actively advancing Black technical expertise.
As we speak, we’re asserting that purposes for the second cycle of the TEC Influence Fund are open — and we’re encouraging organizations searching for to drive equitable entry within the tech trade to use.
The TEC Influence Fund — from an preliminary pool of $1 million — will present help to twenty grantees together with a trove of trade sources and experience from the Tech Fairness Collective.
Choice as an Influence Fund grantee consists of:
- Non-dilutive monetary help: $50K in non-dilutive funding to fortify initiatives and upskill aspiring and rising Black technical expertise.
- Enhanced technique and operations: Month-to-month digital seminars to speed up organizational development — that includes subjects similar to management and fundraising — led by trade thought leaders and practitioners.
- A beneficial neighborhood: Unique entry to Tech Fairness Collective’s vibrant neighborhood of trade consultants, advisors, and peer organizations dedicated to uplifting Black expertise in tech. Grantees will collaborate, share sources, and faucet into collective intelligence to multiply their influence.
Final yr’s grantees, together with ColorStack and Diversiboard, affirm the TEC Influence Fund’s transformative influence on the communities they serve, citing scaled efforts, empowered management and subsequent fundraising. One grantee, Morgan Latimer Consulting CEO Anthony Mays, famous, “Due to the TEC Influence Fund grant, we had been capable of launch our first ever course on technical interviewing.”
Discover extra details about the fund’s eligibility necessities, choice standards and the way to apply on the Tech Fairness Collective web site.
