Django Girls

<a href="http://djangogirls.org/" rel="nofollow">Django Girls</a> is a non-profit organization that empowers and helps women to organize free, one-day programming workshops by providing tools, resources and support. It was born in July 2014 in Berlin and started by two Polish girls: Ola Sitarska and Ola Sendecka. We make the world better by bringing more amazing women into the world of technology and increasing the diversity in the Django community. We believe that technology is for people and everyone should be able to build it. We are making technology more approachable by creating simple tools and <a href="http://djangogirls.org/resources/" rel="nofollow">resources</a> designed with empathy. Django Girls aims to introduce women and girls who never coded before to the world of technology and increase the diversity of the tech industry. This is achieved by organizing free one-day workshops and inviting women to come and learn how to build the internet using HTML, CSS, Python and Django. Django Girls is a volunteer-run organization with volunteers all over the world. We started in July 2014 and in six years 2,032 volunteers in the Django Girls community have organized 984 events that allowed more than 21,277 women to learn about Python and Django for free. Django Girls has been to 526 cities in 98 countries in Europe, Africa, North America, South America, Asia and Australia.  Our <a href="http://tutorial.djangogirls.org/">free Django tutorial</a> available in English and translated in 19 languages has been used by more than 80,000 people and viewed almost 4,000,000 times. Many of our alumni are already working as Django developers, attending conferences and spreading their knowledge with others (make sure to read <a href="http://blog.djangogirls.org/post/105864489478/your-django-story-meet-dori-czapari">Dori’s</a> Django Story, if you haven’t done it yet). <a href="http://djangogirls.org/story/">90 stories of successful female Django developers</a> have been told on our blog. Since the first Django Girls workshop in July 2014 we grew unexpectedly fast and we couldn’t sustain that growth without some help. In 2015, we introduced the paid position of Awesomeness Ambassador to help provide support to other volunteers. In 2017, we also introduced the temporary position of Fundraising Coordinator to help us raise funds to run our activities. All of the money gathered here on Patreon will go towards running our Django Girls non-profit organization as well as supporting the future growth of Django Girls, allowing us to create more learning resources and enabling even more women to discover the joy of programming. FAQ What’s the impact of your work? The results of a survey we conducted in 2017 with almost 600 past Django Girls attendees to see if Django Girls Foundation actually achieves the goal of our mission: to bring more women into tech industry, shows that we have indeed made an impact in the tech industry! 21% of participants in our survey started working in tech after attending Django Girls workshop! 73% of the participants in our survey are still involved in tech activities while 79% of Django Girls alumnis are still learning programming after the workshop. To read more about the impact we are making in bringing more women into the tech industry, please read our <a href="https://djangogirls.org/2016-2017/">Impact Report 2016 - 2017 here.</a> Are you a non-profit organization? Yes, Django Girls Foundation is a charity registered in the United Kingdom. How are we going to spend your money? The money you donate will be spent on daily activities of the Django Girls Foundation. The majority of our costs is paying our part-time staff: Awesomeness Ambassador who provides administrative support to thousands of volunteers organizers, Fundraising Coordinator who is leading this fundraising effort, accounting services and software tools we use (like Mailchimp, etc).

Free

Receive a virtual hug and a real smile from Django Girls all over the world. Exclusive access to our super special thank you video!

All of the above + every 3 months we will send you a small surprise (sticker pack, thank you card, a keychain, bag of confetti!)

We will thank you from our Facebook and twitter page (with a chosen link and an image, if you want) + logo on our website + logo in monthly newsletter + sponsor badge + access to job board at a fee. This is a price for a month, so if you want your logo to stay there for longer, just setup a recurring donation :)

All of the above + logo in all our events websites + when your contribution equals our Silver Tier ($1000), we will do a blog post to announce you!

All of the above + small ad in our tutorial + opportunity to contribute to our tutorial extensions in official materials!

All of the above + access to our job board for free!

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