Blog Post Archives - Kapor Center

November 8, 2023

Kapor Foundation’s Upcoming Latine Tech Ecosystem Report Promises New Insights & Partnerships

September 6, 2023

Creating Equity in Tech and Venture Capital: The Kapor Fellows Program

August 8, 2023

Vote to Send Kapor Center to SXSW 2024

February 1, 2023

Distance Traveled: Cliff Worley

November 11, 2022

4. STRUCTURING THE LEARNING JOURNEY

November 11, 2022

5. CREATING A CULTURE OF MENTORSHIP & SUPPORT

November 11, 2022

6. ADVANCING TALENT & FUTURE EQUITY WORK

November 11, 2022

ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS

November 11, 2022

STRUCTURING THE LEARNING JOURNEY – Structure Project-Based Learning On Teams

November 11, 2022

STRUCTURING THE LEARNING JOURNEY – Structure Foundational Learning

November 11, 2022

STRUCTURING THE LEARNING JOURNEY – Identify The Right Foundational Skills To Teach

November 11, 2022

CREATING A CULTURE OF MENTORSHIP OF SUPPORT – Responsibly Engage Employee Resource Groups (ERGs)…

November 11, 2022

CREATING A CULTURE OF MENTORSHIP OF SUPPORT – Connect Apprentices To Mentors With A Shared Lived…

November 11, 2022

ASSESSING – Ensure Equitable, Transparent Assessment During The Program

November 11, 2022

ASSESSING – Design An Equitable, Transparent Hiring Process

November 11, 2022

ASSESSING – Foster Equity & Transparency With An Application Guide

November 11, 2022

SOURCING — Use Workarounds & Direct Action to Target Racially Diverse Talent

November 11, 2022

SOURCING — Set Clear and Effective DEI Target

November 11, 2022

SOURCING — Eliminate Internal Referrals

November 11, 2022

SOURCING — Prioritize Effective Sourcing Partnerships

November 11, 2022

SOURCING — Address Equity Limitations of Bootcamps

November 11, 2022

GAINING BUY-IN — Responsibly Engage Employee Resource Groups for Buy-In

November 11, 2022

GAINING BUY-IN — Refining Your Pitch Deck for Leadership

November 11, 2022

GAINING BUY-IN — Effectively Engage Leadership for Buy-In

November 11, 2022

GAINING BUY-IN — Organize Fellow Tech Employees

November 11, 2022

GAINING BUY-IN — Track Early Supporters

November 11, 2022

GAINING BUY-IN — Map Out Who You Need

November 11, 2022

GAINING BUY-IN – Draft Your Pitch

November 11, 2022

CREATING A CULTURE OF MENTORSHIP OF SUPPORT – Provide Diversity, Equity, Inclusion, And Belonging…

November 11, 2022

CONVERTING AND ADVANCING TALENT — Convert Apprentices & Support Their Advancement Beyond End Of…

November 11, 2022

CONVERTING AND ADVANCING TALENT — Keep A Positive Frame On Equity Work To Sustain And Scale…

October 31, 2022

Enter The SMASHVerse: Equipping Underrepresented Youth For The Future Of Work

October 12, 2022

2022 Kapor Fellows Venture Capital Program

October 3, 2022

2022 Kapor Capital Founders’ Summit

September 27, 2022

Meet the Next Generation of STEM Leaders

September 20, 2022

What’s at Stake these Midterms: National Voter Registration Day Beyond

May 9, 2022

Stepping Back for a Launch Forward: New Kapor Capital Leadership

February 3, 2022

Here’s how your community can get it’s share of the $65B historic federal broadband investment

January 11, 2022

Digging Into the Great Resignation

January 4, 2022

We Can’t Transform Tech Without Tech: Meta | SMASH

November 15, 2021

How Can Skill-Based Apprenticeships Scale Racial Inclusion in Tech?

August 13, 2021

2021 Kapor Capital Summer Fellows

July 29, 2021

Charting a Path Towards An Equitable Future for Computer Science Education: The Culturally Responsive-Sustaining CS Education Framework

July 26, 2021

What’s it like being a Black woman in tech? Monique Thompson shares her experience 20 years after speaking out against bias

June 17, 2021

Only 156 years ago, the first celebration of “Jubilee Day” by freedmen in Texas happened.

May 19, 2021

How the Kapor Center and Airbnb are Advancing Inclusive Tech Apprenticeship

May 7, 2021

How can we ensure $3.2B in FCC funding brings communities of color offline online? We need YOU!

April 20, 2021

The Fight For Justice Continues…

March 24, 2021

How Can We Rebuild More Diverse Tech Ecosystems Post-COVID? Insights from the Tech Done Right Challenge

February 25, 2021

The Urgent Need for Racially Inclusive Tech Apprenticeship in the COVID Economic Recovery

February 16, 2021

What’s Your Black History Month Legacy?

November 17, 2020

Expanding Digital Pathways for Native Girls

November 13, 2020

Race to the Ballot: A Three-Part Webinar Series

October 27, 2020

Mobilizing Black & Brown Voters This Election Season

October 22, 2020

Kapor Center Opens Doors in West Oakland For 2020 Elections

October 21, 2020

Navigating Through Connectivity

October 16, 2020

2019 Kapor Center Impact Awardees!

September 9, 2020

I Am Neither

September 4, 2020

The Impact of COVID-19 on Vulnerable Americans

August 19, 2020

Why We Are Giving Paid Time Off on Election Day

August 12, 2020

If Not Now, Then When? Stepping Up for Black Women in the Workforce

August 5, 2020

Now is the Time to Level the Digital Playing Field and Ensure Connectivity for All

July 15, 2020

Looking to do right by your Black employees? Start by renegotiating the terms of your ERGs for Black talent

June 16, 2020

Why We Believe Juneteenth Is More Than A Day Off

March 24, 2020

Still Working Hard for Community

March 24, 2020

Still Working Hard for Community

January 15, 2020

2019 A Year of Milestones

January 6, 2020

10 People Operations Tech Startups Rewriting How Tech Approaches Diversity

August 12, 2019

The Kapor Capital Summer Associate Experience

August 5, 2019

Prioritizing Communities of Color and the Tech Economy

July 11, 2019

Announcing our Tech Done Right National Challenge Winners

June 14, 2019

CSinSkools

June 12, 2019

In Memory of Walter Robinson: Leader, Role Model, Change Agent at UC Davis and beyond

June 4, 2019

We Brought Over 75 of Our Founders Together. The Result Was Magical.

May 20, 2019

Building a VC 2.0

May 6, 2019

Kapor Center Operations Team Member, Erick Garcia, Shares His Distance Traveled Story

May 2, 2019

Announcing our External Evaluators for our $1M Tech Done Right National Challenge

April 4, 2019

The Kapor Center heads to SXSW

April 2, 2019

New Research Projects Will Examine Ways to Increase the Participation of Women of Color in Computing Fields

March 20, 2019

What We’re Up to in 2019

March 19, 2019

What would you do with $1M to make your city’s tech ecosystem more inclusive and representative?

March 14, 2019

For us, by us: Building an inclusive tech economy requires a new approach to tech opportunity, access, and philanthropy

March 5, 2019

3 Takeaways from a non-Black POC reflecting on Black History Month

March 5, 2019

iLab Spring 2019: Meet our Spring cohort!

February 4, 2019

The Kapor Center Celebrates Black History Month with the Distance Traveled Story of Community Engagement Manager Tiffany Price

February 1, 2019

Kapor Center Celebrates Black History Month

January 28, 2019

CAN WOMEN SAVE VC?

January 16, 2019

Meet Cynthia Overton, Director of Tech Workplace Initiatives

January 3, 2019

SMASH: A National Program Tackling Local Problems

December 27, 2018

2018 A Year of Milestones

June 26, 2018

Past Pride & Present Practice

May 4, 2018

Kapor Takes SXSW

March 29, 2018

Kapor Center’s Gift of Gab: See Where We’re Speaking this Spring!

January 21, 2016

Announcing the Kapor Capital Founders’ Commitment

August 5, 2015

Our $40 Million Pledge to Fix the Leaky Tech Pipeline

April 16, 2015

Now What? How to Create Fair Companies after the Ellen Pao Verdict