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Our psychology backed mentorship offers training for both mentees and mentors to help us build and build an ecosystem of tech leaders who have the skills needed to become human centered leaders. \n Thanks to the funds received from the GR15 round we've been able to create an open source educational hub, build a membership portal, develop a mentorship matching platform, hire a community manager, launch a newsletter, and open cohort applications. This demonstrates our commitment and progress in the Web3 space. Access to fund from this round will help us continue to grow our community of underrepresented developers, designers, product managers, and tech leaders, to foster inclusivity and diversity within the Web3 space.", "hidden": true, "question": "How does your project fit into the Community & Education round eligibility criteria? ", "questionId": 8}, {"type": "paragraph", "answer": "Through funds used for our last gitcoin round we\u2019ve been able to knock out creating the infrastructure we need to get our community up and running.\n\nCreated our open source educational hub that covers the following topics\n\nBasic web 2 STEAM education\n\nWeb 3 basics\n\nHow to implement Web 3 solutions for social good\n\nHow to work with ENS's Sign-in with Ethereum\n\nThe importance of documentation\n\nHow to be better leaders\n\nHow to use industry standard tools\n\nHow to take a product to production\n\nNavigating interviews and acceptances letters\n\nBuilt and launched our membership portal to facilitate onboarding for people\n\nCreated and launch a psychology backed mentorship matching platform\n\nHired our first community manager to help keep enactment going\n\nLaunched our monthly newsletter\n\nOpened our cohort open source application", "hidden": false, "question": "If you've participated in past grant rounds, please share any new updates or milestones from the prior months", "questionId": 9}, {"type": "paragraph", "answer": "Since Tech by Choice was founded in 2018 we've been able to achieve the following milestone\n- Received our nonprofit status organization\n- Established our Los Angeles, California Chapter\n- Established our Oakland, California Chapter\n- Hosted over 1700 hours of the community-driven programming\n- Grown to 1,827 community members\n- Hosted a hackathon that helped 11 Minority-Owned businesses thrive online during the start of the pandemic in 2020\n- TBC Together beta cohort completed our community-driven rebrand and launched our new website. \n- This cohort helped 3 out of the 4 cohort members land a job\n- One cohort member received a promotion based on the skills they gained during this program\n- Hosted an Empowered By Tech conference\n- Host monthly Resumes & Portfolio reviews\n- Figma featured us for our focus on learning through play as adults through our TBC & Chill events", "hidden": false, "question": "Anything else you'd like to share about your project, previous work, or other project affiliations? 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Tech by Choice DAO is fundraising to launch our TBC Together program to turn more tech consumers into tech creators through our mentorship-focused, stipend-backed, open-sourced Web 3 integrated program.\n\u00a0\nYes you read that right! Our initiative is designed to providing paid work opportunities to underrepresented people looking to grow in tech. \n\nThe Problem\nCompanies advertise entry-level openings but prioritize people with experience leaving bootcamp grads and self-taught individuals out. People in this position look to open-source projects to build experiences. Many individuals from underserved communities have additional responsibilities (being caregivers or needing to work multiple jobs), leaving them without the privilege of working without compensation.\u00a0\n\n\nOur Solution \nThrough our TBC Together program, our members build their skills by working on stipend-backed open-source web 3 integrated projects. By the end of this program, members will have working projects that they can add to their portfolio paired with a mentorship that will last beyond the project.\u00a0\u00a0\n\n\nWhat we\u2019ve done so far \nThrough funds used for our last gitcoin round we\u2019ve been able to knock out creating the infrastructure we need to get our community up and running. \n\n* Created our open source educational hub that covers the following topics \n    * Basic web 2 STEAM education\n    * Web 3 basics \n    * How to implement Web 3 solutions for social good\n    * How to work with ENS's Sign-in with Ethereum\n    * The importance of documentation\n    * How to be better leaders\n    * How to use industry standard tools\n    * How to take a product to production\n    * Navigating interviews and acceptances letters\n* Built and launched our membership portal to facilitate onboarding for people \n* Created and launch a psychology backed mentorship matching platform \n* Hired our first community manager to help keep enactment going \n* Launched our monthly newsletter \n* Opened our cohort open source application \n\n\nOur Impact\nDuring the beta role out of this program, we redesigned and launched a new website for Tech by Choice. From that initial cohort, 3 people landed a job, and one of the mentors received a promotion from leadership built through this program. Through the next cohort, we plan to see similar results at scale.\n\n \n\nAbout Tech by Choice\nTech by Choice is a 3-year-old nonprofit DAO on a mission to increase tech diversity by ensuring underestimated individuals know they can enter, stay, and thrive in all iterations of tech.\n\n \n\nTo achieve our mission, we offer low to no-cost tech skill-building events, workshops, and classes to anyone that identifies as a person of color, woman, LGTBQIA+, or disabled, no matter their immigration status or religious background; our only requirement is that our members are 18+.\n\n \n\nOur Pillars\nTech by Choice has a large mission and uses the following pillars to help our org stay focused. You can read more about our focus here.\n\n \n\nEnter\nBy understanding personal and career goals, we help underrepresented adults find roles best suited for them in tech.\n\n \n\nStay\nMarginalized groups face additional barriers both inside and outside of work. Through workshops around mental health, financial literacy, and more - we help others break through these barriers to reach their desired goals.\n\n \n\nThrive\nLanding a dream role in tech isn\u2019t enough. Through community support, mentorship, and workshops - we ensure that our members have all the tools they need to thrive in their tech journey.\n \n\nWhat makes us different?\nWe are diverse by design, not by choice, to build collision of URMs\nThe core leadership team is filled with Black women with industry experiences\nWe understand Tech is more than just code, and so are we (marketing, technical writing, mental health, financial literacy, etc.)\n \n\nOur Team.\nTech by Choice strives to be a flat organization where members are encouraged to lead, take part in official organization matters, and build their confidence as leaders. \n\nOur board and leadership team is filled with people who have expertise in Design, Tech Leadership, Technical Documentation, and more. 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