ATLANTA — An Atlanta-based nonprofit devoted to serving to ladies throughout the nation navigate the tech business has introduced it’s closing.
Ladies Who Code introduced Thursday that they are going to dissolve the group after a board vote on funding points.
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In over a decade, Ladies Who Code says they've grown a neighborhood of greater than 360,000 ladies in 145 international locations.
The group was first shaped as a neighborhood group in San Francisco in 2011, earlier than gaining nonprofit standing in 2013 and shifting its headquarters to Atlanta in 2018.
They are saying they've hosted greater than 20,000 neighborhood occasions, distributed greater than $three.5 million in scholarships and shared greater than 14,000 job alternatives.
“Whereas a lot has been completed, our mission is much from full and our imaginative and prescient of a tech business the place various ladies and traditionally excluded individuals thrive at each degree,” the group wrote in its announcement.
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Founding CEO Alaina Percival stepped down from her function with the group in January, based on a publish on the nonprofit's web site. Present CEO Julie Eberfeld was introduced as her successor in the identical publish.
Within the closing announcement, Ladies Who Code encourages its members to “proceed to hunt assist from different like-minded organizations that authentically assist the careers of ladies in tech and proceed to encourage one another as you navigate the business.”
They haven’t commented on the circumstances surrounding their monetary issues.
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