Earth Day Gala

Fostering a sustainable future with your ERG

April 18, 2024

5 pm - 7:45 pm Pacific Time

Sustaining the future through mentorship

Empowering tomorrow together: ProgramEquity is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit fostering a network of open source projects to connect early career and transitioning fellows to grassroots climate initiatives and mentorship.

$66,000+ raised by volunteers via Benevity and BrightFunds

OPen source mentorship Opportunities

Mentor the next generation in shipping climatetech

Looking for a mentor and a real world app?

Build the bridge between your bootcamp or program to real world experiences and workflows? We offer 10 weeks on a real work product built with leading edge workflows to make you competitive in the industry of DevSecOps and AI. All students welcome, priority given to HBCUs and community colleges. Our alums currently work at companies including Adobe, IBM, Microsoft, Moody's, and more.

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Want to make tech accessible and open source change?

Got an hour to hack and debug small tasks? Help fellows understand the practical decision-making and technical skills to drive software development. Pair with a fellow on a bug, automation, test, or frontend feature. Fellows ship data driven solutions for sustainability and biodiversity. Connect with other mentors across the industry including AWS, Google, Microsoft, and others.

Mentor March cohort

Ready to volunteer events for your community groups?

Create impact directly for the communities you care about and influence representation in tech. Choose to engage in a one-off event like resume reviews, mock interviews, or a monthly subscription of events. Reports include metrics on volunteer hours, your lowered carbon footprint, and the amount raised for your giving platform.

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Mentors make great leaders

Match me with a fellow

Mentors choose 1-2 focus areas from the following:
✅ Can speak to how you transitioned to tech
✅ Team lead skills of coaching and task management
✅ Offer resume and interview reviews
✅ Have a workshop you want to test out before a conference
✅ Space to continue working in Javascript via Node and Vue
✅ Onboard and ramp early career folks to problem solving

“Practice skills for the next step of your career”

Pair Hours with Advocats (ERG) is an opportunity to give back and provide mentorship to those who wish to become engineers. Entering into the tech industry can be overwhelming at times and I believe that programs like these can really make a difference for junior engineers. It is also a great opportunity for those who wish to gain more experience in handling the responsibilities of a more senior engineer or team lead.

Gabe Domingez

Senior Engineer GitHub

We're open sourcing how devs ramp and grow

I wish I had these workshops when I had first started out in tech - thats the perspective I teach from. It helps that I can often bounce ideas with mentors and I can bring them to work too.
Some of the demos also end up being great for early career folks on my team.

Aneela Chagarlamundi

Engineer, Red Hat

Growing happens when we get constructive feedback

People need support when they're still in their firsts - first open source contribution, blog, or even talk. Teaching workshops has been a great to exercise how we're responsible for whats modeled for the next generation.
I end up returning each quarter and encourage teams and seniors to continue to practice feedback and see what grows as a result.

Mike Coutermarsh

Tech Lead, PlanetScale

Organizations can measure how they tech for good

Leaders across ERGs, Guilds, Affinity groups, Communities of Belonging, Social Impact, and Engineering teams can easily set up volunteering activities where we do all the lifting.

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86 fellow graduates since 2021

Raise the developers of tomorrow on a syllabus that aligns with your talent acquisition to reduce ramp time in seat.

23,100 acres of biodiversity restored

Is your organization focused on sustainability? Mentors and fellows work on open source climate projects that are restoring endangered species and natural resources like land, water, and forests to lower your carbon footprint as an organization.

10,000+ hours volunteered by mentors

On average, companies volunteering as part of the open source mentorship averaged $4,000-$5,000 raised from mentoring activities. Organizations can expect ready to participate activities that are an hour long across their engineering, field services, and devrel teams.

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