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SUMMARY:Help Promote TECH GIRLZ
DESCRIPTION: \r\nTechGirlz.org is a finalist for a Philadelphia Found
 ation grant. \r\nHelp with this important honor by voting and encourag
 ing your friends, family and colleagues to vote at -\r\n \r\nHelp spr
 ead the word \r\nby spreading the URL \r\nhttps://www.philafound.org/v
 ote/crush-the-cultural-bias-inspiring-girls-to-tech\r\n \r\nand follo
 w  CRUSH THE CULTURAL BIAS  and help expand their TechShopz in a Box
  program to 2500 girls in after-school activities.\r\n \r\nVOTE every
  day in July for them at  https://www.philafound.org/vote\r\n and\r\
 nFIND THE LINK TO\r\nCRUSH the CULTURAL BIAS DIVIDE\r\n\r\nMore info i
 s at\r\nhttps://www.techgirlz.org/help-techgirlz-win-200000-upcoming-p
 hiladelphia-foundation-grant-depends-on-community-voting-effort\r\n \
 r\nAnd a write-up about who is vying for the Grant\r\nhttps://technica
 l.ly/philly/2019/07/09/vote-philly-tech-nonprofits-win-200000-philadel
 phia-foundation   \r\n \r\nNever heard of www.TechGirlz.org  ? ? 
 ?  \r\nTechGirlz is the charity that AgilePhilly supports to encoura
 ge middle school girls ages 11-14 to go into science, IT and engineeri
 ng careers.  It is one of nine finalists for a $200,000 grant from th
 e Philadelphia Foundation’s Key to Community Grants Program\r\nYou c
 an help by voting at www.philafound.org/vote from midnight July 8, 201
 9 to midnight on July 26, 2019 with CRUSH the CULTURAL BIAS DIVIDE\r\n
 Residents of Pennsylvania, New Jersey, New York and Delaware are eligi
 ble to vote. The top prize goes to the organization that gets the most
  votes.\r\n \r\nTechGirlz.org is working on a pilot program with the 
 National PTA to educate even more girls in the coming academic year wi
 th free after-school courses. In the 2017-2018 school year alone, 2,13
 4 girls in the Philadelphia region went to 144 workshops.\r\n\r\nIn so
 ftware and beyond, the skills encouraged include video game designers,
  graphic designers, QA testers, data scientists, database admins, cybe
 rsecurity experts, business analysts, network admins, project managers
 , social media managers, and front end developers.\r\n\r\nAlso note th
 at 2019 will be the first year in which women become a majority of the
  college-educated labor force. As of the first quarter of 2019, 29.5 m
 illion women in the labor force had at least a bachelor’s degree, ef
 fectively matching the number of college-educated men in the workforce
  (29.3 million), according to the Pew Research Center is when college 
 educated women will equal men in the workforce.\r\n. . but not in engi
 neering and tech.\r\nhttps://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2019/06/20/
 u-s-women-near-milestone-in-the-college-educated-labor-force\n\nFor mo
 re information visit https://agilephilly.ning.com/events/help-tech-gir
 lz-2019
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CATEGORIES:promote, techgirlz
LOCATION:Free Online Voting
WEBSITE:http://www.philafound.org/vote
URL:http://www.philafound.org/vote
CONTACT:
ORGANIZER:www.TechGirlz.org
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