GIRLS WHO CODE

ANNUAL REPORT

2020 : BRAVERY

IN A CRISIS

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ANNUAL LETTER

FROM FOUNDER

RESHMA

THIS YEAR WAS AS DIFFICULT

AS THEY COME A PANDEMIC,

AN OVERDUE RECKONING AROUND

RACIAL INJUSTICE, A TRANSITION

TO REMOTE WORK AND LEARNING.

But through it all, I saw nothing but resilience, bravery, and leadership from our team, our partners, our girls, our community.

 

The staff at Girls Who Code spent the year working to design and deploy new virtual initiatives for our community. Our amazing partners stepped up to support Girls Who Code when we needed it most. And our girls showed a kind of leadership that we should all admire and aspire to.

 

I’ve never been more proud to be the leader of this incredible organization. And I believe, in my heart of hearts, that leaders must know when to step aside and make room for new vision and leadership. That’s why this year, I announced that I’ll be passing the baton to my amazing friend and Girls Who Code Chief Operating Officer Dr. Tarika Barrett to replace me as the Chief Executive Officer of Girls Who Code. I will remain on as the new Chair of the Board of Directors, and the organization’s biggest cheerleader.

Reshma Saujani, Founder

This is a new chapter for Girls Who Code. In our first decade, we reached 450,000 girls—half of them Black, Latinx, or low-income. Our cohort of college-aged alumni grew to 90,000 young women. And our culture-change work is shifting hearts and minds.

 

Now, heading into our second decade with Dr. Barrett at the helm, all data points to the organization closing the gender gap in new entry-level tech jobs by 2030. I can think of no better moment for a transition in leadership, and no better person to step into the role. Tarika has lived the experience of so many of our girls and spent her career fighting for equity. Our girls will see her in this new role, and know anything is possible.

 

I hope you can join me in congratulating Dr. Barrett, and in cheering for Girls Who Code in the years to come.

 

 

With love,

Reshma Saujani

Reshma Saujani, CEO

BY THE

NUMBERS

2030

is the year in which we are on track to close the gender gap in new entry-level tech jobs

13 BILLION

engagements globally

450,000

girls and young women served to date

50%

of girls served come from historically underrepresented groups in tech

In 2021, there are nearly

90,000

Girls Who Code alumni who are college-aged or post-college aged

There are now almost

3X

more Girls Who Code college-aged or post-college aged alumni than the number of women graduating with CS and related degrees in the US in 2019

OUR PROGRAMMATIC

WORK

GIRLS SERVED

SINCE 2012

450,000

100,000 200,000 300,000 400,000 500,000 2021 2012

Girls Who Code has served 450,000 girls to date. We know that our Clubs, virtual Summer Immersion Program, and Code From Home activities are constantly expanding the pipeline of girls in computer science, and that our programming for college and workforce-aged young women is helping to retain girls in tech. We are getting closer to parity everyday.

STUDENTS & ALUMNI SERVED

BY PROGRAM

50,000 100,000 150,000 200,000 250,000 300,000 350,000 CLUBS SUMMER PROGRAMMING COLLEGE-AGED PROGRAMMING EDUCATIONAL CONTENT

Our programs continue to grow and serve girls all along the pipeline.

GIRLS SERVED

375,500

STUDENTS REACHED BY

PROGRAMS IN THE U.S., CANADA,

INDIA, AND THE U.K.

411,000

TOTAL STUDENTS REACHED

Map of Students Reached by Programs in the U.S., Canada, India, and the U.K.

OUR PIVOT TO

VIRTUAL PROGRAMMING

The global pandemic has exposed and exacerbated the inequities in our education system and workforce, making it even more critical for Girls Who Code to step into the gap and serve girls in the highest-need communities. Yet there has been a silver lining. While challenging, the shift to remote learning has allowed Girls Who Code to serve more students, eliminating barriers like geography and pushing our organization to deploy new virtual initiatives to address the needs of our community. We remain committed to supporting girls in the highest-need communities, closing the gender gap in tech, and coming out of this pandemic even stronger.

Virtual SIP

VIRTUAL

SIP

Served 5,000 girls around the world—the largest number we’ve ever served in the summer and 3X the number of girls served in-person the year prior. More than half our students are Black, Latinx, or low-income. Research indicates our virtual program is as effective at sparking interest in Computer Science as our in-person summer program.

VIRTUAL

CLUBS

Adapted our Clubs program to offer an all-virtual option for Fall 2020 and rolled out new resources for Facilitators to lead their Clubs remotely.

Virtual Clubs
Code at Home

CODE

AT HOME

Released dozens of free, downloadable coding activities. Millions of people engaged with Code at Home in 2020.

GIRLS WHO CODE

TALKS

Launched to address the educational and professional needs of young women in response to the COVID-19 pandemic, GWC Talks reached more than 5,000 young women in 2020.

Girls Who Code Talks

OUR

ALUMNI

IN THE LAST YEAR, THE NUMBER

OF GIRLS WHO CODE

COLLEGE-AGED ALUMNI

GREW TO

0

That number is three times the number of women who graduated with computer science and related degrees in the US in 2019. We continue to develop programming to help young women persist and succeed in the tech workforce, including: Girls Who Code Talks, Girls Who Code Virtual Hiring Summit, and more.

OUR ALUMNI

ARE DOING

INCREDIBLE WORK

OUR CULTURE

CHANGE WORK

Girls Who Code has always been a leader in the fight for women’s equality. We’re not just teaching girls to code, we are changing culture—culture that says women and girls aren’t as smart or valuable or as worthy as men, and that they don’t have a place in tech. Our campaigns and brand partnerships help shift hearts and minds, showing that girls belong in tech.

GIRLS WHO CODE

GOES TO THE

SUPER BOWL

We partnered with Olay on a Super Bowl ad featuring actors Busy Phillips and Taraji P. Henson, comedian Lilly Singh, journalist Katie Couric, and retired astronaut Nicole Stott. The ad was a part of Olay’s incredible #MakeSpaceForWomen campaign.

WATCH VIDEO
Girls Who Code at the Super Bowl
Hillary Clinton Reshma Saujani

STAR-STUDDED

SUMMER SPEAKER

SERIES

We knew we had to do something special this year for the girls in our first-ever virtual Summer Immersion Program, so we lined up a star-studded speaker series to lend them words of inspiration. Speakers included First Lady Dr. Jill Biden, Co-CEO and President of Ariel Investments Mellody Hobson, journalist Soledad O’Brien, actress & activist Yara Shahidi, former Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton, former CEO of Pepsico Indra Nooyi, CEO of Twitter and Square Jack Dorsey, Co-Chair and Founder of the Gates Foundation Melinda Gates, NASA astronaut Christina Koch, Netflix CMO Bozoma Saint John, Zoom CEO Eric Yuan, body positivity advocate Jessamyn Stanley, former U.S. Education Secretary John King Jr., and Co-founder and CEO of Co-Star Banu Guler.

GIRLS WHO CODE

AMERICAN GIRL

You cannot be what you cannot see! It was an honor to partner with American Girl on their first-ever gamer girl doll: Courtney. As a part of the partnership, American Girl granted four $5,000 scholarships to Girls Who Code students to help further their education in computer science.

Courtney, the American Girl Doll

#SISTERHOODSTORY

We teamed up with Apple this year for Day of the Girl, offering a multidisciplinary week of virtual programming celebrating the power of storytelling and sisterhood. Our creative sessions featured incredible women artists and creators including Becky G, Madame Gandhi, Ashly Burch, Reyna Noriega and more.

BREAKING THE

INTERNET FOR

COMPUTER SCIENCE

EDUCATION WEEK

In a move designed to celebrate the unseen contributions of female coders, Girls Who Code launched “Missing Code,” a digital campaign that illustrated how broken the internet would be if not for the work done by women. The campaign was made possible by the generous support of Lyda Hill Philanthropies’® IF/THEN® Initiative

WATCH VIDEO
'Missing Code' Digital Campaign'
The New York Times Full Page Ad

MARSHALL PLAN

FOR MOMS

In January 2020, Girls Who Code took out a full-page ad in The New York Times calling on the Biden Administration to implement a Marshall Plan for Moms—a 360 plan to pay mothers for their unpaid, unseen labor and to pass policies addressing parental leave, affordable childcare, and pay equity. 50 prominent women signed the ad, led by our CEO and founder Reshma Saujani, including Amy Schumer, Alexis McGill Johnson, Julianne Moore, Tarana Burke, Whitney Wolfe Herd, Charlize Theron, Eva Longoria, Gabrielle Union, and Ana Ortiz.

OUR

PARTNERS

$1M+

#StartSmall

AT&T

Bank of America

Prudential Financial

Raytheon Technologies

Walmart

Xandr

$500K - $999,999

Apple

Craig Newmark Philanthropies

Deloitte

FOX

JPMorgan Chase & Co.

News Corp

P&G

Synchrony

$250K - $499,999

Accenture

ADP

Arthur M. Blank Family Foundation

Chuck Lorre Family Foundation

Citrix Systems

DeepMind

Dell Technologies

KPMG

Logitech

Lyda Hill Philanthropies

Morgan Stanley

Olay

TransPerfect

U.S. Bank

$150K - $249,999

BlackRock

Fiserv

Ford Motor Company

General Dynamics Information Technology

General Motors

George Lucas Family Foundation

Humble Bundle

Lyft

Moody’s Corporation

Patrick J. McGovern Foundation

S&P Global and the S&P Global Foundation

The Depository Trust and Clearing Corporation (DTCC)

ViacomCBS

Wells Fargo

$75K - $149,999

Amazon

athenahealth

Cadence Design Systems

CNA

Credit Suisse Services (USA) LLC

Delta Air Lines

Dolby Laboratories

Electronic Arts

Goldman Sachs

Intuit

Johnson & Johnson

Kate Spade New York Foundation

Lisa Su

Match Group

MetLife and MetLife Foundation

Microsoft

New York Life Insurance Company

Pfizer Inc.

Pinkerton Foundation

Riot Games

Software.org: the BSA Foundation

State Farm(R)

Tango Card, Inc.

The Travelers Companies, Inc.

The Walt Disney Company

Toyota USA Foundation

Yardi

Zotec Partners

$25K - $74,999

American Express

American Girl

Anonymous

Anonymous

Ansys

BAE Systems

Bare Minerals

Ben and Divya Silbermann

Capital One

Chicago Trading Co.

Decoded Advertising

Elizabeth and Brian O'Kelley Charitable Fund

F5 Networks

Harvest

Huawei Technologies USA Inc.

J3 Events Inc

Lip-Bu Tan and Ysa Loo

McEvoy Spero Family Charitable Fund

Nike

RocketGenius

SAP

The D. E. Shaw Group

Verizon Media

Weikart Family Foundation

WeWork

$10K - $24,999

Ableton Inc

Annenberg Foundation

Anonymous

Autodesk

Ayzenberg Group

Balazs Family Giving Fund

Bright Funds Foundation

Clarkston Consulting

Cox Enterprises

Databricks

DW Gore Family Foundation

E*TRADE Financial

Experian PLC

Fidelity Charitable

FreeWheel

G2

GEICO

Google

IEX Group, Inc.

IndraSoft

Insight

Interior Design

James M. and Margaret V. Stine Foundation

Jeffrey A. Dean and Heidi Hopper

Jeri Juergens

Klayivo, Inc

Leyla Seka

Macy's

Marianne Brown

MasterClass

McKesson

McLelland Family Foundation

National Christian Foundation Indiana

Northrop Grumman Corporation

Okta

OVHcloud

Pinterest

SEI

Shockwave Medical, INC

Sock It to Me

Spain-U.S. Chamber of Commerce

Synopsys

Syntax

The Breman Foundation

Thomas Jordan

TJX Companies

Valor Management

Vettery Company

Wayfair LLC

$5K - $9,999

ACM Sigmod

Adeena Moylan

Anne Marie Phillips

Anonymous

Aspect Capital

Association for Unmanned Vehicle Systems International

BairesDev

Brides for a Cause

CarGurus

Catey DeBalko

Charles and Angela Sunderland Fund - Greater Kansas City Community Foundation

CSRA

Custom House Financial (UK)

Female Founders Fund

First Tech Credit Union

Four-Four Foundation

Gisell Navarro

GoodRx

Herman Singh

Hudson River Trading LLC

IDC Research, Inc

IPG Photonics

Jam3

Jeffrey Gordon

John Shewchuk

Jonathan David Perlow

Juan Benet

Justin Chalfant

Kara Sprague

Kolide, Inc.

LinkedIn

Lore Family Fund

Major League Baseball Player's Association

Marissa Shorenstein

Michael Levy

Nancy Pine

Navis LLC

Netflix

Northwestern Mutual

Pentair

Phil Shawe

Portland Access User Group

Robert Andrews

SafeBreach Inc

SAS

SearchSpring

SecurityScorecard

Sheila Stanek

Shein

The FalCarthy Foundation

Third Door Media, Inc.

TrustRadius

Zachary Johnson

As the pace of digital transformation accelerates, it’s critical that we close the gender gap in tech – by both building the talent pipeline and creating inclusive workplaces. While not everyone’s journey will be the same, everyone’s opportunities should be equal. Synchrony’s partnership with Girls Who Code is critical to help build opportunities for mentorship, leadership and skills training for the next generation of women leaders.

CAROL JUEL

EVP and CIO of Synchrony and a member of the Board of Directors at Girls Who Code

VISION FOR

2021

IN THE FIVE YEARS SINCE

I'VE JOINED GIRLS WHO CODE FIRST AS

VP OF PROGRAMS, AND THEN

AS CHIEF OPERATING OFFICER I'VE WATCHED

OUR TEAM DO THE MOST

INCREDIBLE WORK.

Thanks to Reshma, we are in sight of our goal, in sight of closing the gender gap in tech by 2030.

 

But the road ahead is long. The COVID-19 pandemic has set countless girls back academically and professionally. And we’re still up against a culture that says girls do not belong in tech; up against an industry that needs to be held accountable for hiring, retaining, and promoting women and people of color.

 

As CEO, I plan to harness every ounce of my personal and professional experience, and bring it to bear on behalf of our girls. Because passionate, ambitious, and diverse young women are the key to transforming our economy and our society. If they can rise to the top, we will all live in a better, more equitable world.

We expanded our signature Clubs in the U.S. and abroad, serving 450,000 girls. We designed and deployed programs dedicated to supporting our ever-growing cohort of college-aged alumni—a group now 90,000 strong. In 2019, we were named the #1 Most Innovative Non-Profit by Fast Company.

 

And when the COVID-19 pandemic hit, we pivoted quickly—dramatically expanding our reach through virtual programming that was effective, equitable, and accessible. We served the girls who needed us most, the girls most impacted by the pandemic.

 

For all this, I want to thank Reshma. Without her visionary leadership, our world, our organization, the lives of our girls would all look very different. Her legacy will inspire us all for years to come.

 

 

Thank you for your support,

Dr. Tarika Barrett

2020

FINANCIAL

STATEMENT OF

FINANCIAL POSITION Down arrow

ASSETSNET ASSETSTOTAL LIABILITIES AND NET ASSETSLIABILITIES2020202042,492,00020202019201932,308,0002019CashReceivableInvestmentsOtherUnrestrictedRestrictedTotal AssetsTotal Net AssetsTotal Liabilities9,029,00010,012,00020,922,0002,529,00026,266,00015,093,00042,492,00041,359,0001,133,0004,598,00010,489,00015,596,0001,625,00016,483,00014,880,00032,308,00031,363,000945,000

STATEMENT OF

ACTIVITIES Down arrow

REVENUE + SUPPORTEXPENSES2020202020192019Contributions and grantsIn-kind donationsOther incomeProgram servicesManagement and generalFundraisingGain on forgiveness of PPP loanChange in Net AssetsNet Assets - Beginning of yearNet Assets - End of yearTotal Revenue and SupportTotal Expenses21,160,000765,000401,00010,593,0001,931,0001,460,0001,654,0009,996,00031,363,00041,359,00022,326,00013,984,00020,864,0001,416,000956,00017,245,0002,305,0001,340,00002,346,00029,017,00031,363,00023,236,00020,890,000

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