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  • Hoodline Hack the Hood Challenge Helps Teach Youth
  • Communication Arts Magazine The Changing Face of Design
  • Chronicle of Social Change Hack the Hood Provides Opportunities for Underrepresented Youth
  • ​TechCrunch 40 Diverse People in Tech Who Made Big Moves in 2015
  • Refinery 29 Hack The Hood Schools Tech's Next Generation by Christina Bonnington
  • Oaklandish Blog Nonprofit of the Month: Hack the Hood 
  • For Richmond Hack the Hood Offers Tech Bootcamp to Underserved Richmond Youth
  • ABC 7 News Bay Area Program Closes Gap Between Tech World, Disadvantaged Youth by Jonathan Bloom
  • KTVU Fox News Young adults participate in tech competition for inner-city kids by Rob Roth
  • Intuit website Hack the Hood Builds Small Business Websites — and the Next Generation of Entrepreneurs by Laura McCamy
  • Queen Elizabeth Prize for Engineering Blog Hack the Hood-Interview by Louisa Di Felice
  • CBS San Francisco Hack the Hood: Susan Mernit interviewed by Liz Saint John
  • CNN Money Hack the Hood: Preparing low-income youth for tech jobs  by Natalie Angley
  • NPR: All Tech Considered Next To Silicon Valley, Nonprofits Draw Youth Of Color Into Tech, by Aarti Shahani

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  • San Francisco Chronicle Oakland Students Present Summer Tech Projects
  • Chronicle of Social Change STEM Internships Help Foster Youth Break into High-Tech World
  • San Francisco Chronicle Tenderloin Ethnic Eateries Join Forces for Online Orders 
  • San Jose Mercury News Pizarro: Knight Foundation's latest grants support bike commuting, work training
  • Les Echos Oakland multiplie les initiatives pour les Afro-Américains
  • Danville Patch East Bay Innovation Awards Celebrating Local Businesses
  • USA TODAY Oakland tech hub fights for diversity
  • Huffington Post The School That's Making a Career in Tech Possible for Everyone 
  • NVIDIA Blog Three Nonprofits Win $100K in Grants to Build Future STEM Workforce
  • NPR Learning & Tech blog Disrupting' Tech's Diversity Problem With A Code Camp For Girls Of Color by Eric Westervelt
  • Ebony blog 8 companies closing the Digital Divide by Lynne D Johnson
  • Microsoft Bay Area Blog Meet the 2015 Silicon Valley YouthSpark Grantees!
  • Philanthropy News Digest San Francisco Foundation Announces $34 Million Investment in Oakland
  • East Bay Express The San Francisco Foundation Gives $34 Million to Oakland Organizations
  • ABC 7 News Mysterious Donor Gives Millions to Oakland Schools, Nonprofits Wayne Freedman
  • SF Gate Google offering $5 million to Bay Area nonprofits with big ideas Joe Garofoli
  • East Bay Express Cultivating the Next Generation of East Bay Entrepreneurs Nastia Voynovskaya
  • Oakland North New play “We Go Boom” explores tensions between tech industry and Oakland community by Gabriela Arvizu
  • NPR: Marketplace Weekend Finding the beta version of Silicon Valley by Lizzie O'Leary
  • Philadelphia Tribune Few jobs for Blacks in Silicon Valley
  • USA Today Program teaches low-income kids to code Jessica Guynn
  • USA Today Wayne Sutton: Three questions about diversity in tech by Wayne Sutton
  • Fast Company Inside the movement that’s trying to solve Silicon Valley’s Diversity Problem by Jane Porter
  • USA Today Marc Andreessen gives $500,000 to diversify high tech by Jessica Guynn
  • Wall Street Journal Blog Andreessen Puts Spotlight on Tech Diversity With $500,000 in Grants by Douglas MacMillan
  • Financial Times Silicon Valley's Diversity Reboot by Hannah Kuchler
  • Oakland Local Hack the Hood Graduates 23 Students in Oakland by Pendarvis Harshaw
  • Essence.com Festival Blog It Takes a Tech Vilage: How Kapor Center Funds the Future 
  • 7x7 Magazine Top 20 for Hot 20: Vote for the 2014 Community Choice Award Finalists! 
  • NonProfit Quarterly Nonprofits and the Diversity of Tech Firms in Silicon Valley, by Rob Meiksins
  • New Schools Venture Fund Blog Innovation and Entrepreneurship in Education, by Cameron White 
  • Times New Roman Empire Debugging Diversity In Tech, by Mariah Lichtenstern
  • KQED blog Can Oakland Avoid Tech Conflicts as Startups Move In?, by Sam Harnett
  • Forbes.com Google I/O 2014's Nonprofit Panel: Hack The Hood, Beyond 12, And One Degree Thomas Ehrlich and Ernestine Fu
  • TIME.com Education The Ambitious Plan to Teach 100,000 Poor Kids to Code by, Denver Nicks
  • SF Gate Google giving $5 million to Bay Area nonprofits, by Joe Garofoli
  • The Nonprofit Times Big Grants Snared In Google Impact Challenge
  • Philanthropy News Digest Bay Area Google Impact Award Winners Announced
  • Oakland Tribune/San Jose Mercury News Google gives $500,000 to Oakland tech training outfit, by Doug Oakley
  • Tech Crunch Google Impact Challenge Awards $500K Each To Four Bay Area Nonprofits, by Kyle Russel
  • United Roots Blog Hack the Hood, a program in partnership with United Roots, wins Google Impact Challenge! by Galen Silvestri
  • California STEM Weekly Google Impact Challenge Awards $500K Each To Four Bay Area Nonprofits (TechCrunch)
  • TIME.com Opinion We Can Finally Talk About Sexism in Tech–So Let’s Be Honest, by Divya Manian
  • SF Gate Top reads, May 10 – 25, by Oakland Local, by Liza Veale
  • Weebly Blog Help Empower the Next Generation of Tech Innovators
  • Chronicle of Philanthropy Google Names 10 Finalists in $5-Million ‘Impact Challenge'
  • Google Blog Bright ideas for an even better Bay Area
  • Tech Crunch Google To Announce Finalists For Bay Area Impact Challenge   Kyle Russel

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