MotherCoders students
engage in a career mapping
exercise.
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especially nonprofits, where every dollar counts,”
says Lee.
The respect is mutual. “I love MotherCoders’
mission—the idea of taking an important part of
the workforce that is underutilized and allowing
them to gain technology skills,” Masisak says.
And while MotherCoders helps individual moms,
its greater vision of achieving gender equality
through economic empowerment is always top of
mind. As the world moves into the digital future,
MotherCoders envisions a time when moms diversify
the marketplace by contributing to the design
and development of technology products and services.
Simultaneously, they strengthen communities
by creating businesses and thriving in jobs with
livable wages and advancement opportunities.
“Women reinvest 90 percent of income back
into their communities, so when we empower
mothers, everyone benefits,” Lee says. “I have two
little girls, and I do what I do because I want to
build a better world for them, for everyone.”
AN EYE TO THE FUTURE
Today’s NGOs have moved beyond the basic requirement
of a website. Nonprofit leadership teams and
boards of directors want more: mobile, apps, cloud,
and global connectivity. And, soon, when they’re
grappling to turn their digital transformation ideas
into reality, they’ll be able to turn to TechSoup’s Digital
Assessment tool, launching in early 2020.
“We are developing a methodology to help
organizations assess their work and understand
what they can do with digital technologies, [identify]
where they have gaps, and how they can
close them by connecting them to new solutions,
experts, or training resources,” Masisak says. The
assessment will provide individual NGOs both valuable
insights and recommendations to help them