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National Center for Women and Information Technology University of Colorado Boulder

Boulder, CO
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Mission

Part 1: the mission of the national center for women and information technology is to ensure that women are fully represented in the influential world of information technology/computing. While other organizations are focused on the broader issues of science, math, and engineering, this effort is unique in its exclusive focus on information technology.Ncwit's work leverages the efforts of organizations across the country, and connects efforts to increase women's participation in it along the entire pipeline, from k-12 and higher education through industry, academic careers, affinity groups, and entrepreneurial endeavors. Ncwit encourages its members to undertake institutional change within their organizations, and our work provides them with the tools and support to be change agents. - Part 3: the mission of the national center for women and information technology is to ensure that women are fully represented in the influential world of information technology/computing. While other organizations are focused on the broader issues of science, math, and engineering, this effort is unique in its exclusive focus on information technology. Ncwit's work leverages the efforts of organizations across the country, and connects efforts to increase women's participation in it along the entire pipeline, from k-12 and higher education through industry, academic careers, affinity groups, and entrepreneurial endeavors. Ncwit encourages its members to undertake institutional change within their organizations, and our work provides them with the tools and support to be change agents.

  • Website: http://WWW.NCWIT.ORG
  • Phone: 3037356703
  • Principal Officer: LUCINDA SANDERS
  • EIN
    EIN: 680591481
  • Revenue: $6,944,412
  • Assets: $16,602,508
  • Expenses: $8,937,330

National Center for Women and Information Technology University of Colorado Boulder
1909 26th St FL 2nd
Boulder, CO 80302
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Categories Gender equality and employment

All Programs

Messaging and outreach expenses to develop national strategy for increasing women's participation in the it field. Messaging and outreach includes comprehensive web site development to support alliance members, as well as resource distribution, alliance building, public relations, press development, social media, the audio podcast series on "entrepreneurial heroes interviews", and the national advocacy campaign, sit with ME, the counselors for computing program, as well as the newly developed technolochicas campaign. Outreach includes increased presence at national conferences, including, but not limited to, sigcse, iste, aera, swe, grace hopper celebration of women in computing, among others.

Award programs- award programs include the ncwit award for aspirations in computing for high school girls, the ncwit collegiate award, the ncwit aspireit SEED fund program which awards up to $5,000 to alliance members to partner with aspirations winners and run technology camps for middle school aged girls, the symons innovator award honoring entrepreneurial women in the it field, the educator award honoring high school teachers who encourage their female students to pursue computer science, robotics and engineering opportunities, , the academic alliance SEED grants program that awards academic alliance members start-up funds (up to $10,000 per project) to develop and implement initiatives for recruiting and retaining women in computing and information technology, the pioneer award to recognize individuals whose lifetime contributions have changed the way we think about women's participation in the history of computing and technology, the undergraduate research mentoring award which recognizes faculty for their accomplishments and work in mentoring undergraduate students, the ncwit harrold and notkin research and graduate mentoring award which recognizes faculty for their accomplishments in graduate student mentoring, ncwit extension services next award that celebrates past and present extension services clients for their excellence in recruiting and retaining women into undergraduate programs, the engagecsedu award which recognizes faculty for excellent and engaging introductory computer science curriculum, and the reboot representation program which aims to double the number of black, latinx and native american women receiving computing degrees.

Regional education initiatives - expenses for a regional focused initiative designed to increase the number of technical women in the southeastern United States. This initiative includes aspireit educational programs for middle school, high school, and college women; counselors for computing training opportunities for professional school counselors, and aspirations in computing community scholarship, internship, and networking opportunities. In addition, women May apply for workforce skill development funds to attend various technical training courses to further expand their technical capabilities.