We help organizations train, mentor, network, and encourage people to fully participate in using and creating technology. We reach out to people who are traditionally underserved and underrepresented amongst the makers of technology.

We provide online resources, open source curriculum, and other support infrastructure for an extended volunteer network to host in-person workshop events and online events and activities where participants learn coding and other technical or communications skills through hands-on projects and interactive activities.

Most of our volunteer teachers and students want to focus on specific programming languages. So for each technical area there is a “Bridge” (examples include GoBridge, RailsBridge and RustBridge.

Local volunteers are empowered to host single workshops or establish active regional or online communities within a Bridge. We also offer self-serve curriculum for technical skills (such as test-first development) and teaching skills (for parents, school teachers and volunteers). Bridge Foundry helps connect volunteers to each other and seeks to sustainable communities of people who are empowering the underserved by teaching and facilitating access to technical skills.

Our other activities include:

• Conflict resolution and inclusion training for volunteers and employers
• Informal study groups, hack sessions, and other gatherings that support the growth of participants
• Open source projects that provide participants opportunities to strengthen their skills, such as programming, product definition, project management, and design.