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Headquartered in Charleston, SC , Blackbaud leads the world in powering software for social good – which includes: nonprofits, schools, healthcare organizations and other institutions. According to their website, “Our vision is to power an ecosystem of good that builds a better world.”Apparently, they have been building a better world, and Forbes Magazine has recognized them building a better company, that understands and appreciates the value of diversity.

Forbes recently included Blackbaud as one of America’s Best Employers for Diversity 2018, in the IT, Internet/Software and Services category. This category also includes other companies such as Google, Amazon, Microsoft and Paypal. These companies were chosen based on anonymous, independent surveys from working Americans.

On their website, Blackbaud discussed how they focused on growing their diversity program for the past two years, through education, awareness, recruiting, and community involvement initiatives. They also launched additional initiatives that focused on diversity, they stated:

“The recent launch of affinity groups; unconscious bias training; diversity audits and benchmarking; partnering with United Negro College Fund (UNCF) for the STEM Innovation Summit; Blackbaud Executive Women’s Summit and Blackbaud Women in Tech events; third party partnerships (ex. Fortune mentoring programs); participation as an executive board member for the SC Lowcountry Business Leadership Network focused on hiring and retaining disabled employees.”

According to Forbes, 76% of jobs in tech are held by men; and for Blacks and Latinos the numbers seem even more bleak – the makeup computes to only about 5% of the tech workforce. With tech being a major component in our lives, it is vital that we are a part of this field. With the recent controversy of people demanding more diversity in tech and Silicon Valley, it’s great to see a company, launched in the great city of Charleston, SC being recognized globally for diversity in tech.

You can see the entire Forbes listing here.

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Want to grow with Google? This week the tech giant introduced an initiative to help train American tech workers for jobs. They have dedicated $1 billion over the next 5 years to schools, professional training, and non profits to help workers get the skills and training they need.

If you’ve never visited their Grow With Google platform, you should; they have free resources for businesses, students, and entrepreneurs to help improve your skills, businesses and career. Their goal: “to allow anyone with an internet connection to become proficient with technology and prepare for a job in areas like IT support and app development.”

Google’s Chief Executive, Sundar Pichai said during his speech this week

“We understand there’s uncertainty and even concern about the pace of technological change, but we know that technology will be an engine of America’s growth for years to come. The nature of work is fundamentally changing and that shift is the link between education, training and opportunity.”

In the coming months, Google will hit the road in order to spread its message regarding the program. Their first stops are, Indianapolis; Oklahoma City; Lansing, Mich; and Savannah, GA.

If you’re interested in ways you can Grow With Google; perhaps you want to start a computer science club at your school, get listed on Google and grow your website, launch a career in IT support, or apply for developer scholarships – all of that info is on the Grow With Google platform.

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“I walked around the music industry for a bunch of years, right? I saw a lot of rich people. I didn’t see wealthy. I got into the tech industry, I see wealthy every day. The Snapchat CEO is 24 years old and a billionaire. How many billionaires do I have to walk around the music industry to find? I’m in Silicon Valley, I’m in L.A., I’m in Santa Monica, and I’m seeing billionaires all over the place. And they’re young. That’s not in the music industry.”

-Chamillionaire Interview with Vice, 2015

During the NCAA playoff, there were some folks who decided to take digs at rapper Chamillionaire. The rapper was seen sitting court-side, and that’s when the internet went IN. Many were wondering how the rapper was able to afford those seats because he, “hasn’t had a hit in years”.

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There are a few details about the world-wide web that we must remember: people are quick to judge, people are quick to throw shots, and people do not take the time to research. What many don’t realize is not only did Chamillionaire have a successful run in the rap game, the young Houston native was smart enough to take what he learned in the music business and expand into other, very lucrative opportunities.

Chamillionaire did something that many of us have to train ourselves to do more often; that is, pay attention to what is going on around you. Is your industry growing, changing, or evolving? How about your city – what type of companies are moving and leaving your area? Can you live the way you want by continuing to do what you do? These questions and more are vital when making career and business moves, and these are the types of observations that Chamillionaire made when he decided to take the jump from the music industry into the tech industry.

In an interview withVice, shortly after his hit, “Riding Dirty”, Chamillionaire began to dabble in the tech world. He began going to to tech conferences, mingling with venture capitalists, and making investments into other tech companies. Chamillionaire then moved into advising for startups and investors. In 2014 at the age of 35, he invested in an online video network, Maker Studios. Maker was acquired by Disney for $500 million, with a promise to make another $450 million. Though Chamillionaire would not go into detail how much he made from that investment, he says that he, “expects to make way more doing this than what he did as a rapper.”

Chamillionaire has dreams of becoming a founder and spends his time, researching, learning, and soaking in the lessons of the venture capital world. The rapper spent time among these billionaires, took up a residency within a venture capital firm so that he could learn more, sits in on meetings, takes notes, and uses what he learns to educate his rap counterparts and others.

Big Boi from Outkast was recently on The Breakfast Club Morning Show,proudly proclaiming how he, Kelly Rowland, Trey Songs, E40, Ceelo and many others have teamed up with Chamillionaire in an investment syndicate, where they buy parts of tech companies, wait for them to turn a profit or get bought, and make lots of money.

Chamillionaire has not only been smart about his business moves, but he has been quiet, strategic, and not afraid to share his wealth of knowledge with this friends in the industry. So internet! Laugh all you want; in the meantime Chamillionaire is laughing all the way to the bank.

“When I was in Iraq, I was like, ‘OK, rap got me here.’ I’ll always keep that in my mind and realize that rap is what got me into this venture capital firm. Rap got me out of the hood. Rap got me out of Houston and helped me to see the world. But now that I’ve seen the world and I see so much, I’m just on this mission to let everybody else know—especially my peers in the music industry—about what’s happening over here.”

Source: Vice.com

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Amazon Tech Engineer looks to turn old school buses into mobile tech labs. Thomas Phillips, an Amazon Engineer, presented his idea to turn abandoned school buses in the city of Detroit into high tech mobile tech labs. The idea was presented in August at the Hack the Central District Cultural Innovation Conference (Hack the CD) in Seattle.

The concept is called “The Aspire Tech Bus” and this is where students would learn to code, work on projects and act as an develop their skills as an actual software development team. Phillips’ idea would provide students with the basic fundamental skills of front and back end development, to include HTML, CSS, and JavaScript NodeJS and ExpressJS. Students who get to board the “Aspire Tech Bus” would also learn business skills such as project management and establishing professional LinkdIn and email profiles.

Every student will receive a Raspberry PI computer, this device is a small, affordable computer built for the purpose of learning programming, in a fun, practical manner. During the course which will last 16-weeks, students will have developed a portfolio of completed coding projects that they would be able to present to a potential employer.

Thomas Phillips explained:
“I envision this project as a ‘high-tech, voc-tech, as giving students high-tech skills before college will better position them for success. Some of them will choose to pursue their education further at the college/ university level, others will venture into the entrepreneurial sector. Both of these have far reaching implications that reverberate across the world.”

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When President Obama first started is leadership as President of the United States, he required that his staff deliver him, at the most, ten letters per day. Since that day, President Obama reads at least ten letters (or 10 LADs) per day from the thousands that are sent to the White House. The President believes that this keeps in touch with the real world and what is going through the hearts and minds of the Citizens of this country.

Traditionally, the only way to get a message to the White House was through snail mail. In the 1800s, the White House started receiving phone calls. In the 1900s, the White House introduced submitting letters online. Now, in the new millennium, what cooler way to send a message to our Commander in Chief than through the use of social media?

Now, sending a personal note to the White House has gotten easier. For the first time in history, anyone can send a note to President Obama simply by messaging the White House on Facebook, the same way you message your friends. According the the White House website:

“The goal is “to meet people where they are. It’s why the President launched his own Twitter account and the First Lady is on Snapchat. It’s about creating opportunities for people to engage with their government in new and accessible ways, using the same technologies we already rely on in our daily lives. “

The tech part is pretty cool, but what is most important is that President Obama believes it is important to hear from YOU.

“To make sure that in all the hustle and bustle that’s taken place here, we don’t lose sight of why we’re here — which is a bunch of citizens all across the country, needing our help, seeking advice, more than occasionally being angry, wanting to be heard. And what’s interesting is not only do these letters help me to stay in touch with the people who sent me here, or the people who voted against me, but a lot of times they identify problems that might not have percolated up through the various agencies and bureaucracies. And more than once there have been occasions where these letters inspired action on real problems that are out there.”

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