We’re happy to announce that we are one of the first official sponsors of Women Who Code! WWCode is an organization whose goal is to help women excel in technology careers.

WWCode and Yelp started working together three years ago when the meetup group was created. We’ve hosted many of their events ranging from Ruby workshops to discussion panels including CEOs and CTOs. Since their launch, WWCode has grown to 14,000 members across 14 countries worldwide. By sponsoring their new non-profit (as of this July!), we’re excited and happy to help them achieve their goals of expanding into 50 cities worldwide by 2015 with 1 million members by 2019.

As WWCode expands, they’re looking to reach out to top technical universities around the nation in order to introduce women to engineering at a younger age. We will be partnering with them at their first pilot university, Waterloo, this fall.

“Yelp has supported most of Women Who Code’s major events over the past three years,” said Alaina Percival, WWCode CEO. “Collaborating with Yelp will be key in reaching our goal of being in 50 cities by the end of the year.”

Want to get involved? You can help support WWCode by attending one of their upcoming events listed here:

Grace Hopper Practice Talks

September 23, 2014

Doors open: 6:30PM

Yelp HQ

Women Who Code Fundraiser - Applaud Her

October 23, 2014

Doors open: 6:00PM

Zendesk HQ

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