About Us
Our goals and metrics
| Code.org Goal | Accomplishment |
|---|---|
| Inspire students | Tens of millions of students have tried the Hour of Code. |
| Create fantastic courses | 99% of teachers recommend the Code.org intro CS curriculum |
| Reach classrooms | Our intro courses are in 90,000 classrooms, reaching 4M students |
| Improve diversity in CS | In our online courses, 43% of students are girls and 37% are black or Hispanic. In our high school classrooms, 34% are girls, and 60% African American or Hispanic |
| Prep new CS teachers | We’ve prepared 4,000 new teachers across grades K-12. |
| Change school district curriculum | 60+ districts are adding CS classes with us, including all the largest 7 in the US |
| Set up policies to support CS | Policy changed in 16 states including CA, NY, FL, IL, OH. |
| Go global | Our courses are available in 30+ languages, used in all 180+ countries. |
More information, history, and philosophy
Code.org launched in 2013 as a project of co-founders Ali and Hadi Partovi. Our initial work was a video that became #1 on YouTube for a day, and 15,000 schools reached out to us for help. Since then, we’ve expanded to build a full organization supporting a a worldwide movement. Our goal is for computer science to be a fixed part of school curriculum. To support our goal, we do work across the education spectrum: designing our own courses or partnering with others, training teachers, partnering with large school districts, helping change government policies, expanding internationally via partnerships, and marketing to break stereotypes. Our work builds upon decades of effort, by countless organizations and individuals who have helped establish, fund, and spread computer science education. We’re thankful to benefit from the tireless help of the broader computer science education community.
- Code.org 2014 Annual Report
- Code.org overview brochure (PDF)
- TEDx talk by our founder Hadi Partovi about why computer science is for all (VIDEO)
- A letter from our founder addressing misconceptions about our motivations
We believe that a quality computer science education should be available to every child, not just a lucky few. All curriculum resources and tutorials we author are free to use under a Creative Commons license, and our technology is developed as an open source project.
Donors
Code.org® is a registered public 501c3 nonprofit, with support from the general public. We are grateful for the generous support we’ve received from individuals and organizations who support our vision.
Code’s accomplishments (above) demonstrate our ability to leverage those dollars into strong outcomes. But given our nonprofit ambition that every child in every school should have access to computer science — to become literate citizens in today’s digital world and to test their interests in exploring CS further as a career — we have a long way to go to meet a fundraising goal that will support that vision.
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Please contact us if you, your company, or your foundation is interested in talking with our leadership team further to better understand our program and to explore options for investing in our work.