Access to the internet is often critical for accessing basic needs such as employment, education, healthcare and banking. However, global disparities in broadband access present significant challenges.

The GitLab Foundation announced the Learning for Action Fund, a new capacity-building initiative that allows existing foundation grantees to apply for up to $50,000 in additional funding for learning activities. Our goal is to increase organizations’ capacity for impact measurement, learning, experimentation, and feedback activities.

Two GitLab Foundation grantees working at the forefront of increasing access to higher education, weighed in on the impact of recent changes and how they’re approaching their work within the current landscape.

With a GitLab Foundation grant, mRelief aims to use AI to increase SNAP application approval rates even further. Our CEO sat down with mRelief’s executive director and chief technology officer to discuss the organization’s mission, how they overcome challenges, and their plans for the future.

To illustrate the impact of green jobs, we looked to Coalfield Development, a GitLab Foundation grantee with a proven workforce development model that has unlocked more than $4 million in public and private funds to expand its programs in Appalachian communities.

Buildher, a GitLab Foundation grantee in Kenya, equips women with accredited construction and manufacturing skills, but its goals go far beyond that. Buildher aims to drive economic mobility for women, change perceptions in traditionally male-dominated fields and promote gender equality.

We are excited to announce a new $3 million Green Jobs for Economic Opportunity Fund to support nonprofits and partnerships in exploring or developing early-stage initiatives to improve economic mobility.

CodePath, a GitLab Foundation grantee, helps historically excluded and underserved students find success in the tech industry: there is a 97% increase in successful job or internship placement among Black, Latino/a, and Indigenous students after taking a CodePath course.

The GitLab Foundation has teamed up with Robin Hood to launch the AI Poverty Challenge, a new initiative to advance AI-based solutions that drive upward mobility for people living in poverty.

Discover what we have learned as we implemented and adjusted our impact measurement model and made our first grants.

New grants were awarded to GRID Alternatives, SkillUp Coalition and Tech Impact in support of each organization’s innovative work to train individuals for lucrative, in-demand careers.

At the GitLab Foundation, we seek to build on the work of these innovative leaders to create accurate and meaningful estimates on the potential impacts of our investments. Get our learnings and updates as we refine our impact estimation model.

Thirteen organizations receive funding from the GitLab Foundation AI for Economic Opportunity Fund to scale innovations that drive high income gains and advance economic mobility.

The GitLab Foundation’s first international grants in Colombia and Kenya focus on increasing access to quality education and job opportunities, and addressing socioeconomic barriers to success.

At the 2023 Clinton Global Initiative, GitLab Foundation announced a three-year, $10 million commitment to action to accelerate how emerging technology, such as AI, can create economic opportunity globally.

A recent visit to Colombia revealed promising new opportunities for the foundation. The trip was part of our strategy to carry out on-the-ground, deep-dive research into potential geographic investment areas.

The GitLab Foundation and OpenAI are partnering to award more than $2 million in funding to nonprofits using artificial intelligence (AI) to increase economic opportunity outcomes for workers and learners.

We’re delighted to partner with CodePath to support 500-600 computing students at institutions across the United States. With this grant, CodePath will upgrade and expand its industry-leading Technical Interview Prep courses, which correlate with high levels of internship and technical job attainment, ensuring that students access high-wage career trajectories. The organization will also continue to invest in additional data and evaluation capabilities to build evidence of the efficacy of its interventions.

Our latest grant supports RiseKit, a technology platform that enables employers to recruit candidates from networks of community-based nonprofits. RiseKit’s software connects employers’ applicant tracking systems (ATS’s) with the client management systems of these community-based organizations, creating linkages between these overlooked candidates and unfilled jobs.

Code the Dream offers high-quality, free training in software development to people from diverse, low-income backgrounds. The ultimate aim is to create a unique win-win situation, in which coders gain real experience building apps that make the world a little better, and then use that experience to launch new careers providing significant opportunities for themselves, their families, and their communities.