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This regional workshop series gives students ongoing and applied practice to reinforce content knowledge, skills, and mindsets to master technical interviews. Students review computer science concepts, learn crucial interviewing skills, and build their confidence by participating in mock coding interviews. 76% of our inaugural class earned internships or full-time jobs!

A team from Facebook is designing coursework for the United Negro College Fund Computer Science Summer Academy for 30 rising sophomores. Facebook will also co-host the Historically Black Colleges and Universities Computer Science Faculty Institute to offer computer science faculty professional development.

We’ve partnered with CodePath to help them scale their multi-year coding programs to more than 2,000 computer science students at over 20 schools, including public and private universities and community colleges with robust numbers of students from underrepresented groups. Our sponsorship helps CodePath encourage more students to major in computer science, increase the number of students who graduate, and improve employability of graduates in CS roles.

Our year-long rotational engineering program is designed to help programmers and software engineers from all backgrounds reach their full potential. The goal of the program is to help participants accelerate their professional growth and build skills they can use for the rest of their careers, learning about huge-scale distributed architecture and Facebook’s open graph technology concepts while benefiting from the mentorship of quality engineers.

Facebook’s Engineer for the Week is an immersive program for youth ages 13+ that introduces students to the fast-paced world of engineering. Through project-based experiences, EFTW hopes to inspire the next generation of diverse engineers.

The Align program, offered by Northeastern’s Khoury College of Computer Sciences, is a master’s in computer science degree program for people who didn’t study computer science at the undergraduate level and who don’t have programming experience. Align students take advantage of rigorous academic bridge courses that prepare them to take on master’s level coursework. They can also participate in a program that allows them to get four to eight months of real-world experience with one of our industry partners. Facebook has invested in the Align program and is working to help launch a consortium of schools to scale this innovative program across the country.

Moving money around globally should be as easy and cost-effective as (and even more safe and secure than) sending a text message or sharing a photo, no matter where you live, what you do, or how much you earn. The world truly needs a reliable digital currency and infrastructure that together can deliver on the promise of “the internet of money.” Libra’s mission is to enable a simple global currency and financial infrastructure that empowers billions of people.

Access is Facebook’s commitment to providing access to opportunity for our people in the neighborhoods that surround our company headquarters in Menlo Park. Through the access to employment and career development resources of Access, we build our shared community with our neighbors in East Palo Alto, Belle Haven, and North Fair Oaks.

#SheMeansBusiness is a space for entrepreneurial women to make valuable connections, share advice and move forward, together.

High-quality internet connectivity not only gives people a voice—it creates opportunities to share knowledge that can strengthen both local communities and global economies. Providing connectivity lies at the heart of Facebook’s mission to give people the power to build community and bring the world closer together. Visit the Facebook Connectivity website to see the details of our initiatives and find stories about how we’re addressing global connectivity challenges to build opportunity for people, businesses, and communities around the world.

Advancing civil rights is core to Facebook’s mission and will benefit us all. In 2018, Facebook undertook a civil rights audit guided by Laura Murphy, highly respected civil rights and civil liberties leader, and more than 90 leading civil rights organizations. As a result of this audit’s findings, we have updated a number of policies, procedures, and product features designed to prohibit voter suppression, hate, and discrimination. The audit remains ongoing, and we are committed to continuing to strengthen and advance civil rights on our platforms.

The Network of Support (NOS) includes six leading advocacy organizations that advise Facebook on issues that affect the LGBTQ+ (lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, questioning) community on our platforms. The NOS has provided feedback on Facebook’s content policies and community standards (for example, our authentic names policy). We’ve also worked with the NOS to launch educational initiatives, and product features like our custom gender options and Pride photo filter. NOS organizations include:

• GLAAD
• The Gay, Lesbian, Straight Education Network (GLSEN)
• The Human Rights Campaign (HRC)
• The Trevor Project
• The National Center for Transgender Equality (NCTE)
• Parents, Families & Friends of Lesbians and Gays (PFLAG)