Code2040, a San Francisco nonprofit working to increase diversity in the technology industry, has raised $5.6 million to fuel a major expansion as it navigates a tense political climate.
The new funding from the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation and others comes as diversity advocates face a sharp backlash over their efforts to bring groups of people long marginalized by the tech industry into companies that remain largely white and Asian male.
The broadsides against diversity began after last year's election of President Trump that brought attacks on initiatives that prioritized women and people of color and heated up with the firing in August of a Google employee who blasted the company's diversity policies. READ MORE AT USA TODAY
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