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SCHOLARSHIPS

Tech Access and Inclusion Fund (TAIF)

In partnership with the Community Foundation of Western Iowa, (our 501c3 Fiscal Sponsor), the Tech Access and Inclusion Fund (Formerly the Omaha Data Science Academy Scholarship Fund) has created a fund that will provide dollars to train individuals enrolled in the Omaha Data Science Academy. 

 

The TAIF has two goals:

  1. To provide Access for low-income individuals to a high-paying careers that can improve their quality of life and build generational wealth.
  2. To diversify tech’s workforce by recruiting historically underrepresented populations in tech. 

Our goal of the TAIF is to cover the cost to train to be in tech, with a significant proportion of scholarships (at least 75%) allocated to women, BIPOC (Black, Indigenous, and People of Color), and/or low-income individuals from across the region. Live-streamed training takes place twice a week, making it accessible to people without childcare, with disabilities, and without transportation.

 

These families were disproportionately impacted by the pandemic, having lost income, burned through savings, and taken on debt to survive, according to a 2021 report by the University of Nebraska Omaha. Women lost jobs at a higher rate during the pandemic, and most of the nation’s 6.6 million jobs gained since January have gone to men, according to the U.S. Department of Labor. The hardest hit were women with less education who worked low-paying, hourly jobs with no benefits. 

 

TAIF will recruit from across the Omaha/western Iowa metro region, but recruitment will focus heavily on low-income areas in North and South Omaha, which has a higher poverty level than the rest of the area. 

An application for enrollment must be received prior to applying for a scholarship.

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Our Partners

The TAIF partners with multiple organizations to help build the Tech Community in and around Omaha. Individually they are building amazing things, but together, we are more than the sum of our individual parts.

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