As a company, Humble Bundle is known for selling digital content including games, software, ebooks, and lots more. What makesHumble Bundledifferent, though, is a portion of every purchase goes to charity. Each month Humble Bundle chooses a new charity to donate the accumulated proceeds to. For the month of March, Humble Bundle teamed up with the organizationGirls Who Code. This charity has reached over 500 million people worldwide through their advocacy work, online resources, books, and campaigns.
Humble Bundle has always been dedicated to giving to charity, with an ever-rotating list of new causes to contribute to. In the past, it has supported organizations like Make-A-Wish, WWF, and Zidisha, just to name a few.Girls Who Code is dedicated to closingthe gender gap in tech jobs and estimates it will be able to do so by 2027. This important organization not only works with girls to make room for them in tech environments but is incredibly inclusive and dedicated to helping underrepresented groups of girls.
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Girls Who Code
Girls Who Code is built on three core values; bravery, sisterhood, and activism. Through the program, girls not only learn about tech insights, but learn how to be ambitious, persistent, and resilient as part of the bravery tenet. Sisterhood within Girls Who Codelooks like a diverse group of peoplewho have different abilities, cultures, and identities that work together rather than apart. As for activism, the organization isn’t just about preparing girls for the workforce; it’s about helping them improve and completely transform the workplace into a more inclusive space. Girls Who Code also works with local policymakers to help close the gender gap in computer science found in K-12 classrooms, as states like Kentucky, Indiana, Colorado, and Florida have all seen legislation passed or policy changes.
Girls Who Code doesn’t exist in a bubble, either, and remains acutelyaware of other power dynamicsthat keep women out of the tech sphere. The organization makes a point to acknowledge how racial bias and discrimination help widen the gender gap and prioritizes who gets opportunities in computer science. Half of the girls served in the program come from historically underrepresented groups, including girls who are Black, Hispanic, Latinx, and Indigenous, just to name a few. The organization also makes sure to acknowledge how aspects like race and ethnicity, gender expression and identity, sexual orientation, class, and other parts of intersectional identities all come together to affect those in the program and their experience in life.
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Why Humble Bundle Chose Girls Who Code
Game Rantdiscussed Humble Bundle’s choice to partnerwith Girls Who Code with Kamini Tiwari, Humble’s VP of Social Impact. According to Tiwari, the company chose Girls Who Code because:
“Girls Who Code is an amazing non-profit doing profound work to close the gender gap in technology and change the image of what a programmer looks like and does. We’ve partnered with Girls Who Code in the past and they’ve been wonderful to work with, so having another opportunity to do so, especially during Women’s History Month was absolutely ideal.”
When asked about the specific game choice for March, Tiwari said that:
“For March Humble Choice, we wanted to feature a wide range of games so there was a little something for all types of gamers. Having Remedy Entertainment’s award-winningControllead the pack was the perfect fit because it’s simply an amazing game that we want to get in the hands of all gamers. We also thought it was incredibly fitting to celebrate a video game with a female lead during Women’s History Month.”
Though March’s Humble Bundle ended on April 6, the work Humble Bundle and Girls Who Code do is far from over. Those who want to get involved with Girls Who Code can find out more on the organization’s website. As for Humble Bundle, Tiwari confirmed the newest charity that will get a spotlight in April, saying:
“Humble Bundle has a longstanding commitment to social impact. From fighting pandemics to uplifting communities in need, we have been fortunate to work with remarkable nonprofits on important causes and charities focused on issues that touch on education, environment, health and wellbeing, equity, and inclusiveness. For April, in support of the Asian and Pacific Islander communities where heartbreaking and senseless violence has been on the rise, Humble will donate 5 percent of all Humble Choice sales in the month to the featured charity of the month, Stop AAPI Hate.”
April’s Humble Choice has tons of great gamesto choose from, with the main attraction beingSniper Ghost Warrior Contracts. Now players can help the Stop AAPI Hate organization while getting some amazing deals on various video games.
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