Support Bootstrap

Join Our Volunteer Corps

3 Hours a Week. 10 Weeks.

You or your company can get involved by donating your time, and sharing your expertise and passion with young people in your community. Volunteer teachers typically spend about two hours a week in the classroom (always accompanied by a trained teacher), and another hour or so preparing for each lesson at whatever time is convenient for them. Ten weeks later, their students present their work to an audience of their peers, their parents and teachers.

Google NYC has sponsored four different Bootstrap classes, with employees teaching young people in Brooklyn and Harlem. IBM and Thomson/Reuters have sponsored classes in Dorchester and Mattapan. Talented individuals have teamed up with their friends to lead classes in Roslindale, Providence, Austin, San Jose and Redwood City. Join our volunteer corps, and sponsor a Bootstrap site near you!

Financial Contributions

A donation is a wonderful way to support Bootstrap! Your gift will help us recruit and train volunteers, further develop our software and curricular materials, and continue to bring functional programming to children around the country. (What's more, your gift is tax-deductible!)

To contribute...
Send a check made out to Brown University to our PI, Shriram Krishnamurthi, at his mailing address. Be sure to include this letter, indicating that you wish for the funds to be put towards Bootstrap. Once your check is received, we'll send you a reciept for your tax records.