The Iron Yard, Code Fellows and Operation HOPE announced on Friday that together they’re launching the Tech Opportunity Fund, an attempt to increase diversity in tech by offering more diversity scholarships.

Code schools, like The Iron Yard, Code Fellows, General Assembly and more are, undoubtedly, already helping to increase access to technical training and jobs. A bootcamp with any of these schools is considerably more financially accessible than, say, a four-year computer science degree. Still, $13,000 or $14,000 for three months of immersive training, during which the student may not be able to hold down a job, is too high a price for many.

This is where need-based diversity scholarships come in. General Assembly has its own such scholarship program called, similarly, the Opportunity Fund.

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