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The core goal of Stack Exchange is education. Everything we build is geared toward helping people learn from one another -- not just the nuts and bolts of their profession or passion, but the universal skills of how to better communicate and learn. As we've grown as a company, we've benefited from many resources to assist in educating developers out of our office space, including hosting [local meetups](http://www.meetup.com/WomenWhoCodeNYC/events/206151292/) and partnering with the Flatiron School and Fog Creek for a [mentorship program](http://blog.flatironschool.com/post/107229276393/fog-creek-and-the-nyc-web-development-fellowship).

Today, we’re excited to announce our partnership with the [New York City Tech Talent Pipeline](http://www1.nyc.gov/site/forward/initiatives/tech-talent.page), <NAME>’s new initiative designed to increase the number of qualified candidates for open tech positions in New York City.





## That’s nice. But how?



The city has brought together [a number of major companies that hire developers in NYC](http://www.techtalentpipeline.nyc/) and asked us to do two things:



	
  1. Join a committee designed to help the city identify ways it can use its resources to attack the problem more broadly (through the education system, etc.), and

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title: 'Education begins at home: Improving developer training in NYC'
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The core goal of Stack Exchange is education. Everything we build is geared toward helping people learn from one another -- not just the nuts and bolts of their profession or passion, but the universal skills of how to better communicate and learn. As we've grown as a company, we've benefited from many resources to assist in educating developers out of our office space, including hosting [local meetups](http://www.meetup.com/WomenWhoCodeNYC/events/206151292/) and partnering with the Flatiron School and Fog Creek for a [mentorship program](http://blog.flatironschool.com/post/107229276393/fog-creek-and-the-nyc-web-development-fellowship).

Today, we’re excited to announce our partnership with the [New York City Tech Talent Pipeline](http://www1.nyc.gov/site/forward/initiatives/tech-talent.page), <NAME>’s new initiative designed to increase the number of qualified candidates for open tech positions in New York City.





## That’s nice. But how?



The city has brought together [a number of major companies that hire developers in NYC](http://www.techtalentpipeline.nyc/) and asked us to do two things:



	
  1. Join a committee designed to help the city identify ways it can use its resources to attack the problem more broadly (through the education system, etc.), and

	
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