Who We Are
Launched in 2014, Vets Who Code is a non-profit dedicated to filling the nation's technical skills gap with America’s best. We achieve this by using technology to connect and train veterans remotely in web development in order to close the digital talent gap and ease career transition for military veterans and to give military spouses skills to provide stability as they move to support their families. We believe that those who serve in uniform can be the digital economy’s most productive and innovative. Vets Who Code prepares them to enter the civilian workforce with tangible skills for new careers.

Vets Who Code is a reintegration solution for veterans that believes in the principle of "To Teach a Man To Fish" to better prepare early-stage transitioning veterans for returning to the workforce. Many veterans are not homeless but are un- and under-employed. Some have a deep desire to be independent business owners. Their skill sets are desperately needed to enhance local economies and to drive innovation. Vets Who Code serves as a launchpad for our veterans and military spouses.

What We Do
At Vets Who Code, we take a small cohort of veterans and spouses twice a year and over the course of sixteen weeks train them in programming with a deep focus on Javascript, the language of the web. We do this all remotely using the best tools and resources the tech community has to offer. We do this at zero cost to the troop beyond them contributing to one of our teams and helping each other become better programmers.

How We Do This
How we accomplish this mission is through a process of Crawl, Walk, Run whereas we teach them programming we build upon each lesson in deeper dives so that they become better programmers through each iteration. All this while being lead by instructors who are also veterans, and programmers, and alumni of the program. That way there are no excuses, the person teaching you the craft has been through every success and failure you will experience and has ultimately succeeded on the path of becoming a paid programmer.