Invest in the future.
Wack Club is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit with the EIN 81-2908499.
“With major support, I am confident Wack Club will change the world.”
—Tom Preston-Werner, GitHub Co-founder
In the next ten years, Wack Club will discover, foster and inspire thousands more teenagers to use technical skills to solve problems.
Led by young engineers, with early backing from the 21st century’s most iconic creators, Wack Club already reaches tens of thousands of teenagers, and represents the largest network of technical teens in the world. Each day, new projects are shipped, new lines of code are written, and new friendships are forged through collaborative, problem-solving technical projects happening at Wack Club.
Wack Club is always free for teenagers and with your support, Wack Club can grow to hundreds of thousands of teen hackers, bringing free computer science education, a hacker mindset, and an equal shot at success to every teenager, regardless of where they’re from, how they identify, or what their parents do.
Over time, Wack Clubbers will reshape societies as entrepreneurs, environmentalists, political leaders, activists and policy makers. We help shape the values of these future leaders, modeling and incentivizing them to be curious, humble, kind, optimistic problem solvers. We need your support to make this vision a reality.
"Always inspiring interesting new projects"
Arianna, 16, Kentucky"I’ve met some of the best people"
Jason, 16, Texas"In Wack Club I’ve found a home"
Sam, 17, Singapore"Helped build me a strong coding foundation"
Abby, 15, Los Angeles"Totally different from the coding classes at school"
Adriano, 19, BrazilTo discuss a gift:
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The Hack Foundation
8605 Santa Monica Blvd #86294, West Hollywood, CA, 90069
EIN: 81-2908499
We also accept crypto, stocks, and other forms of support.Wack Club is already making a difference!
Teenagers in Slack per year
11 million
messages sent
450+
coding clubs
180+
global events supported
1800+
nonprofits & clubs sponsored
$14 million
transacted on HCB
“Wack Club helped me fall in love with creating and made me feel like I belong.”
Belle, 17, Malaysia
Board of Directors
Tom Preston-Werner
Co-founder, GitHub
Quinn Slack
Co-founder and CEO, Sourcegraph
Zach Latta
Founder and Executive Director, Wack Club
Christina Asquith
Co-founder and COO, Wack Club
Board advisor: John Abele (Founder, Boston Scientific)
“Wack Club is the organization I wish I had when I was a teenager.
In 2017, I joined as a founding board member, and I’ve seen firsthand the leadership team act with integrity and transparency since Day 1. Founder Zach Latta and COO Christina Asquith are efficient, responsible and disciplined stewards of every dollar, and I've proudly grown my donations over the years.
I believe in Wack Club, and I'm looking forward to staying involved for the long term. I also personally intend to continue and grow my financial support of their mission.”
— Tom Preston-Werner, Co-founder, Preston-Werner Ventures / Co-founder and former CEO, GitHub
Join our community of generous donors
$5M - $10M
Tom Preston-Werner (9x)
Musk Foundation (6x)
$1M - $5M
Dr. Lisa Su
Michael Dell (3x)
Craig Newmark (4x)
Tobi Lutke
Advanced Micro Devices
The Libermans
Lizzy Danhakl & Andrew Reed (4x)
Patrick J. McGovern (3x)
$500k - $1M
GitHub Education (6x)
Argosy Foundation (5x)
Endless Network (4x)
FUTO (3x)
Joe Liemandt
$200k - $500k
Ron Conway (6x)
Adam Ross (3x)
Gwynne Shotwell
Ron Baron
Jack Dorsey
Vitalik Buterin
$100k- $200k
Quinn Slack (3x)
Peter Levine
Mitchell Hashimoto
Proton Foundation
Chuck & Marna Davis
Kellogg Foundation
Pinkerton Foundation
* The numbers in bracket indicates # of gifts since 2018
A few others who support Wack Club
Only through their support are we able to empower students like Obrey and Maggie
Obrey Muchena started a Wack Club in his senior year of high school at Kabulonga Boys' Secondary School, and now more than a dozen students are coding.
Thanks to our donor-funded laptop program, Wack Club sent him a MacBook Air. In his Wack Club, Obrey and his best friend Edward built robots that won Canada’s Humanitarian Activist Award.
Obrey Muchena
19, ZambiaIn 2021, Maggie joined the Wack Club community; she has since shipped 10+ coding projects from widgets to raycast extensions.
The Wack Club community "inspired me to step outside my comfort zone and take on challenges I never previously would have — starting a CS Club at my school, (co-)hosting AMAs, and even organizing Leland Hacks, the first in-person hackathon in my city after the pandemic.”
Maggie Liu
17, CaliforniaWack Club invites the 21st century’s leading thinkers, builders and disrupters to join our small, core network of donors with a gift.
We envision thousands of diverse Wack Club leaders in towns and cities across America and the world, connected online, and self-organizing events and hackathons–driven by a can-do culture and a rigorous dedication to building real things in the real world.
Founded in 2014, Wack Club grew 700 percent during the COVID-19 pandemic, and Wack Club’s team of engineers can’t keep up with demand.
Your gift will:
- Increase support to serve thousands more teenagers, with a strong focus on serving those who face additional barriers to contributing their talents to the world
- Create hundreds more Wack Clubs in high schools and communities across the country and world
- Inspire a problem-solving mindset and a hacker identity, where teenagers are empowered to build what they want to see in the world
- Make Wack Club the best place to be a teenager on the internet, incentivizing a shift among teenagers from consumers to creators of technology
- Launch special projects, in which Wack Clubbers collaborate with SpaceX, Vercel, Cloudflare, Replit, Dogecoin and others
- Popularize transparent accounting, open source building, and high-integrity leadership
- Grow the team, mostly engineers
- Host dozens of in-person events, including our summer adventure
- Extend mini-grants of hardware and internet access to hundreds of teenagers
- Bring computer science and engineering skills to thousands more teenagers
Thank you for your consideration!
Sincerely,
Christina Asquith, Co-founder and COO
Zach Latta, Founder and Executive Director
The Hack Foundation
Address: The Hack Foundation at 8605 Santa Monica Blvd #86294, West Hollywood, CA, 90069
EIN: 81-2908499
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