About Us

Everyone deserves the opportunity for physical, mental, and economic well-being. 

Transitional backgrounds—including unemployment, homelessness, addiction, incarceration, or any other barriers—do not define your future. We’re here to put you on the path to full-time, living-wage employment.

We remove barriers for vulnerable communities and people living below the poverty line. 

Our free programming and community outreach include job skills and tech training, networking opportunities, basic family services, violence reduction, and more. See a full list of our programs.

Our Impact

  • Over 18,000 community members have walked through our doors

  • Over 1,500 participants have graduated from our Code Ramp Program

  • 87% of our participants land jobs, and 74% of our participants are people of color

  • 100% of our participants have a professional resume, LinkedIn profile, and mock interview experience with volunteers from the corporate community and HR professionals and have received mentorship

  • 95% of our participants graduate from our Job Readiness Program, and of those participants, 90% placed in jobs or higher education out of Code Tenderloin

  • Of those who were placed in jobs, 46% remain in the same job 12 months after graduating from Code Tenderloin and the other 54% find better jobs, attend degree/Bootcamp programs, or find themselves again unemployed, returning to Code Tenderloin

A Letter From Our Founder

As the Executive Director of Code Tenderloin, I am honored to lead such a passionate team, dedicated to helping people change their lives for the better. Code Tenderloin was started with the idea of bringing economic equity to the marginal and needy populations living in and around the San Francisco Tenderloin neighborhood. 

Every day in the Tenderloin, people have to resort to all types of menial and sometimes illegal behaviors in order to provide themselves and their families with the basic needs and wants in life. When you cross over Market Street, it is a whole different world simply because people are in jobs making $80,000, $120,000, or more a year. I wanted the people in the Tenderloin and other San Francisco neighborhoods to be able to gain access to those same opportunities for economic stability. I wanted them to face the decision of where they were going to send their kids to college, rather than if they could send them.

Code Tenderloin is the people we serve and our success is measured in the changes in their lives, the lives of their families, and the strength of their communities. Since its beginning in 2015, Code Tenderloin has helped hundreds of folks move up to the next level of living—gain a community, become housed, stay out of prison, and realize they can get a job or career. Many of our graduates have gotten nice apartments, cars, and well-paying jobs. Many have returned to school, following their dreams, and building their education. One is even pursuing her law degree.

As Code Tenderloin grows, the one thing that will never change is that we put the people we serve and our ability to best support them first. Thank you to everyone who has given their time, energy, and generous donations to support us and our people. Together, we have changed so many lives. Together, we can continue to change many more.

Sincerely,

Del Seymour