Donor Supported Non Profit

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Do you ever think about, as having created this non profit, what if i had made this for a profit? Does that ever go through your mind? I'm curious. We're much more interested in optimise for the long term. What's the donation base? Like every year, what was it last year? What is it this year? Co you postu, not anyway. Rigt, it's published. Ye, we got bout three hundred seventy one thousand dollars. So it's not a lot of money, but it's enough to suport a small team and pay for servers. You don't have any big cash downers. We had people that are given a thousand...

0:50 Jason thanks the front-line workers & intros freeCodeCamp's Quincy Larson
7:45 Why & how did Quincy start freeCodeCamp? What is freeCodeCamp?
12:16 Jason & Quincy discuss starting & running large online communities, benefits of Discord & Slack
15:36 Can you jump right in on freeCodeCamp.org? What types of certifications do they offer?
17:38 COVID-19's impact on user growth & why Quincy is emulating Red Cross, YMCA & other non-profits
21:19 Do they track outcomes at freeCodeCamp, how do they compare to Lambda School?
26:05 Can anyone become a web developer? How many hours would it take for an average high school graduate to be able to build a 1.0 version of Twitter or Shopify?
35:09 Quincy shares some freeCodeCamp success stories
41:21 What's the quickest way to get a job through coding? What program should an aspirational developer start learning first?
45:57 Should new developers prioritize mobile development to maximize earning potential?
48:24 What % of freeCodeCamp users are non-US? Which country has shown the most potential?
50:44 What does the post-COVID world look like for developers?
53:21 freeCodeCamp's developer cards project