$100 / year
- Your name on our supporters page
- Named across our social media channels
- The knowledge that you made a real impact in the lives of kids who need it
Become a sponsor
Sponsor the program where kids learn to run a real business.
First Click is a program of Quincy Coders built and run by student entrepreneurs and business consultants — kids who take on real local clients, quote real work, and ship it.
Your sponsorship keeps it running, and every dollar goes directly to Quincy Coders, the program, and the kids in it. At Gold and above, the students go to work for you in return.
Tax-deductible — Quincy Coders is a 501(c)(3), EIN 39-4218575. Many employers match charitable gifts, which can double your sponsorship at no cost to you.
- 100+
- kids served weekly
- 7
- free classes per week
- 9–12
- grades welcomed
- 100%
- volunteer-run
- ~1 wk
- website launch time
What the kids are actually learning
Anyone can teach a child to write code. First Click teaches them to find out what a customer needs, promise something, and deliver it — on the program’s own four steps, with a real business on the other end of every one.
1
Understand
Sit with a business owner and work out what they actually need, which is rarely what they first asked for.
2
Plan
Scope it, price it, and say what is and is not included — before any work starts.
3
Build & Connect
Ship to a real deadline. First Click launches websites in about a week.
4
Grow
Stay with the client afterwards, because the work is judged on whether it worked.
Talking to clients
Scoping & quoting
Meeting a deadline
Web development
Search visibility
Marketing
Accessibility
Business development
Accountability to a real customer
These are the skills that transfer — to a first job, a college application, or a business of their own.
Sponsorship tiers
Annual sponsorships.
$300 / year
- Everything in Silver
- A website & SEO review for your business
$1,000 / year
- Everything in Gold
- A complete website landing page for your business
- Free hosting for a year
Gold and Platinum put the students to work for you
Gold gets a website and SEO review: what loads slowly, what Google cannot read, what a customer cannot find — in plain language, not a score out of a hundred.
Platinum gets a complete landing page for your business, plus hosting for a year. First Click already runs 24/7 cloud hosting as one of its services, so this is the program doing what it does, not a favour bolted on.
Every deliverable is supervised by instructors before it reaches you. For the students it is a client, a deadline, and a brief they did not write — the three things a classroom exercise cannot fake.