About Us

Code Tenderloin works with individuals left out of San Francisco’s economic gains to prepare, stabilize, and teach them job readiness and life skills for entering the workforce giving members of our community radical opportunities. Our goal is to increase employment rates for men and women of color, formerly incarcerated or homeless individuals, and to provide them with support needed to get them employed – and ultimately into a meaningful career. Founded by longtime Tenderloin resident Del Seymour in 2015, Code Tenderloin works specifically with populations that have had challenges or barriers to accessing good paying jobs.

Our Mission

Providing empowerment, dignity, and opportunity by removing barriers on your road to employment.

ABOUT THE TENDERLOIN

Take a walk through the Tenderloin and you will see two very different worlds. There is the world in which the various technology companies and their thousands of employees foster an innovative culture and the promise of endless financial opportunities. Then there’s the other world. A world of poverty, homelessness, drug abuse, hopelessness, and desolation. Most people are afraid of this world and avoid it at all cost. They find it easier to ignore it’s overwhelming problems than attempt to help address and resolve those problems.

As more tech companies move into this area, the disparity between these worlds grows.

HOW IT STARTED.

Code Tenderloin began in 2015 by Deleano Seymour, a long-time Tenderloin resident,  who founded the Tenderloin Walking Tours. After five years and hundreds of walking tours around his beloved neighborhood, he was compelled to address the injustice he saw among its disenfranchised residents. Code Tenderloin is a community-based project whose mission is to remove barriers that keep people from securing long term employment, such as finances, legal, soft skills, technical skills, childcare, transportation and education. Code Tenderloin believes that a history with difficult issues including substance abuse, mental health, education level,

Homelessness or prior incarceration does not disqualify you from securing work.