Learn by operating real-world systems.

Free technical training for people who need opportunity the most.

Every program is free, including loaner equipment and shipping. See how your gift is used.

Why CCA exists

Employers used to sponsor technical training for their lowest-paid staff. Janitors, facilities workers and mailroom clerks could learn the systems their company ran on and move up.

Then the bottom rungs came off the ladder. Training budgets moved to people who already had credentials, and everyone else was left looking at job postings that all demanded experience they had no way to get. CCA puts those rungs back by handing people free access to the same networks, servers and cloud platforms professionals use every day.

Real systems, not simulations

Participants configure, operate and maintain live infrastructure. Changes have consequences and mistakes have to be cleaned up properly. That is the experience employers ask for and almost nobody will hand to a beginner.

Impact at a glance

What donor support has built so far.

1,000+ Devices in our equipment lending library, loaned free to participants

10+ Countries where participants are learning on CCA infrastructure

$1,500 Average replacement cost of a single enterprise device in the library

100% Free to participants, including loaner equipment and shipping both ways

Careers Participants have gone on to paid technical roles at established technology employers

Degrees Participants have earned industry certifications and completed master’s degrees

See our full impact report

What we teach

All free, and all running on systems that are actually in production.

Networking & infrastructure

VLANs, routing, switching, firewalls and enterprise hardware, configured on physical switches, routers and hypervisors in our own datacenter.

Cloud & identity

Cloud fundamentals, identity and access management, single sign-on and directory services, run on live tenants with real users behind them.

Cybersecurity fundamentals

Threat modeling, log analysis, SIEM basics and security hygiene, practiced against real logging pipelines instead of canned exercises.

Your gift at work

Every gift buys something a participant actually uses.

$25

Provides cloud access for one participant

$100

Helps fund networking equipment for the lending library

Most requested

$500

Sponsors a certification attempt for one participant

$1,500

Replaces one enterprise device in the lending library

See all giving levels, monthly giving, in-kind gifts and corporate sponsorship

More people want in than we can currently fund

Applications are outrunning the equipment, hosting and mentor time we have. Every gift raises the number of people we can take this year.

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