"Overwhelmingly, we hear from our communities that housing and economic inequality are the priority," Stand Up Nashville said in a statement. "What is clear from the responses is that we don't know how many jobs will be filled by Nashville residents."
For its part, Oracle is working to diversify its workforce by working with a recruiting organization to hire more Black and Hispanic employees and more women after an internal review showed its employee pool to be overwhelmingly white and male.
Placing more Nashvillians in tech roles
The first two prongs of NTC's tech workforce growth plan are local. Programs introducing tech careers at the middle school and high school level are longer-term investments. NTC also partners with Nashville Software School to connect people to boot camps geared toward adults who want a career change.