Our Approach
Since 2013, Team4Tech has supported more than 50 nonprofits to improve education and economic opportunities for over 110,000 under resourced learners in more than 20 countries.
The ultimate goal is to advance progress on the United Nations Sustainable Development Goal 4.4.
Team4Tech selects innovative local nonprofit partners with strong education programs and helps amplify their impact through technology grants and pro bono consulting projects over three to five years. Our ultimate goal is to increase the number of youth and adults who are empowered with relevant skills for employment, decent jobs, and entrepreneurship.
Committed to SDG 4.4
We are guided at all times by our theory of change.
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We work
to build capacity for education nonprofits through tech solutions and training
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We support
strengthened local capacity, improved quality of education, and enabled tech solutions
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We activate
an empowered nonprofit network to bring thought leadership for government and systemic uptake
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We increase
the number of youth and adults who have relevant skills - including technical and vocational skills - for employment, decent jobs, and entreprenuership.
To learn more about our theory of change, read our whitepaper.
Our Nonprofit Partners
We partner for three to five years with innovative local nonprofit partners to amplify their impact through technology grants and pro bono consulting.
Ecuador
Paraguay
Vietnam
Bulgaria
Measuring Impact: Strengthening Local Education Capacity
We measure our impact through the following four key outcomes. We work with each of our nonprofit partners to select and define an indicator that most aligns with their own goals. Sustainable change takes time and through our long-term partnerships, we ensure strengthened local education capacity.
Teacher Productivity
92% of teachers report increased productivity due to improved technology skills, allowing them more time to focus on student learning.
Learner Engagement
In just one year, the number of STEM student exhibitions grew 40% at Gashora Girls Academy of Science and Technology.
Learner Growth
72% of LEAP Science and Maths Schools students now attend university, compared to less than 5% of black South African students nationally.
Sustainability & Scale
Team4Tech partnered with CARE to integrate technology into rural schools in Cambodia. The Ministry of Education plans to scale the program across all Cambodian schools by 2025.
Building Nonprofit Capacity
Kidspire works to improve opportunities for children in government orphanages in Vietnam through after-school technology and leadership programs. Since 2014, Team4Tech has helped Kidspire build capacity through technology grants and workshops. As a result, Kidspire students are now staying in school longer, attending university and getting better jobs.
Building STEM Skills for a Better Future
LEAP Science and Maths Schools provide a high quality education for under resourced secondary students in the townships of South Africa. Since 2014, Team4Tech has supported LEAP teachers and students in advancing their STEM skills from digital literacy to coding. Students from LEAP recently entered and won 3rd place in a robotics competition.
Empowering Girls
Since 2017, Team4Tech has partnered with Gashora Girls Academy of Science and Technology, a STEM focused secondary school in Rwanda that serves a socioeconomically diverse population of girls. With technology and training from Team4Tech, Gashora has built out a ICT lab and maker space to increase student engagement and skills in STEM. Team4Tech has also provided training to Gashora’s teachers to build their technology skills as well as training teachers across Rwanda in ICT skills to increase regional capacity.
Activating Changemakers
After his project, Team4Tech Fellow Nick Heaton from Cadence Design Systems joined the board of Women in Tech Uganda (WITU), helped them launch a microloan program for women entrepreneurs, and raised money to feed families living in the slums of Kampala during the COVID 19 crisis.
Changing Lives Through Digital Design Skills
Cambodian Children’s Fund works to create opportunities through education for the community living on the site of the Steung Meanchey former garbage dump. Cambodian Children’s Fund partnered with Team4Tech in 2019 to build out a digital design skills curriculum. Students are now using their design skills to get better jobs and prepared for university. And staff are now sharing the curriculum with the Ministry of Education and other schools in Cambodia.
