Author: Rachel Dougherty
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Introducing the Digital Citizenship Toolkit: A Practical Tool for Educators and NGO Leaders
We are excited to launch the Team4Tech Digital Citizenship Toolkit, a resource designed to equip educators, nonprofit leaders, and adult learning facilitators with the knowledge and tools needed to foster responsible, ethical, and informed engagement in digital spaces. Digital citizenship is more than just online safety. This skill encompasses how individuals navigate, participate in, and…
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Skilled Volunteering Program Brings Technology Solutions to Bengaluru-Based Nonprofit
Over the past 3 months, Team4Tech facilitated an impactful skilled volunteering project connecting five employees from Guidewire Software and five employees from their technology partner, EY, with staff from Reap Benefit, an education-focused nongovernmental organization (NGO) based in India. After months of virtual collaboration, skilled volunteers traveled to Bengaluru, India, to support Reap Benefit with…
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Beyond Gap-Filling: How NGOs Are Co-Constructing Educational Futures
⭐️By Dr. Jody Britten⭐️ In Bangladesh, Light of Hope has pioneered solar-powered digital classrooms that have doubled literacy rates in participating communities. In Kenya, organizations like Kenya Connect have trained teachers in coding and implemented innovative training spaces to support scaled innovation. These stories and others demonstrate how nongovernmental organizations (NGOs) drive positive impact in…
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Transforming Access to Technology and STEM Education at LEAP 7 in South Africa
In March 2025, Team4Tech brought eight skilled volunteers from Salesforce to support LEAP Science and Maths Schools on-site in South Africa. Driving STEM Education for South African Students The South African education system faces stark challenges, with only one in every hundred children who begin Grade 1 ultimately graduating. This statistic is even more disheartening…
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Advancing Global AI Readiness in Education: Free Training and Certification for Educators
Team4Tech has been a grateful partner of the AI-for-Education.org initiative over the past 18 months. The initiative, founded by Fab, Inc., was launched with a clear vision: to ensure that the benefits of AI in education are not limited to high-income countries. As Fab, Inc. has articulated, they truly believe every child, everywhere (regardless of…
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Innovate for Impact Provides Skills-Based Volunteering for a Uganda-Based NGO
Team4Tech, as a part of a celebration for National Volunteer Week and Global Volunteer Month, engaged employee volunteers from eight companies to provide skills-based volunteering resources for our Uganda-based NGO partner, Far Away Friends, in an Innovate for Impact Event. Ideating to Support Learners in Rural Uganda Far Away Friends works in the rural Amolatar…
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Team4Tech Volunteers Backpack in Patagonia to Raise Funds for Education in Brazil!
We’re Team4Tech Fellows and Cadence employees, Alex Leigh and Charis Kalantzi, who took advancing quality education to new heights (literally!). Through Cadence’s employee engagement program, we volunteered together on a Team4Tech project in Cambodia. The project supported a Team4Tech nonprofit partner’s staff in leveraging technology to accelerate their impact. The experience was life-changing and led…
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A Review of the Kenya National AI Strategy
Kenya’s just-released National Artificial Intelligence (AI) Strategy (2025–2030) amplifies the potential of AI to transform inclusive and sustainable development throughout the country. This strategy positions Kenya as a regional and global leader in AI research, innovation, and application. Strategy Overview The document summarizes and highlights key phases and actions intended to cumulatively advance Kenya’s national…
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Skilled Volunteers from Salesforce Support Fundación Paraguaya with Product Development and AI Solutions
Building on work from our last collaboration in Fall 2024, skilled volunteers from Salesforce joined Team4tech in Asuncion, Paraguay for another impactful project with Fundación Paraguaya. In this skills-based volunteering project, Salesforce employees helped NGO staff advance programs and services for families and explore AI tools for data analysis and a virtual assistant. I was…
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Reflecting on ACCP’s Virtual Summit and Supporting the Need of Nonprofits in Using Effective AI Tools
Written by Team4Tech Chief Partnerships Officer, Elizabeth Schwan-Rosenwald Questions looking to be explored were the main focus of ACCP’s virtual summit: “The Role of AI in Corporate Social Impact.” The exploding use of AI is new, and all of us, whether corporate social impact professionals or nonprofit executives, are looking for answers and shared learnings.…
