Category: 2020
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Virtual Mentorship for the Cambodian Children’s Fund with Adobe
Cambodian Children’s Fund Supports Children and Families Since 2004, the Cambodian Children’s Fund (CCF) serves children and their families in extreme poverty who survive by scavenging at the (now closed) Steung Meanchey garbage dump. CCF provides holistic support for over 2,000 children and their families through education, healthcare, and vocational training. During the pandemic, Team4Tech…
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Reaching More Families During the COVID-19 Pandemic
Twilio Helps Fundación Paraguaya Reach More Families During the COVID-19 Pandemic By Yannie Yip and Alice Cai, Twilio Team4Tech Employee Volunteers Previous Twilio Project: In May 2019, a group of Twilions (Twilio employees) traveled to Paraguay to work with the nonprofits Fundación Paraguaya and Penguin Academy to host a series of workshops and further develop…
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University Virtual Summer Internship
During the summer of 2020, Team4Tech partnered with Middlebury College, Dartmouth College, and the University of California at Davis to provide a unique and impactful virtual summer internship for students interested in ed tech. The internship cohort included 17 students who worked with three of our nonprofit partners: the Gashora Girls Academy of Science and…
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Pivoting to Remote Learning in Rwanda
Goal: Support Gashora Girls Academy of Science and Technology (GGAST) in Rwanda as they provide students and educational leaders with the tools and information they need to adjust to remote learning in wake of COVID-19. Background: In Rwanda, 97% of girls go to primary school, but less than 34% attend upper secondary school, and then,…
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Capacity Building for Rainforest Conservation: 2020 Project
The Rainforest Trust Brings Conservation Non-Profits Together DocuSign employees designed and delivered capacity-building workshops to Rainforest Trust’s NGO partners working to protect critical ecosystems around the world. Since 1988, Rainforest Trust has protected more than 24 million acres of tropical habitat across Latin America, Africa, Asia, and the Pacific. They plan to protect an additional…
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Improving Cybersecurity in the United States
Only 25% of about 1.2 million low-income, first-generation college enrollees will attain a quality first job or go to graduate school. That’s nearly one million college students every single year who are not on a path to maximize their potential. The mission of Braven is to empower promising, underrepresented young people – first-generation college students,…
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Pivoting to a Digital Model in Tanzania
Every child deserves access to quality education yet more than half of the world’s children are not learning critical math, literacy, and life skills. If current trends continue, by 2030 more than 750 million young people will not be on track to acquire basic secondary-level skills. A global teacher shortage, estimated to reach 69 million…
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Launching a mentoring and teaching program in Rwanda, Kenya, and Malawi
Goal: Team4Tech partnered with Dartmouth, UC Davis, and Middlebury to provide opportunities for university-level students to meaningfully engage by helping to expand digital learning. Dartmouth College and the University of California, Davis, joined Middlebury College this year in this third year of partnership with Team4Tech to provide immersive service-learning programs for students interested in technology…
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Scaling a Digital Literacy Program in Ghana with NetApp
Goal: Worldreader will have the resources to replicate, enhance, and sustain its digital reading programs such as the Ghana District Scale project. Background: 82 percent of the world’s learners are not in school because of COVID-19. To address this urgent need, Worldreader accelerated the release of its new app for school-age children, BookSmart, which features…
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Advancing Media Design Skills in Cambodia
Goal: Advance media design skills with CCF in Cambodia. Background: At the Steung Meanchey garbage dump in Cambodia, hundreds of children use to scavenge through garbage or beg on the streets to survive. The garbage dump was closed in 2009 but this community continues to live in extreme poverty. Partner: Since 2004, the Cambodian Children’s…
