Category: Project Summary
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Employee Volunteers From Zendesk Impact Learners In South Africa and India
Continued Corporate Social Impact with a Valued Partner Zendesk, a company providing software-as-a-service products, is a Team4Tech corporate partner, supporting our work accelerating impact for education-focused NGOs. Since their first engagement with Team4Tech in 2021, Zendesk employee volunteers have contributed to meaningful social impact through many exciting projects all over the world, including: In 2023,…
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Developing Curricula for Students in a Rural Maasai Community in Tanzania with Employee Volunteers
Employee volunteers from Barracuda Networks joined Team4Tech staff for another transformative virtual project driving positive change for learners in Tanzania. In a rural Maasai community in northwest Tanzania, 78% of households live below the poverty line of $1.25/day, and girls and women face severe gender discrimination. Orkeeswa, an education nonprofit and Team4Tech NGO partner, serves…
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Bolstering Organizational Capacity to Better Serve Indian Youth
Inner Development for Youth in Underserved Communities In Bihar, one of India’s most historically impoverished states, high poverty rates have dire implications for marginalized groups—like women and girls. With limited access to education and economic opportunities, many young girls marry and have children before the age of 18. WorldBeing (formerly CorStone) is an NGO delivering…
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Skilled Volunteers Transform Learner Career Pathways in Rural Indian Communities
Connecting Learners to Career Opportunities While 97% of students are enrolled in primary schools in India, only 27% ultimately enroll in higher education, and of that percentage, just 50% of graduates are considered employable*. Learning Links Foundation (LLF), an India-based nonprofit, addresses this issue by working with students in grades 9-12 from under-resourced government schools…
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Corporate Philanthropy Impacts Education in Kolkata, India
The power of corporate philanthropy to drive impactful change is evident as skilled volunteers from Adobe completed two pro bono projects to support Ek Tara, an education-focused nonprofit working throughout Kolkata, India. Adobe’s corporate philanthropy seamlessly aligns with Team4Tech’s impactful employee volunteering programs. Together, they enact two of Adobe’s corporate social responsibility pillars, including: The…
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Corporate Volunteers from Cadence Support Education Transformation in India
A team of ten corporate volunteers from Cadence Design Systems joined a strategic pro bono project to support Barefoot College International (BCI). At Team4Tech, our flagship strategic pro bono program engages a team of 10-15 employees in a capacity-building project to support education-focused nonprofit organizations and their staff. The highly skilled Team4Tech Program Directors deliver…
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Skilled Volunteers in Brazil Accelerate Impact through Zendesk’s Global Impact
The program team at Team4Tech facilitated a Design for Impact program with Zendesk to connect skilled volunteers in Brazil (via Zendesk Brazil) with Projeto Amigos das Criancas (PAC). PAC is an education-focused nonprofit organization that operates in low-income communities, serving over 1,000 children and their families who grapple with limited access to education, healthcare, and…
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NetApp Skilled Volunteers Transform Learning in Kenya
When skilled volunteers engage nonprofit organizations serving learners in communities with limited resources, lives are transformed! Kenya has become a hub of innovation and technology, yet students and families in rural regions of the country have largely been left behind. Limited access to technology is just one part of the problem. According to the World…
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Strengthening CorStone’s Youth with Economic Opportunities
CorStone’s Youth Empowerment Program According to the World Bank, Bihar has historically been one of India’s most impoverished states. High poverty rates have dire implications for marginalized groups such as lower castes and women. Limited access to education and economic opportunities has led young girls to marry and have children before the age of 18. …
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Establishment of Digital Safety and Makerspaces with MAIA
Educational challenges for women and girls in Guatemala Maya women and girls are the most marginalized group in Guatemala where fewer than 20% complete high school, averaging only four years of schooling. In Sololá, the city where MAIA operates, 57% are married or have become mothers by the time they are 18, which significantly hinders…
