Category: Project Summary
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Four NPOs Engage in Strategic Growth with Deloitte
In March 2021, Team4Tech implemented strategic growth with Deloitte’s Building Bridges program to support four of Team4Tech’s nonprofit partners with pro bono consulting projects spanning strategy, technology, and human capital. Specifically, 20 Deloitte professionals: Supported Resilience Programs for Girls and Youth in India with CorStone CorStone develops and provides resilience programs to improve well-being for…
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Technology Skills for Women in Uganda: 2019 WITU Project
WITU Empowers Women to Learn Technical Skills 74% of Ugandans between the ages of 15-25 are unemployed. The majority of them are young women who have either dropped out of school due to poverty or lack digital skills for better jobs because public schools do not use technology for instruction and learning. Women in Technology…
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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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Women Empowerment in Vietnam: 2020 Project with Kidspire Vietnam
Kidspire Vietnam Enables Skill-building for Orphaned Children In Vietnam, there are over 2 million orphans who are struggling with poverty, violence and prejudice and even sex trafficking. Many spend most of their childhood years in government facilities and drop out of school. Few of these children graduate with basic computing skills, greatly limiting their employment…
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Empowering Marginalized Communities of Malawi with Centre for Youth and Development
Malawi has one of the highest poverty rates in the world; about 12 million Malawians live on less than $1.25 a day. These devastating circumstances leave many with food shortages, health concerns, and minimal access to education. Out of their population of nearly 16 million, only 65.8% will learn to read and write by the…
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Using Technology to Enhance Reading Services in Peru with Worldreader
Latin America suffers from significant inequality when it comes to many areas, including education. For example, one in two students in Latin America do not reach the basic reading proficiency level required in the PISA assessment, led by the OECD, which highlights the learning crisis in the region. Of the countries on the PISA assessment,…
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Curbing Poverty through Digital Literacy in Liberia with EduCare
Local solutions are fundamental so solving local problems. By engaging directly at the local level, EduCare puts the power back in the hands of those working on the front lines of national development in their own local communities. EduCare uses the tools of human and economic capacity building to foster the emergence of a regenerated…
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Transforming Primary Education in Rural Kenya with Flying Kites
Project Type: Virtual or On-site When: Any Dates; April or August preferred The World Bank reports that only 35% of primary school teachers in rural kenya have been given the skills they need to demonstrate mastery of the curriculum they teach. The goal of Flying Kites Teacher Training Center is to help educators ensure that…
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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…
