Category: Team4Tech Highlights
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Catalyzing Change Through Capacity Strengthening
A Team4Tech Article by Jody Britten and Elizabeth Schwan-Rosenwald In under-resourced communities, over 250 million children lack access to quality education. This barrier is compounded by the need to strengthen organizational capacity and scale for the NGOs serving these learners. Too often, NGOs across the globe operate with minimal resources and no clear path to…
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Team4Tech’s Annual Celebration to Honor Our Collective Impact
On November 8, Team4Tech hosted our annual Lighthouses of Learning impact celebration. Together with 250 partners and supporters, we were thrilled to honor our collective impact in advancing education for employment worldwide. Guests learned how Team4Tech has expanded our programming online and on the ground to scale our support for 900 education-focused NGOs operating in…
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The Promise of Technology for Advancing Early Literacy in Rwanda
Rwanda presents a challenging context for early literacy education due to its multilingual and broader cultural context. Research shows that technology can play an important role in addressing these challenges by facilitating solutions related to teacher training, literacy support outside the classroom, and delivering leveled materials to students. This blog reviews relevant technology solutions from…
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Skills-Based Volunteer Accelerator Program – 2017
Read about the VMware Foundation’s second Service Learning Accelerator collaborating with VMware people in India offices and a nonprofit called CARE India.
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Tom Collett: Volunteer Testimonial
Tom Collett retired from SAP as their Global Vice President, Global Partner Operations, Industries & Programs, recently accompanied a group of volunteers to the December 2016 LEAP 6 project, and currently is helping Team4Tech out as a Fellow. Learn more about his experience of realizing his retirement dream and watch the video of the LEAP…
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Volunteers + Tech Skills x Public Good = Big Wins
In the next two weeks Oct 18- Nov 1, Team4Tech volunteers from Facebook, Coursera, Google and Intersol will be using their tech know-how to help build out after-school STEM programs for students from Kenyatta and Barrack Primary schools in Thika, Kenya. They will train teachers to create, deploy and maintain their own after-school STEM program…
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Julie Clugage: Nominated at the 2014 CLASSY Awards
For those of you following along with Team4Tech these past few months, you’ll know it has been a busy time – we completed a 16-day project in Tanzania in November with 11 amazing volunteers from Intel, Intuit and Facebook, and then we moved right into our Vietnam project in February with 11 equally amazing volunteers…
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Orphan Impact in Vietnam and “The Chance to Survive”
Our partner Orphan Impact shared their video about life as an orphan in Vietnam and the opportunities educational technology provides for their futures. Watch this moving video.
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Technology & Training Leads to Improved English Literacy Scores in Just Four Months
Great news from our friends Karibu Centre in Kenya this week. Their evaluation data shows that the 1st and 2nd graders at the Barracks Primary School where we set up a computer lab back in May are using the adaptive learning software even more than the recommended 1 hour per week, and their English literacy…
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Julie Clugage: At the One-Year Mark!
Wow, it is hard to believe that a year has flown by since Lila Ibrahim and I co-founded Team4Tech in September 2012. It has been such a whirlwind – filled with all the challenges of establishing a new start-up organization, but also the joys of finding like-minded supporters across the tech sector. We have been…
