TEAM4TECH FOUNDATION

Team4Tech is a nonprofit impact accelerator, bridging the digital equity gap in education to create inclusion and opportunities for under-resourced learners around the world (SDG 4.4). We envision a world where all learners have access to quality education as a path to better economic outcomes. Our mission is to improve the quality of education for under-resourced learners by building nonprofit capacity through technology solutions and training.

Since 2013, Team4Tech has supported more than 50 strategic nonprofit partner organizations with $19M in technology grants and pro bono consulting services to ignite the power of technology to create inclusive opportunities for learners. Together we have impacted more than 130,000 lives in more than 20 countries.

Leveraging our experience as the trusted partner to education-focused nonprofits worldwide and the impact of hundreds of our pro bono consulting projects in accelerating quality education, we are on a five-year journey to broaden and deepen our support for nonprofit organizations working with learners in the most isolated and under-resourced communities. We are scaling to support a growing network of community-based nonprofits to share learnings and connections, with the goal of building capacity and accelerating impact.

To achieve our vision, we are expanding and transforming our nonprofit engagement through an expanded portfolio of strategic nonprofit partners, regional hubs, and an online community of practice. This will allow us to scale our programming to 800+ education nonprofit organizations which, in turn, will build skills for tens of millions of under-resourced learners.

To bridge the digital equity gap in education, we will focus on three priorities:

Priority 1 - Strategic Nonprofit Partners: Scale our long-term technology implementation support and grants for Team4Tech strategic nonprofit partners provided by Team4Tech staff and pro bono volunteers, growing to 50 strategic partners in our portfolio at any point in time.

Priority 2 - Community of Practice: Build a digital community where education nonprofits operating in low-resource contexts can learn from free ed tech workshops, tools, and knowledge-sharing curated to their specific needs.

Priority 3 - Regional Hubs: Expand our organization and global partnerships by hiring local staff to build partnerships in Sub-Saharan Africa, South Asia, and the Americas, to effectively support strategic nonprofit partners as well as regional cohorts of education-focused nonprofits within our community of practice.

Priority 1: Strategic Nonprofit Partners
Team4Tech’s model leverages long-term relationships and grounds our work in a nonprofit organization’s unique context. Outcomes include sustained learner growth, improved learner engagement, enhanced teacher effectiveness, and organizational sustainability and scale. Each nonprofit partner is asked to select one or more relevant metrics from each of these four categories to track over the duration of our collaboration. We work closely with our partners to measure the impact of our collaboration on learners (pre-primary to secondary, vocational, and entrepreneurs), teachers, school administrators, nonprofit staff, and community members.

By 2024, Team4Tech will grow our strategic partner portfolio to build capacity for 50 strategic nonprofit partners annually with customized programming and technology grants of up to $15,000 USD per partner annually that are matched by the nonprofits’ fundraising. Each of these nonprofit partners reaches at least 700 unique learners per year, meaning that we will benefit at least 35,000 learners per year through these in-depth strategic partnerships.

Priority 2: Community of Practice
To broaden and deepen our impact, we are building a new layer of programming that adds multi-dimensional, ongoing support to Team4Tech’s quality resources and contextually skilled staff. Through an online community of practice, we will be able to share ed tech tools and resources, from both our strategic projects and outside partners, with hundreds of nonprofits around the world, and leverage the strengths of all our partners in the service of nonprofit capacity-building.

One year after launch, our community of practice has grown to include 400+ nonprofit organizations from 75+ countries, benefitting 32+ million learners. Over the next five years, this community of practice will build capacity for at least 800 nonprofit organizations that, in turn, will share their learnings with tens of millions of learners, giving them a chance to build skills for quality employment.

Priority 3: Regional Hubs
Aligned with our goal of providing relevant, ongoing support to our nonprofit partners, we are building regional hubs to foster real-time knowledge sharing in the regions where we operate. Through regional hub coordinators with deep expertise in ed tech implementation, we will foster engagement and connection with nonprofit organizations looking to implement ed tech solutions in each region. We will also localize and contextualize ed tech resources to ensure they are aligned with the local culture and curriculum of a given region.

Team4Tech established our first regional hub in Sub-Saharan Africa in 2021, a South Asia regional hub in 2022, and hubs in Latin America & the Caribbean and the USA & Canada in 2023.

Team4Tech identifies and scopes high impact projects in underserved communities, and matches them with relevant technology volunteers and solutions to amplify their impact. Specific expertise provided by Team4Tech includes:

1) Project matchmaking – Team4Tech solicits calls for applications from nonprofits and go through a rigorous selection process to identify high impact nonprofits that will benefit from our corporate partners' employees' skill sets.

2) Project scoping and development – Team4Tech Program Directors uses human centered design approach to uncover the needs and define appropriate, achievable and high impact scopes of work with our nonprofit partners.

3) Volunteer training – Team4Tech leads a 3-months leadership development volunteer training course that allows volunteers to develop relevant mindset and skill set to make the biggest impact for the nonprofit organization and also allows them to develop skills that can be applied back to their daily work.

4) Solutions matchmaking – Team4Tech has an extensive knowledge base of education hardware and software solutions, teacher training materials, sample curricula, etc. This provides valuable advice to nonprofit partners when selecting relevant education technology solutions for their beneficiaries.

5) Technical support - With each Team4Tech project, Team4Tech provides pro bono support from corporate volunteers. Team4Tech's skilled volunteers are selected through a rigorous application process. The volunteers are from different business units and global locations, and provides professional expertise in the areas ranging from hardware, software, customer research, marketing, training, to other skills.

6) Financial support - Each nonprofit organizations can receive up to USD 15,000 annually to purchase hardware, software, and other technology needs for the project. Team4Tech asks nonprofit partners to match the grant with in-kind or monetary donations to demonstrate the equal partnership for the project.

7) Monitoring and evaluation - Team4Tech collaborates with our nonprofit partners to identify metrics in the four categories - learner engagement, learner growth, teacher productivity, and sustainability and scale. Through M&E, Team4Tech aims to build stronger 3 - 5 year partnerships with our nonprofit partners and improve their learners' lifelong skills.

Since 2013, Team4Tech has supported more than 50 strategic nonprofit partner organizations with $19M in technology grants and pro bono consulting services to ignite the power of technology to create inclusive opportunities for learners. Together we have impacted more than 130,000 lives in more than 20 countries.

Now, with our online community of practice, we are reaching 400+ nonprofit organizations across 75+ countries that report a direct impact on 32+ million learners.