Overview by the Numbers:

Currently Serving: 1000+ learners

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• Partnership began in 2023
• 1 project with 10 pro bono consultants
• 1500+ pro bono hours committed
• $318,000+ value of pro bono consulting
• $15,000 in grant support </aside>

Background

📌 Supporting families in São Paulo, Brazil since 1968, Arrastão Project offers daily programming to over 1000 learners. Their activities are organized into pedagogical, community and Institutional development areas. The pedagogical area has four programs:

• Day care / CEI: Programa de Educação Infantil
  • For children who are from 1y.o. to 3y.11m.o., focusing on autonomy and developing cognitive, physical, emotional, social and cultural aspects.
• CCA: Children and Teens Program
  • For children and teenagers who are from 6y.o. to 13y.11m.o., this extracurricular program explores interdisciplinarity during social learning workshops as: academic skills, environmental awareness, sports, tech, music and percussion, arts, conversation circles and assemblies.
• CJ: Youth Training Program
  • For teenagers who are from 15y.o. to 17y.11m.o., this program develops youth protagonism and entrepreneurial competencies. The main objective is to help them to achieve autonomy and become social transformation agents
• Arrastart: Entrepreneurship and Innovation
  • For those who complete the Youth Training Program or young adults from the community, this stage aims to develop the students individual or group entrepreneurship, helping to achieve social inclusion and increasing the participants’ economical and professional potential.

🤝 Partnership Objectives

Arrastão Project partners with Team4Tech to integrate more technology topics into the curriculum of all its educational programs, use more technological tools for teaching and learning, and thereby increase the efficiency of their team and the employability rates for students.

Partnership Overview

📊 Metrics:

Learner Engagement

• Quality of planning and organization of activities and methodologies planned for the IT program
• Number of students present in the IT program workshops
• Degree of development of technical skills acquired by the public served by the IT program
• Quality of planning and organization of activities and methodologies planned for the Tech Program
• Number of students present in the Tech Program workshops
• Degree of development of technical skills acquired by the public served by the Tech Program
• Degree of validation of the quality and quantity of training activities of the Arrastão area coordination teams in tech tools
• Percentage level of practical application of training of technical teams in the use of IT and tech
• Degree of participation of managers registered in the IT and Tech workshops

Learner Growth

• n/a

Teacher and Staff Effectiveness

• n/a

Organizational Sustainability and Scale

• Degree of validation of the quality of training products for project notices and service sales pitches
• Number of projects and pitches presented
• Numbers and projects approved and partnerships signed

Grant Budget Analysis:

<aside> <img src="/icons/library_gray.svg" alt="/icons/library_gray.svg" width="40px" /> Arrastão Project has put their grant funding towards:

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• Improving tech capacity and enhancing their tech program
  • Purchases include desktops, monitors, laptops, web cams, robotics and micro bit materials, software, network cabling and installation, and a new laser cutting machine

Skilled Volunteering Projects:

• Fall 2024: Hybrid Strategic Project with Cadence Design Systems (drop down for more)

Partnership Impact:

⭐️ With Team4Tech’s support, Arrastão Project has built out their makerspace