<aside> <img src="/icons/sharing_blue.svg" alt="/icons/sharing_blue.svg" width="40px" /> Summary of Team4Tech Contributions and Collaborations (2022):

5 projects with 55 pro bono consultants
1,293+ pro bono hours committed
$238,000+ in-kind support
297 direct beneficiaries </aside>

Background:

<aside> 📌 The Poverty Stoplight program improves the lives of thousands of families through a process that allows them to be protagonists of their own stories of elimination of poverty. In addition to empowering, the data collected through the Poverty Stoplight have also proven to be useful for communities, organizations, companies, projects, and governments.

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🤝 Partnership Objectives:

Fundación Paraguaya seeks Team4Tech support in strengthening their technology programs in order to broaden their reach and scale. A stronger tech infrastructure will help Fundación Paraguaya in their mission to eliminate multidimensional poverty worldwide by enabling their programs to reach additional international organizations and ultimately more families. Better technology will enable exponential growth.

Fundación Paraguaya Partnership Overview

Grant Budget Analysis:

The grant allowed Fundación Paraguaya to invest in their tech capacity, software systems, and infrastructure.

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Pro Bono Capacity-Building Projects:

May 2019: On-site Strategic Project with Twilio (drop down for more)
July 2020: Skills for Impact Project with Twilio (drop down for more)
November 2020: Skills for Impact Project with Cadence (drop down for more)
February 2021: Skills for Impact Project with Salesforce/Tableau (drop down for more)
June 2021: Design Workshop with Visa (drop down for more)
March 2022: Design for Impact Project with Nintendo (drop down for more)

Team4Tech Impact:

The partnership impact along the years (starting in 2019) has been outstanding for Fundación Paraguaya. With Team4Tech’s support, they have improved their processes within their teams, innovated the Stoplight's platform for a global use, and exponentially grow the Poverty Stoplight tool both methodologically and technologically to be recognized worldwide.

In Spring 2019, Twilio Team4Tech Fellows (employee volunteers) went to Paraguay to improve the quality of the education and expand course offerings provided by the Penguin bootcamps. One year later, the FP and Penguin staff have built upon this foundation to further scale and create more opportunities. They have:
- Shifted their mindset using the Agile framework and analyzed internal team processes, addressed issues, and tackled challenges with more efficiency.
- Expanded their bootcamp offerings to more advanced workshops reaching over 420 additional participants.
- Leveraged the knowledge gained about Twilio's technology to include it into their learning platform.
- Finalized development of Poverty Spotlight's WhatsApp functionality and shared it with 20 organizations worldwide. This development gives FP more interaction with their families and the chance to scale even further.
Twilio volunteers also trained bootcamp participants to pitch their innovative solutions in front of 50-100 international conference attendees at the annual Cerrito Forum 2019. The winning group continued to move their innovation even further: Caring Children developed an interactive website game designed for children and youth to discover different types of abuse. Kamila Da Ponte, founding member of Caring Children, shares:

“If it wasn’t for the Penguin bootcamp and the training workshops we had with the Twilio T4T volunteers, I don’t know if I was going to be motivated to carry out my projects and to discover my true passion, which is technology. The impact was amazing! … The opportunity we had to work with Twilio and the pitch workshop was and still is an essential tool for our presentations and we still use it every time we want to present Caring Children for big audiences such as in the tech competitions. If it weren’t for these organizations, we might not be doing what we are so proud of.”