Overview by the Numbers:

Currently Serving: 200+ beneficaries

Served to Date: 2,000+ beneficaries

*As of 2022

<aside> <img src="/icons/sharing_blue.svg" alt="/icons/sharing_blue.svg" width="40px" /> Summary of Team4Tech Contributions and Collaborations (2023):

• 3 projects with 27 pro bono consultants
• 1,590+ pro bono hours committed
• $331,000+ in-kind support
• $30,000 in grant support
• 1,376 direct beneficiaries </aside>

Background:

<aside> 📌 PSYDEH uses ground-up, experiential education to empower Indigenous women and their communities to solve their own problems.

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🤝Partnership Objectives:

PSYDEH's rural connectivity issues are not unique. Through a partnership with Team4Tech and various technology companies, PSYDEH aims to develop a tailored ICT integration model. This model is designed to enhance coordination, connectivity, solidarity, and most importantly, learning. It also focuses on empowering women artisan leaders, enabling them to drive positive transformations when addressing local challenges effectively. Only when these collaborative efforts effectively establish a sustainable solution within their current region, will PSYDEH consider the possibility of replicating this successful model in another rural and marginalized area by the year 2025.

Grant Budget Analysis:

<aside> <img src="/icons/library_gray.svg" alt="/icons/library_gray.svg" width="40px" /> PSYDEH utilized their grant to grow tech and internet capacity, infrastructure for their hubs, and staff ICT training. PSYDEH aims to improve access to internet and signal, so they have used the grant on purchasing a Satellite Wifi Service, including installation and maintenance, and using the grant for the annual fees. Now, there is reliable internet in 6 community work hubs. PSYDEH has strengthened their ICT access by investing in their ICT Work hubs and purchasing smartphones, laptops, and computers.

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Pro Bono Capacity-Building Projects:

• September 2021: Design for Impact with Zoom (drop down for more)
• October 2021: Skills for Impact with Zoom (drop down for more)
• October 2022: On-site Strategic Project with Viasat (drop down for more)

Team4Tech Impact:

Partnership Goals

PSYDEH'S progress-to-date with Team4Tech as related to their long-term partnership goals went well beyond what PSYDEH dreamed. The project with Viasat focused on providing digital literacy and IT systems training for their team, which had major success. PSYDEH’s field team now has major upgrades in both tech infrastructure and technological tools that support their team to produce high-caliber work and meet overall program objectives. This project aligned with long-term goals of PSYDEH, including:

• Memorializing a roadmap for similarly situated NGOs in Mexico and the Global South because the digital literacy team created a replicable model of digital literacy training that can be applied to other nonprofits working in Latin America.
  • PSYDEH staff will teach technology skills to 100+ women partners per year which will enable businesses/cooperatives to scale up by connecting with additional sellers/ markets