Overview by the Numbers:

Currently Serving: 2,300 learners

<aside> <img src="/icons/sharing_blue.svg" alt="/icons/sharing_blue.svg" width="40px" /> Summary of Team4Tech Contributions and Collaborations (2024):

• Partnership began in 2020
• 2 projects with 26 pro bono consultants
• 1,300+ pro bono hours committed
• $273k+ value of pro bono consulting
• $50,000 in grant support </aside>

Background:

<aside> 📌 Worldreader is a global nonprofit championing digital reading in underserved communities to create a world where everyone can be a reader. They feature an extensive selection of approximately 35,000 digital books, stories, and teaching materials in 52 languages to use for free. Their easy-to-use mobile app is designed to work on the most basic internet-enabled phone, using minimal data and loading times.

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🤝 Partnership Objectives:

With Team4Tech’s support, Worldreader is working to enhance teacher training, streamline their M&E process for data collected outside of their applications, build partner capacity to drive impact and scale development, and enhance digital literacy skills for parents/caregivers and teachers.

Worldreader Partnership Overview

📊 Metrics:

Learner Engagement

• Improved student behaviors and attitudes around reading using digital devices
• Increased number of unique BookSmart home users who spent time reading
• Increased reader engagement as measured by number of books read and time spent reading
• Increased parent capacity and readiness to create a home reading culture

Learner Growth

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Teacher and Staff Effectiveness

• Increased capacity of teachers to support and facilitate children’s literacy development using digital
• Improved MEO capacity to implement and manage digital reading programs

Organizational Sustainability and Scale

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Grant Budget Analysis:

<aside> <img src="/icons/library_gray.svg" alt="/icons/library_gray.svg" width="40px" /> Worldreader puts their grant budget towards:

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• strengthening their training capacity by investing in projectors, and tablets
• streamlining their LMS
• improving digital literacy skills for parents/caregivers through investing in parent training videos and instructional materials

Skilled Volunteering Projects:

• October 2020: Virtual Strategic Project with NetApp (drop down for more)
• September 2021: Virtual Strategic Project with NetApp (drop down for more)

Partnership Impact:

⭐️ Team4Tech skilled volunteers have supported Worldreader with: