The School Fund receives support, mentorship and funding from a variety of organizations including universities, globally-recognized non-profits and foundations. Below is a list of supporting partners that have played important roles in The School Fund's development.
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Brown University
Supporting Partner
USA
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About the Organization: Founded in 1764, Brown University is a leading private university located in Providence, Rhode Island, USA. It is well-known for its interdisciplinary, open curriculum. Brown's Swearer Center for Public Service, is the home of the Social Innovation Initiative, which provides students with the support and mentorship as they delve into addressing issues around the world. About the Partnership: In 2010, Matt Severson received a C.V. Starr Fellowship from Brown's Swearer Center to continue developing The School Fund. With the Fellowship, Matt travelled to Tanzania for an incredibly productive summer trip, partnering with several new NGOs, identifying over 50 qualified students, and overseeing TSF's first money transfer. As a Starr Fellow, Matt participates in monthly events with other Fellows including Peer Critiques and workshops. | |
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Chegg
Supporting Partner
USA
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About the Organization: Chegg connects students to students, educators, content and services relevant to them About the Partnership: Chegg is supporting The School Fund's mission to connect students with one another and generate conversations that can lead to life-long learning and friendships. | |
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Clinton Global Initiative University
Supporting Partner
USA
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About the Organization: President Clinton launched the Clinton Global Initiative University (CGI U) in 2007 to engage the next generation of leaders on college campuses around the world. CGI U Outstanding Commitment Awards, made possible by Walmart, are grants given to exceptional student Commitments to Action aimed at improving communities and lives around the world. About the Partnership: In 2010, The School Fund won a CGIU Outstanding Commitment Award. | |
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DoSomething
Supporting Partner
USA
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About the Organization: DoSomething helps turns young people's ideas into sustainable organizations with seed money that is awarded to a new project every week. About the Partnership: In 2010, The School Fund received a DoSomething.org grant and plugged into DoSomething's network of social entrepreneurs. | |
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Heising-Simons Foundation
Supporting Partner
USA
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About the Organization: The Heising-Simons Foundation (HSF) is a family foundation that supports causes relating to equity in education, alternative energy research, and environmentalism. About the Partnership: The Heising-Simons Foundation has supported The School Fund since its inception in 2009. In addition to providing The School Fund with the means to carry out important program analysis and accountability work, The Heising-Simons Foundation has also connected The School Fund to several of our scholarship partners. | |
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Ping & Amy Chao Family Foundation
Supporting Partner
USA & China
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About the Organization: The Ping & Amy Chao Family Foundation was founded in Silicon Valley by high technology entrepreneur Ping Chao and his wife Amy in 2005. The foundation's missions are to improve the health and wellbeing of children in disadvantaged regions worldwide, and promote a philanthropic spirit and awareness of nonprofit or service opportunities among Asian Americans as well as the younger generation in East Asia. About the Partnership: In 2011, The School Fund received a general grant from the Ping & Amy Chao Family Foundation. The grant is intended to support The School Fund's efforts to expand its reach and impact to East Asia. | |
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Skees Family Foundation
Supporting Partner
USA
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About the Organization: The Skees Family Foundation extends self-help to youth and families to end poverty worldwide. We support NPOs in the US and and NGOs around the world to advance education, microfinance, infrastructure, health, and peace. We value love in action to create equal opportunity for all. About the Partnership: The Skees Family Foundation is supporting The School Fund's communications work to better tell students' stories via video and prose. The Skees Family Foundation also provides high-level strategic direction to The School Fund's Leadership Team. | |
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Sparkseed
Supporting Partner
USA
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About the Organization: Sparkseed exists to develop the next generation of social entrepreneurs and increase their impact on society. Sparkseed provides mentoring, consulting and seed money to its ventures. About the Partnership: In 2009, Sparkseed's $1000 prize was the first grant The School Fund ever received. | |
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University of Pennsylvania
Supporting Partner
USA
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About the Organization: The University of Pennsylvania is a private research university located in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA. About the Partnership: In 2010, Roxana Moussavian received a grant from the Center for Undergraduate Research and Fellowship to travel to expand The School Fund, and monitor the effects of its expansion on the program's students. Roxana used the grant to travel to Tanzania, where she developed a strategy for the sustainable expansion of The School Fund in Tanzania and conducted interviews with the program's students to assess the effect of the program on their attitudes towards education and foreign aid. |