Gary Kosman, our Founder & CEO, on
the origins of our organization. This video is from
the 2010 Friends For Youth Conference. |
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The Basics
We
create powerful, flexible tools that maximize the
impact of education, human services, and social justice efforts.
Our tools focus on:
Organizations operating across 37
states, Africa, and South America currently use our services.
We believe
that with strong leadership, a commitment to acknowledging the
realities at hand, and the right tools, even the smallest of
organizations can make huge, positive, long-term impacts.
Where We Started
After being seed funded by
Echoing Green
in 2003, we began working with
volunteer-driven tutoring and mentoring organizations. We
offered those organizations better ways to provide ongoing training and support
to their volunteers, to
collect, review and
act on data for the current cohort of students being served, to report progress,
write grants, and much more.
Where We Are Today
As we've continued to serve youth development-focused organizations
worldwide, we've also expanded our work to serve nonprofits,
AmeriCorps programs, government
agencies, school districts, and foundations across a variety of
issue areas.
On
any given day, our customers are helping thousands of children and
adults become strong readers; facilitating the development of strong
bonds between youth and their adult mentors; improving the quality
of sports coaching in parks across America; improving the quality of
food in school cafeterias; helping young women
around the world become effective community activists; improving the
quality of service-learning in universities; helping fire stations
maintain an effective, on-demand volunteer force; improving the
quality of mentoring efforts in medical schools; bolstering economic
development efforts in Southern California; and much more.
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