edge-ucate.org :: taking education to the edge of the globe

Bringing the Experience Home, Sponsoring an Edge-ucate School:

We seek to partner our schools abroad with schools and organizations within the U.S., enhancing cross-cultural interaction while making projects sustainable in the long run.

School Partnerships

Business Partnership

Social Groups

School Partnerships:

Elementary, Jr. High, and Sr. High Schools gain just as much from our projects as their international counterparts. By sponsoring one Edge-ucate school for one year, a school commits to designing and implementing one annual fundraiser and one annual supply drive. Most schools can generate our annual budget of around $4,000 in a single fundraiser, while the supply drives provide vital didactic materials from recycled supplies that would otherwise go unused.

What Your School Gets
By designing and implementing their own unique fundraisers, students learn valuable skills in the areas of project coordination and design, leadership, and community outreach. Your students will also be able to create lasting cross-cultural relationships by actively communicating with their partners oversees via mail and email. Imagine the elementary school student who can say that, at age 8, they helped raise money to build and operate a new school in Nepal, or the High School student who writes on her college application, "Worked closely with a non-profit corporation in fundraising and coordinating international, education relief to project schools in Nicaragua."

In addition to the benefits of intercultural dialogue and the development of valuable skills, sponsor schools receive a custom DVD, chronicling the accomplishment that their hard work helped to create, containing interesting information and footage from the sponsored school and around their adopted country, and presentations with project representatives congratulating them on their hard work and dedication. Your school also gets a special place of recognition on our website.
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Business Partnerships:

In an ever expanding business world, the ability to communicate effectively across different cultural lines is becoming increasingly important. By sponsoring an Edge-ucate project school, your business or corporation gains valuable insight into the daily lives of another culture. In addition to this valuable exchange, fundraising and partnership activities help to foster team building within your company.

In the mosaic that is American culture, the public relations value of sponsoring such a project is practically limitless. How many executives can point to a picture on the wall of a 6-year-old child in Honduras, demonstrating their willingness to bridge expansive gaps? How many corporations can point to a matching-employee giving program as demonstrable proof of their enduring commitment to the global educational community? Your company also gets a custom DVD, chronicling the accomplishment that their hard work helped to create and containing interesting information and footage from the sponsored school and around their adopted country; a presentation from project representatives congratulating them on their hard work and dedication; as well as, a special place of recognition among our corporate sponsors on our website.

If you think that your company might be interested in sponsoring an Edge-ucate project school please contact us.
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Social Groups:

Long the backbone of American civic society, social groups have come to take on responsibilities that were previously unheard of. From fundraising for local schools to funding projects and missions around the globe, various clubs, churches, and groups throughout the US are making substantial differences within the community at home and abroad.

Thanks largely to our schools modest budgets and low corporate overhead, the chance for even the smallest of community groups to sponsor Edge-ucate schools and make a real difference in the world are abundant. By sponsoring one Edge-ucate school for one year, your group commits to designing and implementing one annual fundraiser and one annual supply drive. Most groups can generate our annual budget of around $4,000 in a single fundraiser, while the supply drives provide vital didactic materials from recycled supplies that would otherwise go unused in the community.

What Your Group Gets:

Sponsoring an Edge-ucate project school gives your group international reach from the comfort of home. With your group's unique Edge-ucate project tracking number, you have instant access via our website to pictures, stories, and video clips from your sponsored project school. Similar material is also provided on a custom DVD that features the accomplishment that your hard work helped to create, as well as containing interesting information and footage from the sponsored school and around their adopted country. In addition, your group receives a presentation from project representatives congratulating them on their hard work and dedication, and a special place of recognition on our website.
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