Worldfund

Worldfund
Founded 2002
Founder Luanne Zurlo
Focus Education
Headquarters New York, New York
Area served
Latin America
Method Donations, Grants and Partnerships
Slogan Reducing Poverty in Latin America Through Education
Mission To develop educational leaders in Latin America through training and coaching in pedagogy, leadership, and mindsets, so that they can improve grades, graduation rates and future employment opportunities for youth and children in underserved communities

Worldfund is a non-profit organization founded in 2002 that delivers training and ongoing support to teachers and principals from underserved schools in Latin America. It operates 3 different programs: LISTO, a principal leadership program, IAPE, an English-teacher training program and STEM Brasil, a science and math teacher training program. Nearly 8,000 principals and teachers have participated in Worldfund programming. [1]

IAPE

The Inter-American Partnership for Education (IAPE) trains, empowers, and supports a network of English language educators in Mexico's most underserved public schools, in association with Dartmouth College's Rassias Center. IAPE is in its tenth year of operation.

Impact by 2017

STEM Brasil

This program addresses the urgent increasing need for professionals in the fields of science, technology, engineering, and math. The STEM Brasil methodology complements the school curriculum. The program engages students with their own teachers during the school day, unlike extracurricular programs.

Impact by 2017

Evaluation Results

STEM Mexico

Worldfund is currently developing the infrastructure to implement its STEM program within Mexico's public schools. Anticipated launch date is 2018.

Areas of Operation

Mexico

Brazil

References

  1. ↑ http://www.worldfund.org
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