Mission
Education For All Foundation aims to impart meaningful and transformative lessons through a multicultural community of altruistic volunteers.
Ruling year
2020
Executive Director
Alex Hu
Main address
73 Trailwood
Irvine, CA 92620 USA
EIN
38-4128495
NTEE code
Specialized Education Institutions/Schools for Visually or Hearing Impaired, Learning Disabled (B28)
Educational Services and Schools - Other (B90)
Elementary, Secondary Ed (B20)
Programs and results
What we aim to solve
Despite the wisdom of our past leaders, education inequality is an underrepresented world issue in society. The lack of educational resources worldwide perpetuates the cycle of poverty by providing inadequate skills to millions of students. After becoming adults, these students lack the required skills to lift themselves out of poverty, thereby ending up impoverished. Mirroring their parents, they are unable to provide their own children with quality education and the cycle persists.
Our programs
What are the organization's current programs, how do they measure success, and who do the programs serve?
English Teaching Operation
English is the language of global business, media, science, and the internet. Learning English is a valuable opportunity for Asian students in unfortunate circumstances to engage with the rest of the world and create opportunities for themselves. The ability to converse with another culture is a significant asset to both our students’ personal lives as well as their careers. EFA teaches online English classes at our partner schools with our specially designed curriculum and trained teachers. Classes are carried out via online classrooms and replace the local English lesson class block. Our curriculum teaches the students for the entirety of elementary school such that students gain highly competent English literacy skills by the time they graduate.
EDGE Mentorship Program
Underprivileged kids are more disadvantaged than simply lacking money. Most children do not have a parental figure to look up to and develop unhealthy habits and beliefs, leaving their future relationships and lifestyles destined to fail. The EDGE (Emotional Development Guarantees Excellence) Mentorship program will help underprivileged kids develop healthily by learning soft skills such as emotional management, ambition and leadership, which will provide an infinite amount of returns. Volunteers will be trained by certified psychiatric professionals to act as brotherly and sisterly figures towards elementary school students. Mentors and mentees will meet 1-on-1 once a week to emotionally connect, such that mentees don't have to navigate life alone. Mentors will also teach mentees important soft skills and life lessons to help mentees mature. The program will also provide academic scholarships of $125 USD to students.
Partner School Financial Support
Despite federal efforts, local governments in many parts of rural China frequently misuse funds, which results in a lack of funding for education. EFA ensures that our partner schools have the necessary resources in order to not only facilitate EFA’s English classes, but also to run other standard school classes. Thus, EFA donates stationery, technology, books, and much more so that our schools are supported. Donations are transferred through international wire transfers directly to partner schools, who then use the donation to exclusively purchase required education supplies.
Where we work
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Our results
How does this organization measure their results? It's a hard question but an important one.
Number of lessons taught
This metric is no longer tracked.Totals By Year
Population(s) Served
Children and youth, Economically disadvantaged people
Related Program
English Teaching Operation
Type of Metric
Output - describing our activities and reach
Direction of Success
Increasing
Context Notes
This metric shows the number of English lessons taught to impoverished schools.
Number of children who have access to education
This metric is no longer tracked.Totals By Year
Population(s) Served
Children and youth, Economically disadvantaged people
Related Program
English Teaching Operation
Type of Metric
Output - describing our activities and reach
Direction of Success
Increasing
Context Notes
This metric shows the number of underprivileged students EFA taught English lessons to.
Total dollars received in contributions
This metric is no longer tracked.Totals By Year
Population(s) Served
Economically disadvantaged people, Children and youth, At-risk youth
Type of Metric
Input - describing resources we use
Direction of Success
Increasing
Context Notes
This metric shows the amount that EFA raised from its donors.
Number of youth mentored
This metric is no longer tracked.Totals By Year
Population(s) Served
Children and youth, At-risk youth, Economically disadvantaged people
Related Program
EDGE Mentorship Program
Type of Metric
Output - describing our activities and reach
Direction of Success
Increasing
Context Notes
This metric shows the number of left-behind children engaging in the EDGE Mentorship Program and EDGE Scholarship Fund
Number of volunteers
This metric is no longer tracked.Totals By Year
Population(s) Served
Adolescents
Type of Metric
Input - describing resources we use
Direction of Success
Increasing
Context Notes
This metric shows the number of volunteers permanently working at EFA.
Total dollar amount of grants awarded
This metric is no longer tracked.Totals By Year
Population(s) Served
Children and youth, Economically disadvantaged people
Related Program
EDGE Mentorship Program
Type of Metric
Output - describing our activities and reach
Direction of Success
Increasing
Context Notes
The total USD amount of student scholarships awarded by EFA.
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Goals & Strategy
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Charting impact
Four powerful questions that require reflection about what really matters - results.
What is the organization aiming to accomplish?
Education For All Foundation (EFA) consists of a group of students who strongly believe in the merits of educational equity. The EFA team offers life-changing opportunities by helping others learn invaluable lessons. By engaging in EFA's English lessons and mentorship program, we aim to equip students with valuable mental assets of linguistic and soft skills that will guide them for the rest of their lives.
What are the organization's key strategies for making this happen?
Our operations are designed to lift underprivileged students out of poverty by equipping them with English fluency and life skills. We are a group of youth who are deeply intrinsically motivated to create change in those students' lives. We aim to create long-term value in others' lives by incorporating our youthful optimism into our work.
What are the organization's capabilities for doing this?
EFA is run by its executive team and a diligent group of 100+ volunteers. Our teaching operation is constantly improved and adapted to our partnering schools. Our mentorship program is created by empathetic people who can teach life skills and be older brother/sister figures to children. Our passion for the children we serve enables us to find solutions to change their lives.
What have they accomplished so far and what's next?
EFA has expanded to teaching at 7 schools in the Chinese provinces of Ningxia, Jiangxi, Inner Mongolia, and Chongqing. We are currently teaching weekly online English lessons over 500 underprivileged students who can use English fluency as an invaluable asset in their future.
EFA has started mentoring 8 left-behind children in our new mentorship program, with hopes of helping them learn life skills and develop into healthy adults.
EFA has raised over $12,500 USD and donated $5,000 USD to our partner schools and EDGE Scholarship Fund, while the rest of the funds diverted to operating expenses, with a large portion being saved for future projects.
How we listen
Seeking feedback from people served makes programs more responsive and effective. Here’s how this organization is listening.
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Who are the people you serve with your mission?
We serve the rural communities in Asian countries, namely China, India, Malaysia, and Kazakhstan. Within these rural communities live left-behind children who lost one or both of their parents and grow up financially, emotionally, and educationally impoverished. Our programs aim to empower these children to change their circumstances for themselves and their families by increasing job prospects and encouraging their passions to live life to the fullest.
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How is your organization collecting feedback from the people you serve?
Paper surveys,
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How is your organization using feedback from the people you serve?
To identify and remedy poor client service experiences, To identify bright spots and enhance positive service experiences, To make fundamental changes to our programs and/or operations, To inform the development of new programs/projects, To understand people's needs and how we can help them achieve their goals,
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With whom is the organization sharing feedback?
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Which of the following feedback practices does your organization routinely carry out?
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What challenges does the organization face when collecting feedback?
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Operations
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Education For All Foundation
Board of directorsas of 6/8/2021
Mr. Alex Hu
Education For All Foundation
Term: 2018 -
Mr. Dyllan Liu
Education For All Foundation
Term: 2018 -
Hannah Jian
Education For All Foundation
Board leadership practices
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Ethics and transparency
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Board composition
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Board performance
Has the board conducted a formal, written self-assessment of its performance within the past three years? Not applicable
Organizational demographics
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Equity strategies
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- We ask team members to identify racial disparities in their programs and / or portfolios.
- We employ non-traditional ways of gathering feedback on programs and trainings, which may include interviews, roundtables, and external reviews with/by community stakeholders.
- We help senior leadership understand how to be inclusive leaders with learning approaches that emphasize reflection, iteration, and adaptability.
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