Pathlight International Inc
Educate a Child. EndPoverty. Change a Country
Programs and results
What we aim to solve
Major charities overlook the impoverished children of Belize. Together, we offer them hope to break free from poverty, providing access to quality education, exceptional mentoring, and transforming them into godly leaders equipped to enter every sector of society in Belize. Free education in Belize stops after age 12. PathLight, together with its donors, provides children in Belize with education plus a faith-centered after-school program that empowers them to break free from poverty and reach their God-given potential. PathLight’s vision is to transform the country of Belize by educating and developing future generations of leaders. By 2024, PathLight (PL) will become the leading NGO partner in helping the Government achieve its ambition to have 100% teachers trained and >[60]% net student graduation at the secondary school level. PL will achieve its goal by providing the Government with turnkey solutions to Teacher Training and After School Student programs.
Our programs
What are the organization's current programs, how do they measure success, and who do the programs serve?
Education+
Education+ Ends Poverty
By joining the E+ community, you help rescue children from poverty by providing access to quality education, exceptional mentoring, and life-changing transformational experiences.
Education is vital to ending global poverty. Yet, education alone for impoverished children is insufficient. Your monthly giving provides education plus mentoring and transformational experiences that produce capable godly leaders.
Access provides tuition, supplies, tutoring, and transportation to all students.
Mentoring enables students to experience discipleship and Christian character formation.
Transformation occurs as students receive leadership development, life & social skills coaching, and job-readiness training.
Beacon
Impacting student outcomes country-wide
By subscribing to Beacon, you join a community of monthly donors on a mission to provide an entire nation with access to quality education.
Belize is overlooked by many of the world’s major charities. We don’t think that’s right. That is why we created a community of monthly donors called Beacon, whose support trains teachers, transforms classrooms, and seeks to assure every child in Belize receives a quality education.
Sponsorship+
Provide at-risk students with full-spectrum support that includes mentoring, tutoring, full financial support, academic and personal counseling, spiritual discipleship, and regular opportunities to experience giving back through community involvement in community service projects in local villages.
Teacher Training
PathLight works to develop successful educators, knowing that well-equipped teachers and administrators are crucial to student success.
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.
Evaluation documents
Download evaluation reportsNumber of children who have access to education
This metric is no longer tracked.Totals By Year
Population(s) Served
Children and youth, Work status and occupations
Related Program
Education+
Type of Metric
Outcome - describing the effects on people or issues
Direction of Success
Increasing
Context Notes
We have an indirect impact of 27,000 students if the classrooms we support are factored into the outcomes.
Number of schools repaired or expanded
This metric is no longer tracked.Totals By Year
Population(s) Served
Children and youth, Adults
Related Program
Beacon
Type of Metric
Outcome - describing the effects on people or issues
Direction of Success
Increasing
Context Notes
This metric only includes the high schools where our scholarship students attend. We impact exponentially more primary schools.
Number of students with good social and leadership skills and self-discipline
This metric is no longer tracked.Totals By Year
Population(s) Served
Adolescents
Related Program
Sponsorship+
Type of Metric
Outcome - describing the effects on people or issues
Direction of Success
Increasing
Number of children exceeding 80% school attendance
This metric is no longer tracked.Totals By Year
Population(s) Served
Children and youth
Related Program
Education+
Type of Metric
Outcome - describing the effects on people or issues
Direction of Success
Increasing
Number of students who perform at average or above on standardized testing
This metric is no longer tracked.Totals By Year
Population(s) Served
Children and youth
Related Program
Sponsorship+
Type of Metric
Output - describing our activities and reach
Direction of Success
Increasing
Context Notes
90% of our students are on their school's honor roll.
Number of students who demonstrate improved overall literacy
This metric is no longer tracked.Totals By Year
Population(s) Served
Children and youth
Related Program
Sponsorship+
Type of Metric
Outcome - describing the effects on people or issues
Direction of Success
Increasing
Number of children performing above average academically
This metric is no longer tracked.Totals By Year
Population(s) Served
Adolescents
Related Program
Sponsorship+
Type of Metric
Outcome - describing the effects on people or issues
Direction of Success
Increasing
Number of participants who are promoted to the next grade on time
This metric is no longer tracked.Totals By Year
Population(s) Served
Adolescents
Related Program
Sponsorship+
Type of Metric
Output - describing our activities and reach
Direction of Success
Increasing
Number of high school seniors who graduate from high school on time
This metric is no longer tracked.Totals By Year
Population(s) Served
Adolescents
Related Program
Sponsorship+
Type of Metric
Output - describing our activities and reach
Direction of Success
Increasing
Number of children achieving language and literacy proficiency
This metric is no longer tracked.Totals By Year
Population(s) Served
Adolescents
Related Program
Sponsorship+
Type of Metric
Output - describing our activities and reach
Direction of Success
Increasing
Number of students served who earn passing grades in core subjects
This metric is no longer tracked.Totals By Year
Population(s) Served
Adolescents
Related Program
Sponsorship+
Type of Metric
Output - describing our activities and reach
Direction of Success
Increasing
Number of teachers trained
This metric is no longer tracked.Totals By Year
Population(s) Served
Older adults, Young adults
Related Program
Beacon
Type of Metric
Outcome - describing the effects on people or issues
Direction of Success
Increasing
Context Notes
2,174 attendees to our workshops
Number of administrators and staff who plan and experience professional development activities together
This metric is no longer tracked.Totals By Year
Population(s) Served
Older adults, Young adults
Related Program
Beacon
Type of Metric
Output - describing our activities and reach
Direction of Success
Increasing
Context Notes
Teacher Training and summer workshops
Number of students who receive scholarship funds and/or tuition assistance
This metric is no longer tracked.Totals By Year
Population(s) Served
Children and youth
Related Program
Sponsorship+
Type of Metric
Output - describing our activities and reach
Direction of Success
Increasing
Total dollar amount of scholarship awarded
This metric is no longer tracked.Totals By Year
Population(s) Served
Children and youth
Related Program
Sponsorship+
Type of Metric
Output - describing our activities and reach
Direction of Success
Increasing
Number of academic scholarships awarded
This metric is no longer tracked.Totals By Year
Population(s) Served
Adolescents
Related Program
Sponsorship+
Type of Metric
Output - describing our activities and reach
Direction of Success
Increasing
Number of program participants who obtain a job within 3 months of program completion
This metric is no longer tracked.Totals By Year
Population(s) Served
Adolescents
Related Program
Sponsorship+
Type of Metric
Output - describing our activities and reach
Direction of Success
Increasing
Context Notes
95% of graduates who seek employment find employment.
Number of teachers who demonstrate effective teaching practices
This metric is no longer tracked.Totals By Year
Population(s) Served
Older adults, Young adults
Related Program
Beacon
Type of Metric
Outcome - describing the effects on people or issues
Direction of Success
Increasing
Number of students receiving personal instruction and feedback about their performance
This metric is no longer tracked.Totals By Year
Population(s) Served
Adolescents
Related Program
Sponsorship+
Type of Metric
Outcome - describing the effects on people or issues
Direction of Success
Holding steady
Our Sustainable Development Goals
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Goals & Strategy
Learn about the organization's key goals, strategies, capabilities, and progress.
Charting impact
Four powerful questions that require reflection about what really matters - results.
What is the organization aiming to accomplish?
Create a community of donors on a mission to provide an entire nation with access to quality education. The goal is to impact student outcomes nationwide.
To rescue children from poverty by providing access to quality education, exceptional mentoring, and life-changing transformational experiences.
As Government’s leading NGO partner, PL will identify 10% of teens, drawn from across the country, who have the academic skills to succeed but are not in school due to financial need. Targeting 10% of these teens will achieve a “tipping point” that influences the Government and society to prioritize education.
PL will build on its successes in the Belize and Cayo Districts by expanding its sponsorship+ program outward to adjacent districts where PL teacher resource centers are located.
What are the organization's key strategies for making this happen?
Education is vital to ending global poverty. Yet, education alone for impoverished children is insufficient. Your monthly giving provides education plus mentoring and transformational experiences that produce capable godly leaders.
What are the organization's capabilities for doing this?
PathLight provides:
-Access provides tuition, supplies, tutoring, and transportation to all students.
-Mentoring enables students to experience discipleship and Christian character formation.
-Transformation occurs as students receive leadership development, life & social skills coaching, and job-readiness training.
What have they accomplished so far and what's next?
Through its investments in children's education, PathLight's efforts have been having a
multiplier effect. PathLight helps Belize achieve its goals articulated in Belize's Growth and
Sustainable Development Strategy (GSDS, 2016-2020). By educating children, improving teacher
education, and supporting school infrastructure, PathLight contributes to reducing adolescent
pregnancy, increasing literacy and reducing youth recruitment into gangs. This contributes to
citizen security and makes cities more sustainable while simultaneously increasing literacy and
building skills for employment and sustainable livelihoods of the most vulnerable adolescent
males and females in Belize.
On January 7, 2019, after twelve years of proven, dedicated, and results-based programming,
PathLight and the Ministry of Education in Belize signed a Memorandum of Agreement (MOA).
This MOA provided a formal mechanism for strengthening collaboration and coordination with
the Government. This public-private partnership has led to the implementation of joint teacher
training and literacy development programs and the establishment of teacher resource centers
across the country. In August 2019, the Ministry of Education publicly endorsed PathLight's
scholarship model. The model provides a complete wraparound service that enables
marginalized young men and women to access a high school education in Belize.
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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How is your organization collecting feedback from the people you serve?
Electronic surveys (by email, tablet, etc.), Case management notes,
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How is your organization using feedback from the people you serve?
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 strengthen relationships with the people we serve,
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What significant change resulted from feedback?
Board diversity Program improvements
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With whom is the organization sharing feedback?
Our staff, Our board,
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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?
We don't have any major challenges to collecting feedback,
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Operations
The people, governance practices, and partners that make the organization tick.
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Pathlight International Inc
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Board leadership practices
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Board orientation and education
Does the board conduct a formal orientation for new board members and require all board members to sign a written agreement regarding their roles, responsibilities, and expectations? Yes -
CEO oversight
Has the board conducted a formal, written assessment of the chief executive within the past year ? Yes -
Ethics and transparency
Have the board and senior staff reviewed the conflict-of-interest policy and completed and signed disclosure statements in the past year? Yes -
Board composition
Does the board ensure an inclusive board member recruitment process that results in diversity of thought and leadership? Yes -
Board performance
Has the board conducted a formal, written self-assessment of its performance within the past three years? Yes
Organizational demographics
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Equity strategies
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- We review compensation data across the organization (and by staff levels) to identify disparities by race.
- We ask team members to identify racial disparities in their programs and / or portfolios.
- We analyze disaggregated data and root causes of race disparities that impact the organization's programs, portfolios, and the populations served.
- We disaggregate data to adjust programming goals to keep pace with changing needs of the communities we support.
- 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 disaggregate data by demographics, including race, in every policy and program measured.
- We have long-term strategic plans and measurable goals for creating a culture such that one’s race identity has no influence on how they fare within the organization.
- We use a vetting process to identify vendors and partners that share our commitment to race equity.
- We have a promotion process that anticipates and mitigates implicit and explicit biases about people of color serving in leadership positions.
- We seek individuals from various race backgrounds for board and executive director/CEO positions within our organization.
- We have community representation at the board level, either on the board itself or through a community advisory board.
- We help senior leadership understand how to be inclusive leaders with learning approaches that emphasize reflection, iteration, and adaptability.
- We measure and then disaggregate job satisfaction and retention data by race, function, level, and/or team.
- We engage everyone, from the board to staff levels of the organization, in race equity work and ensure that individuals understand their roles in creating culture such that one’s race identity has no influence on how they fare within the organization.