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EDUCATIONAL CREDENTIAL EVALUATORS INC

Unlocking the Promise of International Education

aka ECE   |   Milwaukee, WI   |  www.ece.org

Mission

To promote the betterment of individuals' lives and society by ensuring that educational qualifications are fairly and accurately recognized across borders.

Ruling year info

1981

President

Margit Schatzman

Main address

101 W Pleasant St Ste 200

Milwaukee, WI 53212 USA

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EIN

39-1369113

NTEE code info

Professional Societies & Associations (B03)

IRS filing requirement

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Programs and results

What we aim to solve

SOURCE: Self-reported by organization

Since 1980, Educational Credential Evaluators (ECE) has been ensuring that foreign-educated people are respected and recognized for their educational achievements. ECE reviews academic achievements by individuals from other countries and converts them to the U.S. or Canadian system for purposes of studying or working in the United States or studying in Canada.

Our programs

SOURCE: Self-reported by organization

What are the organization's current programs, how do they measure success, and who do the programs serve?

ECE® Aid

A charitable initiative developed to provide fee waivers for educational credential reports for vulnerable populations.

Population(s) Served
Immigrants and migrants
Unemployed people

Where we work

Goals & Strategy

SOURCE: Self-reported by organization

Learn about the organization's key goals, strategies, capabilities, and progress.

Charting impact

Four powerful questions that require reflection about what really matters - results.

The mission of ECE is to promote the betterment of individuals' lives and society by ensuring that educational qualifications are fairly and accurately recognized across borders.

ECE welcomes immigrants and refugees from all countries and remains committed to serving those seeking employment, professional licensure, further education, and other benefits for which educational achievement is a prerequisite.

What ECE does:
ECE provides foreign-educated people an opportunity to pursue their potential, enhancing their life and society.

• Public Servants: As a non-profit, we passionately serve the global community through credential evaluations, refugee assistance, training, and development.
• Thought Leaders: We have a proven worldwide reputation as leaders in applied comparative education and credential evaluation.
• Inside-Out Practitioners: We encourage and empower our associates to lead fulfilling, balanced, responsible lives.

How ECE does it:
As a champion of doing the right thing, ECE leads the industry with excellence, ethics, and care.

• Caring Counsel: We guide our clients with kindness, empathy, and respect.
• Ethical Standards: We hold ourselves and the industry to high standards in actions and offerings.
• Rigorous Research: Dedicated to doing the job right, we seek truth and knowledge and prioritize quality and accuracy in all that we do.
• Continuous Improvement: We are thoughtful about how we can better serve our customers with products and experiences.

Why ECE does it:
ECE honors and promotes the significance of people, education, and opportunity.

• Advocates of Opportunity: We help those in need fulfill their potential and make a contribution through hard work and dedication.
• Education Ambassadors: We respect educational systems and institutions worldwide and are dedicated to honoring authentic credentials.
• Employee Recognition: We pride ourselves on a flexible, respectful, collaborative workplace where people feel valued.

ECE offers outstanding customer service with online chat capabilities. Customers and representatives can always speak with a real person, whether it is a customer service representative, evaluator, associate specialist, marketing or sales representative, or manager or director of ECE.

ECE completes academic credential evaluations and assessments within 5-business days, ensuring quick results for those we serve. This is the fastest turnaround time in the field.

As an industry leader, we use our more than 400 years of combined experience and an average of almost 12 years each, an unsurpassed reference library of over 35,000 publications and files, and service to more than 600,000 applicants. Our rigorous evaluator training process requires 10-12 months of training. Likewise, ECE maintains a secure database of over 250,000 digital sample credentials.

ECE is a charter member of the National Association of Credential Evaluation Services (NACES) as well as a member of the American Association of Collegiate Registrars and Admissions Officers (AACRAO), NAFSA: The Association of International Educators, European Association for International Education (EAIE), and the Association for International Credential Evaluation Professionals (TAICEP).

For over 40 years, ECE has assisted more the 600,000 applicants, thousands of higher education institutes and professional organizations, and educated thousands of professionals through webinars, conference presentations, and virtual summits on credential evaluation, comparative education, and professional development.

We will continue to provide high-quality services to those we serve. Additionally, ECE will continue to innovate through offering new products to customers, higher education representatives, resettlement agencies, healthcare and employment professionals, and other stakeholders.

How we listen

SOURCE: Self-reported by organization

Seeking feedback from people served makes programs more responsive and effective. Here’s how this organization is listening.

done We demonstrated a willingness to learn more by reviewing resources about feedback practice.
done We shared information about our current feedback practices.
  • 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 identify where we are less inclusive or equitable across demographic groups, To strengthen relationships with the people we serve

  • Which of the following feedback practices does your organization routinely carry out?

    We collect feedback from the people we serve at least annually, We take steps to get feedback from marginalized or under-represented people, We aim to collect feedback from as many people we serve as possible, We look for patterns in feedback based on people’s interactions with us (e.g., site, frequency of service, etc.), We act on the feedback we receive

  • What challenges does the organization face when collecting feedback?

    We don't have any major challenges to collecting feedback

Financials

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Operations

The people, governance practices, and partners that make the organization tick.

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EDUCATIONAL CREDENTIAL EVALUATORS INC

Board of directors
as of 03/22/2023
SOURCE: Self-reported by organization
Board chair

Elena Anderson

At Ease Solutions, LLC

Adria Baker

Rice University

Rajika Bhandari

Rajika Bhandari Advisors

Keith Kamperschroer

Sikich LLP (retired)

Arthur Coren

University Canada West

Kavita Pandit

Georgia State University

Kimara Ellefson

Kern National Network for Caring & Character in Medicine (KNN)

Joanna Graham

DG Services LLC & JR Running LLC

Kris Olds

University of Wisconsin-Madison

David Frey

Global Head of CLOs and Broadly Syndicated Loans (retired)

Dave Hynek

Business Fitness, Inc.

Board leadership practices

SOURCE: Self-reported by organization

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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 ? Not applicable
  • 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? Not applicable

Organizational demographics

SOURCE: Self-reported; last updated 8/17/2022

Who works and leads organizations that serve our diverse communities? Candid partnered with CHANGE Philanthropy on this demographic section.

Leadership

The organization's leader identifies as:

Race & ethnicity
Decline to state
Sexual orientation
Decline to state
Disability status
Decline to state

Race & ethnicity

No data

Gender identity

No data

Transgender Identity

No data

Sexual orientation

No data

Disability

No data

Equity strategies

Last updated: 11/11/2020

GuideStar partnered with Equity in the Center - an organization that works to shift mindsets, practices, and systems to increase racial equity - to create this section. Learn more

Data
  • 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.
Policies and processes
  • We seek individuals from various race backgrounds for board and executive director/CEO positions within our organization.