A portfolio of high-impact education organisations.
Greater Share has selected eight high-impact organisations that are working to transform our current education systems by promoting an expansive vision for education. Collectively, this curated portfolio spans the globe, targets students at every step of the educational journey, and empowers the entire spectrum of educators, with overlap to promote collaboration at key points of synergy. Each NGO, selected by Greater Share, offers a different approach; together, they create a holistic solution set that is greater than the sum of its parts. Greater Share will provide these organisations with long-term, unrestricted funding, as well as coaching, mentoring and strategic support from the Greater Share community.
Greater Share partner education NGOs are effecting change across the globe.
aeioTU aims to develop the potential of children in Latin America to transform their communities and reduce social inequality by providing high-quality early childhood education services. aeioTU’s sustainable model cross-subsidises these services by income to ensure access and affordability. aeioTU also provides professional development trainings, mobilises an extensive network, and offers resources for parents and caregivers. Lastly, aeioTU partners with teachers and institutions to share knowledge and engage in advocacy. aeioTU has impacted the lives of over 400K students and over 23K educators to date. Visit aeioTU’s website to learn more.
CAMFED tackles the poverty-related barriers to girls’ education in sub-Saharan Africa. Their flagship ‘Learner Guide’ program empowers young women who have completed secondary education to return to their local schools to support vulnerable children in their studies. Learner Guides deliver a life skills program and offer psychosocial support in partnership with parents, schools and local officials to help bridge the gap between home and school. Learner Guides in turn acquire a vocational qualification that sets them on the path to formal teacher training. CAMFED has partnered with over 7K schools, impacted more than 4.8M students, and mobilised over 178K alumni. Visit CAMFED’s website to learn more.
Kaivalya Education Foundation (KEF) is a behaviour change organisation working on the most complex problems in the Indian education system by fostering competent and passionate leaders, who are motivated to drive large scale, sustainable change at the grassroots level. They work at the school, district and state levels to promote cutting-edge education practices, robust governance systems, and the creation of an effective teacher workforce. KEF forges and strengthens hyper local collaboration through capacity building of local NGOs and community volunteers and has established centres of excellence to drive a pipeline of innovations customised for local contexts. They operate in 11 states and engage with 50K public education system officials, influencing 1.5 million teachers towards impacting learning outcomes of children. Visit Kaivalya’s website to learn more.
KIPP is a network of free, open-enrollment public charter schools located in 50 communities throughout the United States. 95% of KIPP’s students identify as Black and Latinx, and 88%+ are eligible for federal free and reduced price lunch. KIPP’s mission is to work in partnership with families and communities to create joyful, academically excellent schools that prepare students with the academic and socioemotional skills and confidence to pursue the paths they choose – college, career and beyond. KIPP achieves its mission by building capacity among teachers, parents, families and communities, while amplifying their voices. KIPP is the largest non-profit charter operator in the US, reaching more than 160K students and alumni, and significantly shaping education reform efforts in the US and beyond. Visit KIPP’s website to learn more.
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The London Early Years Foundation (LEYF) is focused on providing high quality, affordable, and accessible nursery education and care to all children across London, with a specific focus on supporting disadvantaged children in the most deprived areas. LEYF provides unprecedented access to high quality Early Years education through their social enterprise cross-subsidy model, which enables the provision of sustainable funded places balanced by fair fees. Their offering is underpinned by the LEYF global training academy and a unique social pedagogy, designed to strengthen children’s educational success by widening their social and cultural capital, and giving all children an equal chance to thrive. LEYF currently supports over 4K children via 39 nurseries throughout London. Visit LEYF’s website to learn more.
The National Institute for Student Success (NISS) is focused on improving the effectiveness of the people that support low-income, disadvantaged and minority college students—counselors, academic advisors, financial aid officers, tutors, registrars—by implementing tech-forward interventions that use AI and machine learning to detect and prevent early indicators of dropout. Their interventions identify warning signs of struggle even before the student is aware of the problem, triggering personalised outreach from support staff. Through this targeted support, the NISS is eliminating equity gaps faced by students from marginalised backgrounds. The NISS is currently working with 30 colleges representing 300K students, 2/3 of whom are from underserved backgrounds. Visit the NISS’s website to learn more.
Teach For All is a global network seeking to tackle the complex challenges facing children in disadvantaged communities by developing a coalition of leaders to address the problem in all its complexity. Each independent, locally led network partner recruits and develops promising leaders to teach in their nation’s under-resourced schools and communities and, with this foundation, to exert ongoing leadership throughout their lives from every level of the system, collaborating with many others to ensure all children can fulfill their potential. Across their network of 61 partner organisations, Teach For All is currently engaging more than 15K teaching fellows during two-year commitments and close to 90K alumni. Its global organisation fosters a deeply interconnected global community, enabling learning and sharing across the network. Visit Teach For All’s website to learn more.
West London Zone works in partnership with local organisations and charities to provide additional opportunities and support to children and young people in West London as part of a collective impact model. In their flagship program, ‘Link Workers’ design and facilitate individualised two-year plans for at-risk youth in collaboration with their families, teachers and local community organisations, with the goal of developing social, emotional and academic skills. West London Zone collaborates with 45 schools and has impacted over 1.3K children. Visit West London Zone’s website to learn more.