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Ultimate Outcome: Every student knows what they need and how to meet those needs. We're building a platform that helps kids tackle everything from food insecurity to teacher-student sexual harassment to the small anxieties that make them feel trapped at their desks.
Your investment with us is extremely high leverage because you are enabling a small, agile team capable of achieving nationwide change on only 1. Salary (90% of your donation) 2. Self-sustaining cash grants directly to the highest need students (10%, $300/school can feed 50 kids who skip breakfast and lunch every day). Our costs are fixed and our impact is limitless. By going directly to students through social media and student group partnerships (rather than the past 30 years of top-down, unsuccessful policy), we can try to reach every kid.
Long term, we'll be able to cover our own expenses through partnerships with private schools and institutions, revenue that will always go to addressing the needs of the most at-risk students.
In September 2022, I (Ben!) started researching unmet student needs (ask yourself, with your adult knowledge and adult skills, what would you have done differently in high school? we have thousands of actionable answers that we're getting to students, along with the means to change their school experience).
By January 2023, I'd had 100 one-on-one conversations with students in 15 states and observed 300 hours of instructional time. By February, I wrote up a report and shared it with every school I visited. By April (while being a full time student myself!) I'll have taught self-advocacy skills to 70 kids in small groups.
By September 2023:
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We'll give 12,000 kids access to an expansive dataset on their individual school experiences, empowering evidence-based self advocacy.
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We will be facilitating intentional, collaborative discourse between students and their schools nationwide, ending toxic cultural norms.
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There are dozens of other high-impact, innovative programs we're running, and we are hiring (engineers! changemakers! passionate teachers!) to make them possible