Educational Nonprofit Coalition (ENC)
Who we are:
The ENC is a student-founded not-for-profit coalition of organizations championing open online collaborative programs that teach knowledge and skills with compassion and personalization. We support student-run organizations that teach students.
What we do:
Provide a platform for sharing resources, opportunities, and events at our email list edu-nonprofit-coalition@lists.stanford.edu.
Foster partnerships across educational institutions for mentoring, share pedagogical best practices, and work on collaborative projects.
Join:
https://mailman.stanford.edu/mailman/listinfo/edu-nonprofit-coalition
What projects we plan to collaborate on:
Content
ENC Resource list: https://airtable.com/shrRYQQomoOPrJ7A8
Entertainment resources: https://airtable.com/shrRYQQomoOPrJ7A8
Outreach
Bringing orgs into our coalition!
June 28th meet and greet minutes here
Next meeting August 22nd at 8pm ET at https://harvard.zoom.us/my/coviz
Nonprofit advising
Tech
A webinar hosting site
A repository of MOOC links ranked, collected, and ordered
Advisory Board:
Carole Trone
Daniel Needleman
Aditi Limaye alimaye@stanford.edu
CVC + Intercollegiate Discord, Boston
Bored of Boredom LA NYC
Summit Tutoring NYC
Operation CORE Cambridge
CovEd Cambridge
Today and Tomorrow MD
College Key Foundation
LEAP Canada Vancouver
Refinity FL, MD, PA, GA, VA
Two types of organizations: Members and Organizing partner (bolded).
Coronavirus Visualization Community
Main Contacts:
Akhil Kumar: akikumar16@gmail.com
Lucas Chu: lucaschu@college.harvard.edu
Scott Blender: tun85085@temple.edu
Blurb:
The Coronavirus Visualization Community is a community of high school and undergraduate students as well as graduate students and professionals all around the world working together on projects while learning more about data visualization and data science. We were started as a branch of the CVT but now have multiple partnerships and have our own COVID-19 Research course with over 120 enrolled students and have an Intercollegiate Discord where high school and college students from all over the world can attend events, workshops, and talks. Also, we have multiple projects that are underway such as a data visualization project which has over 20 sub-projects and a testing kit project where we are currently collaborating with a company to distribute FDA approved testing kits all around the world!
Size of your organization: 30 Student Advisory Board Members and 1000 members
Link to Join: https://bit.ly/Join-CVC
Summit Tutoring
Main Contacts:
David Laszczkowski: dlaszczkowski2003@gmail.com
Ajay Singh: ajaybugs123@gmail.com or ajay.singh@stonybrook.edu
Blurb:
Here at Summit Tutoring, we are dedicated to helping you achieve success without having to pay exorbitant sums for it. After all, our motto is Bridging The Divide In Education, which means we're dedicated in helping students overcome their doubts about the SAT, college applications, and much more! We are a student-run organization and believe in the value of peer tutoring!
What we can provide:
Discord help (1-on-1 tutoring)
What we need:
More members
Size: 27 tutors and 1420 members
Link: https://discord.gg/HCNxC94
Website: https://summittutoring.net/
Logo:
Bored of Boredom
Contacts:
Organization: boredofboredom20@gmail.com
Hope Shinderman: hshinderman1@hwemail.com
Yvette Copeland: ycopeland1@hwemail.com
Athalia Meron: ameron1@hwemail.com
Sarah Kageyama: sarahkageyama@gmail.com
Blurb:
Bored of Boredom provides free individual and group enrichment opportunities in both academic and non-academic subjects. We give learning opportunities to all, especially those who are receiving minimal to no remote schooling. The students in our program are mainly Pre-K to 8th grade, but we offer individual tutoring for high schoolers. We strive to bring enrichment opportunities to those who have historically been excluded from them; as such, the vast majority of participants in our program are neurodiverse or English as a second language students.
Size of your organization:
210 tutors and around 400 students
What we can provide:
Funding help
What we need:
Partnerships
Link: https://www.boredofboredom.org
Beyond The Five
Main Contact:
Gabe Gormezano: team@beyondthefive.com
Blurb:
Beyond the Five is a nonprofit organization dedicated to empowering students worldwide to succeed in their journey towards higher level education through 150+ free, online, self-paced courses including AP®️, SAT®️/ACT®️ prep and college-level classes. Our instructors include students from Johns Hopkins, Columbia, Harvard, Vanderbilt, Stanford, MIT, Waterloo and more! We currently have 500+ students from 30+ countries enrolled. Registration is open year-round to anyone, anywhere, of any age. Secondary/post-secondary students interested in making a difference in the lives of students worldwide can join our teaching team and all are welcome to join our virtual learning community via Discord!
Size of your organization:
160 staff and 1600+ members
What we can provide:
Course advice
What we need:
Mentors
Link to join: http://beyondthefive.com/
College Key Foundation
Main Contacts:
Organization: collegekeyfoundation@gmail.com
Linda Lin: llin1@college.harvard.edu
Lucas Leanza: lleanza01@gmail.com // lleanza@stanford.edu
Website (domain pending): https://collegekeyfoundati.wixsite.com/collegekeyfoundation
Recent Article: https://www.civilbeat.org/2020/06/we-must-reimagine-college-guidance-programs/
Blurb:
The College Key Foundation is a budding non-profit that guides underrepresented students through the college process by offering a free, virtual college-mentoring summer program. By providing quality, free college guidance services, we hope to remedy some of the inequalities in our education system that have been exacerbated by the economic hardships and academic disruption from COVID-19. As a part of our program, we hold panels with students, educators, and admissions officers, have one-on-one mentoring sessions, college editing, and more.
Size: 20 staff members, 140+ mentees, 100+ mentors
What we need: Partner organizations to present panels & long term cooperation plans (expanding in size and reaching more communities); help finding financial support
What we can provide:
Mentoring services;
Press coverage and pitching for articles to be recognized;
Paperwork and certification of nonprofit status;
Help with outreach + contacting school and school-board members, reaching universities & admission officers to collaborate with your organization
The College Key Foundation’s family of mentors and mentees and their talents, passions and determination!
Operation CORE
Main Contacts:
Taia Cheng: taiacheng@college.harvard.edu
Katie Gao: katiegao@college.harvard.edu
Blurb:
Operation CORE is a non-profit program providing College Mentorship and Academic Tutoring to students. Our goal is to fundraise for underserved communities affected by the COVID-19 pandemic. All proceeds go towards Operation CORE's Community Relief Fund, which currently supports Stand for Children and Boston's Asian Community Development Corporation's Asian Emergency Relief Fund. You can find out more at http://operationcore.com.
What we can provide:
Harvard affiliation
What we need:
Fundraising - marketing
Size: 46 volunteer mentors
Link: http://operationcore.com
Simply Neuroscience
Main Contacts:
Chinmayi Balusu: chinmayi@simplyneuroscience.org
Aravind Krishnan: aravind@simplyneuroscience.org
Blurb:
Simply Neuroscience is an international non-profit organization dedicated to fostering students’ interdisciplinary interests in the brain through neuroscience and psychology education, outreach, and awareness. Our goal is to build a stronger bridge between neuroscience and psychology in high school and higher education while increasing the impact of these fields on local, regional, national, and international levels. Simply Neuroscience creates a highly collaborative atmosphere among team members in hopes of providing a space for everyone to pursue their passion for learning about the brain; we welcome and highly encourage students with diverse and interdisciplinary interests.
Size of the organization:
10 Board of Directors members, 3 Advisory Board members, 200+ general staff members
What we can provide:
What we need:
Link: http://simplyneuroscience.org/
Logo:
Homework Help Discord Server
Main Contact: discordhwhelp2019@gmail.com
Info/Blurb: Here at Homework Help discord, we have many tutors and helpers who are ardent about helping others who struggle with their homework. We were established with the vision of bringing people from around the world that share the same ideal. That is why we created, Homework Help Discord: A homework help based community that conjoins people that are eager to help others and people that need help.
What we can provide: Expert Discord Server Setup Help
What we need:
Size of organization: 1500+ Members
Link: https://discord.gg/HjnTKjd
Students for Black Lives
Main Contacts: studentsforblacklives@gmail.com
Blurb:
We are a group of high school and college students in the United States who provide college mentorship for those who donate to #BLM organizations. If you submit proof of your donation through our registration form, we will contact you and assign you with a mentor specifically matched to your academic and college admissions related needs. ALL OF THE FUNDS RAISED WILL BE GOING TO ORGANIZATIONS THAT SUPPORT BLACK LIVES MATTER AND FIGHT AGAINST POLICE BRUTALITY. All of our mentors are volunteers.
Size: 8 Directors, 70+ mentors
What we can provide: help with outreach + engaging students, organizing
What we need: partners to help us spread the word
Link: http://studentsforblacklives.org/
Logo:
Sparky Prep Tutoring
Main contacts: sparkyprepresponses@gmail.com
Blurb:
Sparky Prep is a free tutoring service for the SAT and related standardized tests designed to help you achieve success without having to pay exorbitant sums for it. We are student-run and believe in the value of peer tutoring. We also provide free essay review services. We operate mainly through Discord, and we offer both one-on-one and group tutoring.
Size: 30+ tutors
What we can provide: help with running a Discord server + advertising
What we need: partners, web dev help
Link: https://discord.gg/g3ujbF7
Today and Tomorrow
Main contacts:
Melissa Jones: majones.sci@gmail.com
Organization email: questions.todayandtomorrow@gmail.com
Blurb: We are a group of students from Prince George’s County, MD who want to help rising seniors in the county better understand and navigate the college application process, with a focus on first-generation, low-income, and immigrant students. We provide free 1 on 1 mentorship, webinars, and useful resources to interested students. We believe that all students should feel supported in the college process and hope that guidance from peers who were once in their position is a greatly beneficial but widely untapped resource.
What we can provide: Help with outreach
What we need: Partners to help organize a virtual college fair
The Mentorship Project
Main Contact: Abigail Romero (aromero@college.harvard.edu)
Blurb: A project that seeks to tackle the systemic inequities in education by democratizing mentorship in matching underprivileged high school students with undergraduate students to guide them through the college application process.
Org Size: 20+ board members, 10 ambassadors, 200 mentors/mentees
What we can provide: Help with outreach, educational resources
What we need: Help with outreach, compiling resources, partnerships, interested speakers for our webinars on college readiness, career paths, majors, etc.
Links: Linktr.ee (https://linktr.ee/mentorshipproject); Instagram (https://www.instagram.com/mentorshipproject/); LinkedIn (https://www.linkedin.com/company/thementorshipproject/?viewAsMember=true)
Logo:
LEAP Canada
Main Contact: Maggie Chen (cxqmaggie@gmail.com)
Blurb: LEAP started in the middle of the COVID-19 pandemic. Driven by a group of university students that had experienced their first year, many of whom did not have access to enough resources nor guidance entering post-secondary. As an organization run entirely by students, we want to use our experience to be mentors - especially in this time where their fears may be even greater with so much uncertainty and change. We hope to create an impact on these students' professional and academic development, so they can find their footing with ease throughout this transition.
Org Size: 10+ internal team members, 50 mentor/mentee pairings, 200+ webinar sign ups
What we can provide: Platform to share your resources
What we need: Dedicated students in UK, USA, India, or any other country interested in building out this organization internationally
Refinity
Main Contact: Alhassan Bangura (abangura@refinityedu.org | abangura080@gmail.com)
Blurb: Refinity provides a combination of academic resources alongside tutoring/interactive learning services and community events geared towards the specific needs of today’s secondary level children, concentrated in standard subjects (introductory/”Pre-AP” math), vocational subjects (Pre-medical), miscellaneous life skills (chess, organization), and test preparation (SAT, ACT, AP exams). In addition to consistent tutoring, we also host monthly “initiatives”, such as our Summer Prep Camps for the SAT and ACT and a Pre-Medical Interest Camp.
What we can provide: Custom educational resources, initiative ideas and platforms, tutors
What we need: Help with initiative/program advertising, speakers for college advice sessions
Links: https://linktr.ee/refinity, https://refinityedu.org
Logo: