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Businesses funding systems, not schools
Business leaders often fund schools. In Colombia, a group of them did something rarer: they organised, for the long haul, […]
Emotional wellbeing in crisis settings
A child who has fled war does not arrive at school ready to learn as if nothing happened. Stress, loss […]
Transformative education via WhatsApp
Most early-learning programmes need classrooms, staff and devices. Rocket Learning needed only a phone number. Rocket Learning uses WhatsApp to […]
Training grandmothers to support learning
Zimbabwe has 15 million people but only about ten psychiatrists; the biggest barrier to mental health care is not knowledge […]
Giving teenagers the keys to their own learning
TUMO started from a contrarian bet: give teenagers the keys to their own learning and they will go further than […]
Maya women benefit from a school system embedded in their culture
Fewer than two in ten Maya women finish secondary school, and more than half are married or mothers by the […]
Closing language gaps with a tested method
NELI is low-cost programme that narrows the language gap between poorer children and their peers before it’s too late A […]
One low-cost change imrproves learning for 80 million children
In much of the developing world, children fail to learn not because the classroom is built around their age instead […]
Emergency education response becomes national infrastructure
In the middle of a war, an emergency education response is built from the ground up to be owned by […]
IEFG Scenarios Series: Governments Lead Education Progress
What does ‘working with government’ really mean? IEFG and JustSystems asked education philanthropy to imagine a future in which governments […]
Dramatic results in one of Brazil’s poorest cities
Sobral tops national education rankings by focusing an entire system on a single goal. 40% of the children in the […]
From Funding to Partnership: a Multilateral Perspective on Philanthropy in Public Education Finance
In this article: 3 key problems with philanthropic education funding 1 Insufficient funding is allocated to education in low and middle-income […]
Perfectionism, Silos, and Fear: Lessons from the Intersection of Climate-Education Philanthropy
With her IEFG Fellowship coming to a close, Yasmein Abdelghany reflects on her experiences working with education funders over the […]
Why we co-hosted the IEFG BIG Series on Climate and Education
A blog post by Sophie and Nick Marple, co-founders of Gower Street. Gower Street is a UK-based family foundation which […]
Equity, Evidence and Empowerment for EdTech
Three women. Three organisations. One mission: to ensure EdTech solves the world’s most pressing education challenges. Edtech is, unfortunately, dominated […]
From Egosystem to Ecosystem: Collaboration Within Education Philanthropy
I’ve been thinking a lot about collaboration… I joined the International Education Funders Group (IEFG) Secretariat in November 2023 with […]