The Building Fund
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The Building Fund is a non-profit organization dedicated to providing children with access to quality education internationally. The Building Fund was founded in 2004 by Jessyca Dudley in response to the need for students of the Tuskegee International School of Ghana, West Africa to receive the supplies, scholarships, and facilities necessary for students succeed in school.
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[edit] Mission
As a charitable foundation The Building Fund works to create and sustain opportunities in education by ensuring that resources in the form of classes, schools, scholarships, volunteer opportunities and educational funding, is available to as many children as the foundation is capable of reaching.
Currently our aim is to complete the construction of the Tuskegee International School and provide scholarships for its orphaned and needy students, fund additional teacher training, and provide opportunities for volunteers to work with the students and teachers at the school.
[edit] Values
The development and expansion of educational opportunities worldwide is crucial to the advancement of children. At a time when 115 million of the worlds 680 million primary school age children do not attend school, the building fund values:
• funding that ensures and improves educational infrastructure, materials and personnel
• expanding and improving educational opportunities, for the most vulnerable and disadvantaged children
• healthy, stable and novel learning environments
• Teachers with proper and continuous training, who encourage active learning and participation from students
• the exchange of students and adults to learn, teach and share in developing educational opportunities
[edit] Goals
Through grants and donations, as well as the hard work of board members and volunteers, The Building fund will create and sustain opportunities in education in the following ways:
• Support the completion of each school served by donating $6,000 over a three year period
• Sustain the maintenance of each school served by donating $1,000 each year thereafter
• Provide a minimum of 15 full scholarships for students at each school served
• Annually provide each school with one week of on site teacher training each year
• Engage volunteers in each school that is served
• Create a network of 3 schools in each country served, with a goal of 9 schools served in three countries by 2015.
[edit] Board of Directors
Jessyca Dudley
Lindsey Jevne
Jaimie Mayer
Max Musicant
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