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John Medo : Student : Iringa, Tanzania

These are The School Fund’s first 32 students, eager to learn and continue their education, but whose future
schooling is in jeopardy due to $150/year school fees. Go ahead, change a life...

1.sort by: x amount needed name 2.filter: none 3.partners: all

Shangwe Mahenge

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John Medo : Student : Iringa, Tanzania

Progress
the previous slide shows some of the new developments we will be implementing this summer.
1. Continued Development of our Website: www.theschoolfund.org - we’re working to implement phase 2 of the website
with a whole bunch of new features.
a. better sort function on the homepage (way to “sort by” and “filter by.” for example, a potential funder will soon be able to
see only students who want to be doctors, or teachers, or lawyers, the idea being that a funder would be more interested in
funding a student they have something in common with.
b. school profiles. we plan to implement the school profiles where schools can request funding for learning materials to
improve quality of educaiton. for example, a school will soon be able to request $500 for 5 new computers, $300 for musical
instruments, $500 for lab equipment, etc.
c. partners. we want to become a clearing house for other ogranizations doing student scholarships, and distrubution of
learning materials. student scholarships are pretty easy to add to our work. students from other organizations will appear on
our website just as students currently do! we hope to eventually partner with other organizations distributing learning
materials--these partnerships may appear on school’s profile pages.

2. Our Summer Trip is More or Less Organized--whew! we’ll be meeting with several students, teachers and government
officials during the course of the trip to help monitor and expand our activities.

3. We’ll be partnering with One Million Lights to distribute solar lights to our partner schools. These items will eventually be
one of many to appear on schools’ profile pages.

4. 28 of 32 students fully funded!

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John Medo : Student : Iringa, Tanzania

Inputs:
volunteer hours, our network of
funders spreading the word,
in-country staff hours, intern
hours, my dad’s hours

Activities:
funding students, funding
schools, fundraising events,
joining “the conversation” aka
blogging

Outputs:
the best, most transparent online
educational philanthropy site
possible, money to schools in
Tanzania

Outcomes:
Short : students in the developing
world in school, students having
new learning experiences, schools
offering new learning experiences,
members of Tanzanian communities
engaged in the education of their
youth, funders around the world
connecting with young people in
need of financial aid
Long : creating a hub of online
educational philanthropy
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John Medo : Student : Iringa, Tanzania

Specific Goals for Summer 2010

1. Get the current 32 students using their online profiles
2. Identify another 10-15 Form 1 students at Lugalo Secondary School
3. Partner with a 2nd Partner School (Ganako Secondary School, Karatu).
4. Identify 10-15 Form 1 students at Ganako Secondary School
5. Launch Lugalo’s School Profile
6. Work-out money transfer process and transfer $5000 to Lugalo for 2009-2010 school year.
7. Develop relationship with Ministry of Education
8. Develop relationship with extracurricular learning centers in the communities (for example, Neema arts & crafts workshop in
Iringa where we hope students will be able to take afternoon classes. these additional expenses may appear on their profile
pages)

So by the end of Summer 2010, this is what we’ll have

1. 60+ students on our website

2. 1 School Profile
3. Money transfer & Receipts for each student that has been funded
4. Students using their profile pages