Your contribution buys hours, not overhead.

Our funding model is built to direct the maximum share of contributions to student services. We target at least 90% of funding to direct student services and an administrative cost ratio of no more than 10%.

That is achievable because we carry no costs for instructional facilities, tutoring staff, curriculum materials, or specialised equipment. We lease modest office space for donor development, family intake, provider relations, and outcomes tracking — and nothing else.

What your money does

It pays a vetted specialist to teach a specific child to read. Effective intervention runs 80–200 hours at $30–$100 per hour. Every gift converts into some number of those hours.

[PLACEHOLDER] — giving levels expressed in funded tutoring hours, once cost-per-hour is finalised.

How we prove it

We fund only providers who submit progress monitoring on validated measures and quarterly outcome reports. We track reading improvement rates, literacy gains from baseline to exit assessment, programme retention, and enrolment conversion. Indicators are reviewed quarterly.

We intend to publish what those measures show, including where results fall short of what we hoped. An organisation that only reports its successes is not reporting.

Why this model rather than another

A direct-service charity must build infrastructure before helping anyone, and faces a lag between fundraising success and service expansion. We can fund additional scholarships the moment money arrives, and reduce volume without laying off staff or closing facilities if revenue falls. Your gift is not financing a buildout; it is financing instruction.