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Worldfund

Field	Value
name	Worldfund
logo	WFLogo.jpg
founded_date	2002
founder	Luanne Zurlo
headquarters	New York, New York
area_served	Latin America
focus	Education
method	Donations, Grants and Partnerships

The World Education and Development Fund, doing business initially as Worldfund and later as Educando by Worldfund is a non-profit organization founded in 2002 that delivers training and ongoing support educators from underserved schools in Latin America. In that time, it has operated 3 leadership and in-service professional development programs for educators in Latin America: IAPE, for English teachers in Mexico; STEM Brasil and STEM Mexico, for science and math teachers; and LISTO, for school directors in Mexico. Nearly 8,000 principals and teachers have participated in Worldfund programming.

Programs

IAPE

The Inter-American Partnership for Education (IAPE) trained, empowered, and supported a network of English language educators in Mexico's most underserved public schools, in association with Dartmouth College's Rassias Center. IAPE operated from 2007 until the outset of the global COVID-19 pandemic in 2020.

Impact by 2020

Launch year: 2007
Number of states: 32/32
Number of educators: over 2,600
Number of students: over 3 million

STEM Brasil

This program addresses the urgent increasing need for professionals in the fields of science, technology, engineering, and math. The STEM Brasil methodology complements the school curriculum. The program engages students with their own teachers during the school day, unlike extracurricular programs.

Impact by 2017

Launch year: 2009
Number of states: 16/30
Number of educators: 3,900
Number of students: 500,000

Evaluation Results

85% of participating schools showed an increase of over 20% in Math scores
74% of school administrators noticed an increase in teacher motivation and 88% positive changes in teacher behavior

STEM Mexico

Worldfund is currently developing the infrastructure to implement its STEM program within Mexico's public schools. Anticipated launch date is 2018.

Areas of Operation

Mexico

México
Ciudad de México
Veracruz
Jalisco
Puebla
Guanajuato
Chiapas
Nuevo León
Michoacán
Oaxaca
Chihuahua
Guerrero
Tamaulipas
Baja California
Sinaloa
Coahuila de Zaragoza
Hidalgo
Sonora
San Luis Potosí
Tabasco
Yucatán
Querétaro de Arteaga
Morelos
Durango
Zacatecas
Quintana Roo
Aguascalientes
Tlaxcala
Nayarit
Campeche
Baja California Sur
Colima

Brazil

Acre
Amapá
Espírito Santo
Goiás
Maranhão
Mato Grosso
Mato Grosso do Sul
Paraíba
Pernambuco
Rio de Janeiro
Rio Grande do Norte
Rio Grande do Sul
Rondônia
São Paulo
Sergipe
Tocantins

References

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