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Our values and mission
What we know
Our Team
Our values
Giveducation envisions a world where every child can reach their full potential to fulfill their dreams through access to equal educational opportunities. We revolutionize the way to engage for-profit education service providers in the charity mission by efficiently utilizing their education resources.
Giveducation offers its merit-based scholarship to students from financial difficulty families. In return, they learn the subjects of their interests in after-school program classes and summer camps to make the steps for their bright future. Giveducation also unites volunteer groups to enlarge their service audience groups nationwide and internationally.
Our mission
Giveducation is a robust platform that connects students who face financial challenges with professional education service providers and volunteer groups that offer after-school and summer learning opportunities.
Giveducation establishes a training platform to foster avid young volunteers who share the same dream of ending educational inequality. We expand their vision and train their leadership character and ability.
Advisory Board
Benjamin Who
Founder, Board Director
Chen Wang
Board Member
Sanskriti Manoharan
Board Member Brown College
Xiuli He, Ph.D.
Professor of Operations Management, UNC Charlotte, Belle College of Business
Ling Luo
Chairwoman, Asian Americans Leadership Council (AALC)
Kirk Cochran
Professor, Lone Star College (Houston, Texas)
Jesse Hu, M. ED. GSE, UPenn
Teacher, FBISD High School (Sugar Land, Texas)
Charles Li
Founder, V2 Admissions
Pamela Libra Cory, J.D.
Retired High School Teacher, Equity Facilitator
Edward Hu, M.B.A. MIT
Associate, Evercore Partners
Kim Liu
Director, E3 Academics (Woodlands, Texas)
Toinette Tinker
Dean of Students, Westside High School
Sarah Turner
Teacher, St. Anthony of Padua Catholic School (Woodlands, Texas)
Victor Chang
Associate Director of Sugar Land SpiderSmart, Community Volunteer
Our Leadership Team
Christina He
Co-founder, President
Anna Yi
Co-president
Michael Zhang
Founder, China Chapter
Steffany Lu
VP, Education
Abhiram Pavuluri
V.P., School Outreach and Relations
Jerry Zeng
V.P., Education
Lewen Feng
Founder, Chapter at Detroit, MI
Erick Lu
Founder, Chapter at New York City, NY
Daniel Wang
Founder, Chapter at Philadelphia, PA
Edward Kang
Co-Director, Staff Management
Teo Liu
Co-Director, Education
Elias Zhang
Co-Director, Education
Amelia Xu
Co-Director, Partner Outreach and Relations
Suhas Vemuri
Manager, Education
Elena Kang
Manager, Education
Melinda Dae
Co-Director, School Outreach and Relations
Joshua Li
Manager, Education
Alan Maynard
Manager, School Outreach and Relations
Charlotte Wang
Manager, Education
Travis Xiong
Manager, Education
Linda Wan
Manager, Education
Leetyan Chen
Manager, Partner Outreach and Relations
Chelsea He
Manager, School Outreach and Relations
Kevin Wang
Manager, Education
Christina Wang
Manager, Education
Jerry Zhang
Manager, Partner Outreach and Relations
Ethan Gao
Manager, Staff Management
Edwin Gao
Manager, Education
Jake Maynard
Manager, Partner Outreach and Relations
Tegan Liu
Manager, Education
Luke Shen
Manager, Education
Kevin Xiong
Manager, Education
Ethan Cai
Manager, Education
Eric Xu
Manager, Education
Roger Cui
Manager, Education
Charlotte Clague
Manager, School Outreach and Relations
Missy Han
Instructor
Johnathon Li
Manager, Partner Outreach and Relations
Khali Ta
Instructor
Angela Pierce
Manager, School Outreach and Relations
Jason Yang
Assistant Instructor
Liv Yang
Instructor
Kyle Zhou
Instructor
Hailey Torino
Instructor
Nathan Fu
Instructor
Sarah Levaro
Manager, School Outreach and Relations
Celina Liu
Manager, Education
Daniel Boster
Instructor
About Giveducation
Summer slack hurts low income students.
During summer vacation, many students lose knowledge and skills. By the end of summer, students perform, on average, one month behind where they left off in the spring. Of course, not all students experience “average” losses — summer learning loss disproportionately affects low-income students. In 2010, President Obama noted, “Students are losing a lot of what they learn during the school year during the summer.”
After-school programs are critical.
A decade of research and evaluation studies, as well as large-scale, rigorously conducted syntheses looking across many research and evaluation studies, confirms that children and youth who participate in after school programs can reap a host of positive benefits in a number of interrelated outcome areas—academic, social/emotional, health, and wellness.
Learning centers, taking on a new role.
Especially after the COVID-19 pandemic, after-school and summer programs play an essential role in our country’s efforts to reopen and rebuild in partnership with youth, families, and the community because they provide safe, developmentally rich settings for learning and development, are seen as trusted partners by families and communities, and have connections to other supports and services that schools and families need.
There's an access problem.
In the U.S., more than 20 million children and youth under the age of 18 lack accessibility and affordability to after-school and summer programs. Research finds that although the demand for after-school and summer learning programs in communities of concentrated poverty is high, two out of three parents living in communities of concentrated poverty say that finding an enriching environment for their child after school was a challenge. Additionally, more than 6 in 10 parents living in communities of concentrated poverty report that the current economic conditions have made it difficult for them to afford placing their child in an after-school program.
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