Refugee Education
edSeed
Connecting donors, education organizations, and students to crowdfund for education
Our solution's stage of development:
EarlyOur solution:
App connects donors,education organizations and students to crowdfund for education. Donor selects student profiles, pays schools tuition.
Our pitch:
Build a global education community of donors, students requiring financial aid, academic institutions and corporates furthering education funding
edSeed: an education focused crowd-funding social network developed bytheVIP.fund (US-based 501c3 supporting youth education through programs and incubating tech and media startups) delivered on Android & iOS
Key features
Detailed student profiles: Degree, location, aspirations, academic performance, video & photo updates engaging donors actively
Donor campaign selection: filter students by degree, location, gender, university
University verification: addresses donor concerns over student data integrity & fund distribution by having education institutions validate student enrollment & directly receive funds
Endorsement: students can seek endorsements through their social network to raise their profiles
Grant Matching: Donor organizations incentivize, individual donors by matching their donations
User acquisition
Educational institutions - on-boarding universities through training programs; once trained, a university connects their student records and financial systems through APIs to validate student enrollment & transfer funds to University-held student accounts
Students - training programs delivered by VIP.fund fellows in the field to orient students with the app and the crowd-funding process
Unique proposition
Ongoing campaign updates - using familiar social media skills, students keep donors aware of & interested in their updates & obtains endorsements from their community on other social networks
Transparency & credibility addresses donor concern over campaign credibility by verifying student enrollment & sending funds directly to the educational institution
Analytics - provide campaign insights & analytics to educational institutions & donors
Address an overlooked demographic - most education aid goes to K-12, few solves the growing problem for university students funding, a segment able to support entire families upon graduation
The problem:
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Why our solution will solve the problem:
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Solution Team
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Rama Chakaki Co-founder, VIP.fund
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edSeed