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What We Do

InspiringKids is a 501c(3) organization dedicated to facilitating education, environmental stewardship and philanthropy in a controlled and protected environment.

Our Mission

To educate and empower every child to make a difference in local, national and global communities through environmental stewardship and student philanthropy. By tangibly improving the earth and communities, kids recognize the impact of their actions, take responsibility for improving the world, and proactively effect change over their lifetime.

Our Goal

To make the InspiringKids program the cornerstone fundraising program in American elementary schools --regardless of socio-economic level and geographic location-- and give them a comprehensive, easy-to-implement, green fundraiser that encourages life-long civic engagement.

How We Began

The InspiringKids program grew from the simple idea of replacing a traditional nursery school fundraiser, involving a yard sale, with one that truly improved the community. Our initiative was a bulb-a-thon in which families raised money to create a bulb garden in the town park, where kids and parents often gather.

The effort proved successful and provided the foundation for an easy-to-implement program that schools, parents and PTOs/PTAs can use to supplement or replace traditional fundraisers. Our Sponsorship for Stewardship fundraising program has grown to include environmental and social philanthropy components, as well as curriculum tie-ins, turning into a fully experiential-learning program.

Our Impact

The reach of our community is widespread. Not only will participation influence students and school communities nationwide, it will directly impact the non-profits that students support.

• Our pilot schools raised an average of $1,700 for their own school projects and donated an average of $1,000 via their philanthropy accounts.
• If the InspiringKids program were implemented in 2% of the 83,000 US elementary schools, the quantifiable impact would be $2.8 million raised per year for school projects and $1.6 million donated per year to improve the environment and the lives of people worldwide.
• The qualitative impact would be to encourage a generation of young people to proactively improve their own environment and global community one step and one person at a time.

For more information, please see Our Program.

Our Commitment

To Kids: To offer a program that enhances a child's natural curiosity and ability to imagine new ideas. To offer access to a safe community of educators, parents and students learning and sharing in a password-protected environment.

To Teachers: To offer opportunities for teachers to use the fundraising process to enhance classroom learning.

To Parents: To offer organizational tools and data storage to make the process of conducting a fundraiser easy and consistent from year-to-year.