Partner Selection Application
🟡 If you:
- Are an educational nonprofit organization;
- Work with underprivileged high school students living in refugee camps, rural areas, or underserved communities.
- Need your students to have access to devices and internet and you would like to provide students with both.
🟡 Apply to become a partner!
How does this work❔
- We raise funds through our platform and donors choose to sponsor your project & country;
- We pay Internet fees for the duration of the students’ time at school and one more year after graduation.
- Unless needed otherwise, we transfer money right to the supplier and the supplier provides laptops to your organization.
- We transfer money for Internet fees every 3-6 months (unless needed otherwise).
🟡The local partner has to:
🟨 Laptops
- Identify students in need who qualify for our criteria.
- Find 3-5 local laptop suppliers and solicit prices. Negotiate the best prices for the budget models available.
- Finalize laptop order quantity with GI. Provide invoices for the laptop orders.
- Receive laptops from the supplier and distribute them to students.
🟨 Internet
- Find the best technology internet provider locally. (Listed by priority: Fiber, Copper, Wireless (WiFi) Community Network, 4G, 3G, Satellite).
- Provide Internet prices for each Internet provider in the area.
- Negotiate prices with each Internet provider. Build partnerships with the Internet providers. (unless agreed otherwise)
- Provide payment documents for every student’s Internet fees at the end of 3 months to receive the budget for the next 3 months.
🟨 Impact
- Help students fill out the surveys before providing them with laptops and the internet.
- Coordinate with filling the surveys 12, 24, and 36 months after students have received laptops to measure our impact
- Equip students with online guidebooks on how to leverage the Internet and the computer, links to the EdTech platforms of our partners and other educational resources, and provide educational and technical support to the students throughout their participation in the project.