Western Union Foundation Announces Grants Supporting Teach For All Education Programs across Several Countries
August 13 2015 - 8:30AM
Business Wire
The Western Union Foundation, reiterating its commitment to
education, today announced US$350,000 in total grants to Teach For
All and four of its network partners in Mexico, Austria, India, and
the United Kingdom.
These grants are part of Education for Better, a
three-year commitment launched at the UN General Assembly in
September 2012 by Western Union and the Western Union Foundation.
The initiative includes philanthropic grants from the Western Union
Foundation, advocacy, products/services, volunteer and marketing
support for secondary and vocational education around the
world:
- A US$250,000 total grant to Teach For
All’s efforts to increase and accelerate the impact of programs
that are cultivating the leadership necessary for change in their
countries.
- A US$100,000 total grant to support
Teach For All partners Enseña por México, Teach For Austria, Teach
For India, and Teach First in the United Kingdom. The grant will
advance education, including secondary level education, through
professional development and training of Teach For All program
teachers.
The partner organizations have a shared vision for expanded
educational opportunity in their countries, by recruiting and
developing diverse individuals from a range of academic disciplines
to commit two years to teach in high need classrooms and to work
throughout their lives, both within and outside of education, in
pursuit of expanded opportunity for children.
“Teach For All is proud to work with the Western Union
Foundation to help expand educational opportunity across the
globe,” said Wendy Kopp, co-founder and CEO, Teach For All. “The
Foundation’s financial support, employee engagement, and volunteer
activities continue to be key to the success of Teach For All’s
efforts globally and to the efforts of our partners locally. We
appreciate their support of these programs impacting thousands of
teachers and students across 36 countries worldwide.”
Teach For All aspires to the vision that, one day, all children
will have the opportunity to attain an excellent education. Given
the breadth and severity of the problem, however, incremental
improvements in education will not be enough to change outcomes for
children from marginalized communities. Teach For All believes that
mobilizing promising young leaders around the world and equipping
them to drive innovative, broad-scale, and systemic change will
help to catalyze the transformational improvements required to
expand educational opportunity.
Today, Teach For All is a global network of more than 35 partner
organizations, and its partners are fielding more than 16,000
teachers (selected from more than 100,000 applicants) who are
reaching over 1.15 million children and have fielded over 43,0000
alums.
“Education plays a powerful role in changing peoples’ lives for
better – translating into stronger, more resilient communities and
economies worldwide,” said Patrick Gaston, president, Western Union
Foundation. “Our partnership with Teach for All and its global
network is an integral component of the Foundation’s Education for
Better program, and demonstrates our continued commitment to
financial inclusion and economic development.”
To date, the Education for Better initiative has provided more
than US$12.7 million to enhance education efforts in 54 different
countries for an estimated 1 million students and 17,000 teachers
worldwide via charitable organizations such as UNICEF, Teach For
All, UNESCO, Mercy Corps, Pratham, Save the Children and Jobs for
America’s Graduates.
About The Western Union Foundation
The Western Union Foundation is dedicated to creating a better
world, where the ability to realize dreams through economic
opportunity is not just a privilege for the few but a right for
all. Through its signature program, Education for Better, and with
the support of The Western Union Company, its employees, Agents,
and business partners, The Western Union Foundation works to
realize this vision by supporting education and disaster relief
efforts as pathways toward a better future. Our combined social
ventures efforts make life better for individuals, families and
communities around the world. Since its inception, The Western
Union Foundation has paid more than $103 million in grants and
other giving. These funds have been pledged to more than 2,760
nongovernmental organizations in more than 136 countries and
territories. The Western Union Foundation, is a separate §501(c)(3)
recognized United States charity. To learn more, visit
www.westernunionfoundation.org, or Follow us on Twitter
@TheWUFoundation.
About Western Union
The Western Union Company (NYSE: WU) is a leader in global
payment services. Together with its Vigo, Orlandi Valuta, Pago
Facil and Western Union Business Solutions branded payment
services, Western Union provides consumers and businesses with
fast, reliable and convenient ways to send and receive money around
the world, to send payments and to purchase money orders. As of
March 31, 2015, the Western Union, Vigo and Orlandi Valuta branded
services were offered through a combined network of over 500,000
agent locations in 200 countries and territories and over 100,000
ATMs and kiosks. In 2014, The Western Union Company completed 255
million consumer-to-consumer transactions worldwide, moving $85
billion of principal between consumers, and 484 million business
payments. For more information, visit www.WesternUnion.com.
About Teach For All
Teach For All is a global network of more than 35 locally led
and funded independent partner organizations with a shared vision
for expanded educational opportunity in their countries. Each
partner recruits and develops diverse leaders to commit two years
to teach in their nations’ high-need classrooms and to work
throughout their lives to increase opportunity for children.
For more information, visit www.teachforall.org, Facebook, or
Twitter.
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