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The School Fund is a person-to-person crowdfunding platform and nonprofit organization through which donors directly contribute to educational scholarships for low-income students in countries that do not offer free, public secondary school.〔Lamb, Gregory M., () "Matt Severson Funds Students in Need One by One", ''The Christian Science Monitor'', September 16, 2014〕 Like other civic crowdfunding platforms,〔Hollow, Matthew,(“Crowdfunding and Civic Society in Europe: A Profitable Partnership” ), ''Open Citizenship'', vol. 4, issue 1, 2013〕 through The School Fund, large numbers of online visitors support philanthropic efforts by pooling small contributions. The School Fund crowdfunds for students who have been identified by their teachers or local school officials as not having enough money to continue paying to go to school.〔Goodman, Lawrence, ("Matt Severson, '11" ), Brown Alumni Magazine, May/June 2011.〕 Globally, 115 million children do not attend school,〔Unicef,(“On Global Action Week on Education, millions of children still not in school” ), April 23, 2007〕 and school fees contribute to this dropout rate by making education cost-prohibitive for impoverished students in developing countries.〔Epstein, Mark J. and Kristi Yuthas, (“Redefining Education in the Developing World: A new approach that builds relevant marketplace, entrepreneurship, and health care skills is needed” ), ''Stanford Social Innovation Review'', Winter 2012,〕 School fees often disproportionately affect girls, with many impoverished families dedicating their limited money to educating their sons rather than their daughters.〔Weller, Drika ("A Global Education Crisis Disproportionately Affecting Girls" ) Girl Rising.〕 ==Methods== The School Fund employs a donation-based crowdfunding model to fund annual student needs, which start at around $150 per year.〔("For Just $150, You Can Send a Kid to High School" ), ''TakePart Live'', August 14, 2014.〕 Donors give online, but some conduct their own small fundraisers offline for individual students before contributing.〔Gomstyn, Alice ("Brothers Start Pancake Business to Fund Kenyan Teen's School Tuition" ), ''Babble'', July 2014.〕 Donors receive school receipts showing 100 percent of their donation has been applied to the educational costs of the specific student they opted to fund.〔Byrne, Kate,(“Education: Giving Voice and Choice to Girls - That Which Can Be Learned Can Never be Taken Away” ),''OpenIDEO'', March 1, 2014〕 The majority of The School Fund’s students reside in sub-Saharan Africa, where education has been tied to poverty reduction and has been linked to improvements in gender equality, health and nutrition, reductions in infant and child mortality and decreases in the prevalence of HIV/AIDS.〔Kanamori, Mariano J. and Thomas Pullum,(“Indicators of Child Deprivation in Sub-Saharan Africa: Levels and Trends from the Demographic and Health Surveys” ), ''USAID'', December 2013〕 Similar to Kiva's partnership model〔Walker, Ken, ("The Kiva Effect" ), ''Christianity Today'',〕 The School Fund partners with a network of non-governmental organizations which identify qualified students to post on the crowdfunding platform.〔Kendrick, Chris,(“Palo Alto Nonprofit Funds Education Around the World” ), ''Palo Alto Weekly'', September 15, 2013〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「The School Fund」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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