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Here we are, third step in our Web-native social change review series:EducationGeneration.org.

 

 

 

As a project born from Global Agents for Change, a California-based "social change catalyst, driving sustainable solutions to global poverty and inspiring youth to create a better world", EducationGeneration is "dedicated to providing access to education for students around the globe" (from EducationGeneration.org).

 

Beta launched in fall 2008, EducationGeneration has already funded 130 scholarships and raised over $30,000.

 

 

 

As in several other known platforms across the Web (think about Kiva.org), here we witness the Web enabling a process that closely resembles child adoption: users are asked to make their donation directly to an individual, in this case deciding to invest in that boy or girl's education.

 

The process is again as simple as it gets: users browse students' profiles on the EducationGeneration website, pick a student to support, click on the donate button (minimum is 20 dollars)...that's it!:money is processed by PayPal and 100% of it (if we exclude PayPal fees) goes directly to the chosen student's personal education. This is possible thanks to fairly advantageous partnerhips with local institutions, one of them for example being the Canadian SEED. There are not many information about this passage on the site and we will further deepen the matter in the next days.

 

 

 

Information about schools and their costs, partnering institutions in loco, the student' educational stage and even some individual notes on her or his favourite topics and skills, are included.

 

Some of the best assets of EducationGeneration appear to be:

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