For many students the barrier is access.
Careers in film, music, media, design, gaming and animation increasingly require technical skills, professional networks, and real-world experience. Many students have never met someone working in a career that interests them.
What your gift supports.
Students move from discovering a career they’d never encountered, to building skills, to knowing someone in the field, to real experience — and leave with a clear next step.
Arts Program Expansion
Grants and scholarships for the students and schools that need them most, so a school budget doesn’t decide who gets to participate.
Mentorship & Industry Exposure
Students meet and build relationships with professionals working in entertainment, media, music, design, and technology.
Work-Based Learning
Internships, pre-apprenticeships, and paid apprenticeships that turn classroom learning into real experience.
Removing Barriers
Transportation, program fees, materials, technology, and equipment that would otherwise keep a student out.
Your gift funds the sustained connection between what a student discovers and where it can take them.
How we work with Inspire EDU.
The Foundation and the company share a belief in the power of education, and serve different purposes.
Inspire EDU Foundation
A 501(c)(3) charitable organization.
Raises philanthropic resources to expand access
Determines how charitable funds are used
Accountable to its board, donors, and regulators
INSPIRE EDU, LLC
A for-profit education company.
Develops and delivers educational products and services
Provides curriculum, training, and implementation
Sources, trains, and places teaching artists.
The Foundation mobilizes philanthropic resources and removes financial barriers. Inspire EDU provides the curriculum, the training, and the people who deliver it. That is how a donated dollar reaches a classroom.
Charitable contributions to Inspire EDU Foundation do not subsidize the commercial operations of Inspire EDU. When the Foundation purchases goods or services from a related entity, those arrangements are subject to conflict-of-interest procedures, independent review, and fair-market-value considerations.
Make a donation.
FREQUENCY
AMOUNT
First name
Last name
Organization (optional)
Inspire EDU Foundation is a registered 501(c)(3). EIN 33-5045946. Your gift is tax-deductible to the extent allowed by law.
Other ways to support.
Not every contribution is a financial. Some of the most useful things a partner can provide is an hour, a doorway, or a piece of equipment a student would otherwise never touch.
Ways to give
Donor-advised fund
Recommend a grant to Inspire EDU Foundation through your DAF.
Employer matching
Many employers match charitable gifts dollar for dollar. Your gift may go twice as far.
Stock or securities
Donate appreciated stock and avoid capital gains on the transfer.
Multi-year pledge
Commit over two or three years so we can plan programming instead of chasing it.
Ways to help beyond a gift
These come from the creative industries themselves, and they are what the programs actually run on.
Mentor a student
Give a few hours across a semester to a student who has never met someone doing your job.
Speak or critique work
Join a career panel, run a project critique, or talk through how you got where you are.
Host a worksite tour
Open your studio, stage, set, or office for a morning. For most students this is the first one they have seen.
Offer a placement
Host an internship, pre-apprenticeship, or apprenticeship. The hardest thing to fund is a real seat.
Donate equipment or software
Instruments, cameras, audio gear, computers, and software licenses students would otherwise share or go without.
Sponsor a cohort
Underwrite one program session end to end, with your name on it and outcomes reported back to you.
Run a workplace campaign
Give your team a way to give together, matched or unmatched.
Serve on an advisory board
Help shape what students learn, from someone who hires in the field. We'll follow up to talk through what this involves.