World Education & Development Fund

Specialties

Worldfund is a non-​profit organization, founded in 2002. It operates 3 different programs: LISTO, a principal leadership program, IAPE, an English-​teacher training program and STEM Brasil, a science and math teacher training program, currently working primarily in Mexico and Brazil. More than 4,500 teachers have participated in Worldfund programming, who then go on to impact nearly 1,000,000 students each year.

History

Established in 2002.

Worldfund’s vision is for every child in Latin America to benefit from exceptional educators who inspire them to learn the skills necessary for dignified work and life. Our mission is to deliver world-​class training and ongoing support to teachers and principals from underserved schools in Latin America, fundamentally impacting the system from the bottom up. Worldfund works in partnership with state governments and private corporations to achieve scale and sustainability of its three programs — STEM (science and math teachers), LISTO (principal leadership training), and IAPE (public school English language teachers). Since its founding in 2002, Worldfund has trained 3,000 teachers and principals in Latin America’s public schools. We impact over 540,000 students annually and aim to reach 1.2 million by 2016. Worldfund has offices in New York City, Mexico City, and São Paulo.