Experienced with grants? Help Oppia review grant applications to support free education for all.

If you have experience in writing, editing or reviewing grants within the nonprofit sector, and are interested in helping underserved children gain access to education, this is the volunteer role for you! Oppia is looking for passionate individuals to join our Grants and Fundraising Team as grant reviewers, so that we can continue providing free, effective educational materials for underserved learners around the world who are unable to afford them.

To get started, please fill in this form: https://forms.gle/5hwbq9c6AUYdzFqh7

Who We Are

The Oppia Foundation is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit with the mission to provide high quality education to all. We do this through the creation and maintenance of our free-to-use platform, Oppia (https://www.oppia.org), the coordination of our passionate contributors, and the development of critical partnerships with NGOs in the communities we aim to serve.

Where You Fit In

Millions of children are not receiving the education they deserve. Of the 61 million children worldwide who cannot attend primary school, 17 million will never step foot into a school if trends continue. In the wake of COVID-19, millions more children are also seeing interruptions in their daily lives, stability, and education - making it even more difficult than before for many students to get the education they need to succeed.

The learners we serve are typically from low-income families which cannot afford to pay for education; in some cases, the parents may not even have had the opportunity to attend school. Thus, to maintain and improve the services that we offer to them, it is important to source funding that allows us to cover the cost of offering these services. We generally aim to fund operating expenses through individual donations, but there are several major projects we are undertaking (such as core improvements to the website and Android app based on feedback from learners and volunteers) that will require grant funding in order to succeed.

We are therefore seeking volunteers who can help review grant and funding applications that our team writes, and ensure that grant applications are high-quality, accurate and effective prior to submission. Your primary responsibility will be to work with grant writers to review written grant proposals, and ensure that they meet the requirements of grantors and effectively convey Oppia’s mission, programs and impact.

Why Oppia is an Organization You Want to Work With

• Oppia has served over 2,000,000 users.
• Oppia focuses on effectiveness, and conducts rigorous user testing and RCTs to validate the lessons we offer. Learners using Oppia’s lessons have seen gains of 50+% from pre-test to post-test.
• Oppia's contributors actively help to provide students around the world with basic education. Please seehttps://medium.com/@ebelubhuhiose/86b97283edf4 andhttps://medium.com/@ojobusayo99/6e783aaddb74 for examples of our current work.
• Oppia has a community of hundreds of passionate volunteers from across the globe, so our meetings are held online at flexible times.

What Our Grant Reviewing Team Contributes

• Review grant proposals to ensure compliance with grant guidelines, and that they effectively convey Oppia's mission, programs, and impact.
• Suggest improvements to strengthen the clarity, persuasiveness, and impact of grant proposals.
• Provide feedback and recommendations to the grants and fundraising team regarding any gaps or areas for improvement.

If you’d like to help out, please fill in our application form: https://forms.gle/5hwbq9c6AUYdzFqh7 . Thank you!