Education charities

Reduces educational inequality by delivering robotics, English, digital skills, socio-emotional learning and career guidance to 8,000+ low-income students in 31 urban and rural public schools in Medellín and the Nuquí region of Colombia's Pacific coast.

An Indian education nonprofit that uses its 'Teaching at the Right Level' approach to help children master reading and basic math, runs the ASER learning survey, and offers second-chance schooling and vocational training across 24 Indian states and union territories.

Tackles poverty and inequality in sub-Saharan Africa by supporting marginalized girls to attend school and transition into confident young women leaders through its alumnae network (CAMA) of 355,000+ women.

Mobilizes 23,000+ community volunteers across 30,000+ villages in rural India to enroll out-of-school girls and improve foundational literacy and numeracy, and ran what it describes as the world's first Development Impact Bond in education.

Now part of Girl Rising after an October 2025 merger, She's the First advances girls' education and leadership by partnering with 900 community organizations and 295 girl-led chapters in 62 countries on mentorship, leadership training and staff capacity-building.

A Saint Paul, Minnesota nonprofit that collects donated textbooks and library books and ships them by sea container to partner schools and libraries across Africa, sending more than 65 million books since 1988.

Scales Pratham's evidence-backed Teaching at the Right Level approach across Africa, training government school teachers to assess children and teach to their actual learning level rather than their grade to close gaps in foundational literacy and numeracy.

A London-based charity that sets up free, community-led primary schools in remote, marginalized areas of Cambodia, Nepal, Myanmar and Madagascar. It trains teachers in basic literacy and numeracy and works with local governments.