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Three ways to build what comes next.
EdgeUCoin runs one program: eighteen weeks of measured growth with a cohort of students at one school. Running it again takes a school willing to host the weeks, funders willing to stock the rewards students work toward, and volunteers willing to build the parts that do not exist yet.
For schools
Run the eighteen weeks with your students.
A cohort of your students sets goals in three areas (academics, behavior, and one goal worked on at home) and works them week by week for eighteen weeks. Coins are earned against each student’s own week-1 baseline rather than against the rest of the room, so the student who starts furthest back has the most to gain.
What running it involves
A cohort, a room, and a weekly slot.
The program runs on a weekly cadence for eighteen weeks. Your students, your building, your calendar.
A facilitator and a classroom teacher.
A facilitator confirms the workbook each week and sets the coins. A teacher signs off the weekly school goals. Neither role can release a coin on its own, and neither can a student.
A family member on each student’s home goal.
One goal per student is worked on at home and confirmed there. Family engagement is part of the eighteen weeks rather than a separate thing a family joins.
Rewards the school does not pay for.
Schools bring the students. The rewards students redeem are funded by the community, which is what the section below this one is asking for.
Bringing this to a school starts as a conversation rather than an application: the school, roughly how many students, and where in your calendar eighteen weeks could sit.
Talk to us about your schoolFor funders
Fund the rewards students work toward.
A coin means nothing unless what it redeems for is real. Funding EdgeUCoin buys the reward shelf: the things a student can see in week one and spend eighteen weeks earning. Nothing else on this site depends more directly on somebody stepping forward.
What funding covers
The reward shelf, top to bottom.
Smaller items a student can reach within a few weeks, and one larger reward at the top that takes most of the eighteen weeks to earn. The shelf has to hold both. A top reward with nothing under it is decoration, and a shelf of small items gives nobody a reason to keep going in week fourteen.
Real goods, at what they actually cost.
Funding buys physical items and experiences at their real price. Coins are not currency, are never converted, and are never redeemed for money. They are the record of verified work, and the reward is what that record redeems for.
There are no current sponsors.
EdgeUCoin has none, and this site names none. The rewards students redeemed during the 2023 pilot were real and a local restaurant provided them at the time; that arrangement ended with the pilot. Everything ahead of us is unfunded.
A registered nonprofit, with the details on the page.
EdgeUCoin, Inc. is a registered 501(c)(3). The EIN sits in the footer of every page on this site, including this one, and gifts are tax-deductible to the extent the law allows.
EdgeUCoin cannot take a payment on this site yet, and will not put up a control that pretends otherwise. No processor has been chosen. The conversation is the first step, and it is a real one.
Start a funding conversationFor volunteers
Help build what is not there yet.
What follows is not a roster of open positions. It is the list of things that do not exist yet and should, and each one is something a volunteer could build. Nothing here is running with students today.
Where the hours would go
Life skills coaching, if somebody builds it.
The eighteen weeks teach students to notice what they do, name what they value, and hold steady under pressure. What the program has no bench for is adults from outside the building who model those things in person: how to advocate for yourself, how to regulate what you’re feeling before it costs you something, how to carry yourself in a room you didn’t grow up in. Plenty of students never had an adult teach them any of it. Nothing like this runs alongside the eighteen weeks today, and it would have to be designed, staffed, and safeguarded before a single student met a volunteer.
Hours in the room during a cohort.
Setup, materials, and an extra adult in the room while students work: the unglamorous half of a weekly session, and the half that decides whether it starts on time.
Skills a small nonprofit does not have on staff.
Procurement, logistics, writing, design, and the quiet administrative work that a program of this size runs on. Tell us what you are good at rather than which slot you would fill.
Anything involving direct contact with students carries the screening a school requires, and that is a floor rather than a formality.
Offer a few hoursStart here
All three start with the same conversation.
There is no form on this site and no queue behind one. Say which of the three you are and what you want to know, and it goes to a person.
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