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Institute for Education, Research, and Scholarships (IFERS)
“Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world.” – Nelson Mandela
Adopt a School
Adopting a school is much more impactful than adopting a schoolchild in need. New Mercy Care Schools are supporting orphans, vulnerable, and less fortune children of Mathare slums in Nairobi, Kenya by providing them basic needs in terms of education, food, and medicine.
Create a Legacy - Namesake for Major Donor
Create your legacy today: New Mercy Care Schools shall be renamed according to the wish of the major donor.
Due Diligence
We have conducted due diligence on New Mercy Care Schools via both online visits and in-person onsite inspection since 2018.
Active or Turnkey Management
Major donor may choose to actively manage New Mercy Care Schools as much as possible or as little as necessary. For example, major donor can serve on the school board, teach at the school, or even cook school meals as a chef.
Minimum and Renewable Commitment
A minimum of 1 year financial commitment and fundraising is expected, during which the school is renamed to the major donor’s namesake. Donor may make an annual 100% tax-deductible donation and/or partner with us on fundraising to meet the annual financial requirement. The commitment can be renewed every year indefinitely.
Transferability
If, for any reason, the annual renewable commitment is no longer an option, we will need a 60-day advance notice from the major donor so that New Mercy Care Schools shall be transferred to another major donor.
For more information, please email us at info@ifers.org or call us at +1 323-825-2637.
Click on the following button to download the latest annual report for academic year 2022-2023.
New Mercy Care Schools
New Mercy Care Schools in Nairobi, Kenya provides primary and secondary education by educating, feeding, and taking care of orphans, children from less fortunate families, and those affected by HIV/AIDS and COVID-19 from Mathare Slums of Nairobi, Kenya. The schools educate 250+ children from the age of 3 to 18, catering for all their educational needs until they complete their primary and secondary education level. All the schoolchildren are under the care of our dedicated teachers and volunteer teachers who teach, guide, counsel, and encourage these children in a biblical way.
Everyday Arts
Everyday Arts produces collaborative and creative learning opportunities for students and families with diverse needs by providing engaging art-integration Professional Development for educators. Using the power of the arts to foster human connection, our research-based methodology combines social-emotional learning with arts and academic skills to support student growth.
Everyday Arts provides for special education needs, and it partners with iLEAD Empower Generations, a free public charter school that specializes in helping pregnant and parenting teens achieve their high school diploma.
The Sun Cinematography Awards @ USC School of Cinematic Arts
The Sun Cinematography Awards are given to female students enrolled in the University of Southern California (USC) School of Cinematic Arts for excellence in cinematography. The awards include mentorship with a working cinematographer, production workflow support from Blackmagic Design, a cinematography budget for a project for which the recipient is the DP, a one-year student membership to Women in Film, and a one-year membership to the Friends of the ASC (American Society of Cinematographers) as well as an invitation to the ASC Awards if available.
Past scholarship recipients include Becky Baihui Chen, Shelby Adair, Madeline Leach, Angelique Molina, Alex Spence, Alanna Hanson, Leonora Anzaldua Burke, and Janine Sides.
Angeles Workshop School
The Angeles Workshop School is a revolutionary independent middle and high school in Los Angeles that incorporates role-playing games and social justice into a democratic learning model, providing a truly authentic education for inquisitive teens. We believe that the cognitive and the affective are indivisible: Simply put, a learner's feelings and concerns, as well as their interests, are wholly tied into how effectively they think and learn. This is why we design and adapt our curricula around our learners, finding effective alternatives to standard assignments and tests. Within this exciting approach, our teachers maintain a dynamic curriculum rich with avenues for rigorous inquiry, built around challenging content and skillsets that prepare learners for real success in higher education, the workplace, and our ever-changing world.
The High School Music Company
The High School Music Company is an industry-Compton High School outreach partnership program to make dreams happen for gifted high school students. The goal is to set up a student-run record company, providing the students with the basics of what it takes to get a record company up and running. In the process, students will learn about music recording, A&R, songwriting, performance, promotion (website and social media), and distribution.
K-12 Teachers Conference
The 501(c)(3) nonprofit Institute for Education, Research, and Scholarships (IFERS) is the fiscal sponsor of the 2019 ECET2 (Elevating and Celebrating Effective Teachers and Teaching) Southwest Conference covering the states of California, New Mexico, Nevada, Arizona, Utah, and Colorado.
Please email us at info@ifers.org for organizing teachers conferences.