ConnectED

Name

ConnectED

Legal name

ConnectED Fellows

Website

https://connectedfellows.org

Company type

Private

Founded year

2019

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

1–10 employees

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Nonprofit Education Programs

NAICS

Educational Support Services (611710), Educational Support Services (61171)

SIC

Services-Membership Organizations (8600), Services-Educational Services (8200)

akta.pro primary industry

Mentoring, Coaching, Alumni Networking & Peer Support Platforms (EDAFAMAN)

akta.pro secondary industry

Internship/Apprenticeship Matching & Work-Based Learning Platforms (EDAFAMAL)

Keywords

• Rural education programs
• Education leadership fellowships
• Community education development
• Education capacity building
• Nonprofit education initiatives

Headquarters

HQ city

Santa Cruz

HQ country

United States

HQ region

North America

Offices2 records

Markets served

GTM type

B2C

Offering type

Services

Cost components

Personnel, Operations, Technology or R&D, Marketing or Sales, Others

Revenue model

1. Foundation and Grant Funding: Primary revenue from foundations and institutional funders who provide grants for education development programs in Latin America.
2. Individual Donations: Individual donors contribute to the organization through one-time or monthly recurring donations at various levels.
3. Government Partnerships: Collaborations with government education ministries in Nicaragua and Guatemala for regional education initiatives.

Pricing tiers

Go-to-market motion1 record

Distribution channels1 record

Marketing channels4 records

Core offering

ConnectED Fellows operates a fellowship program that identifies, develops, and supports community education leaders (Fellows) in rural Latin America, providing them with capacity development, access to resources and capital, and mentoring and networking opportunities to drive educational transformation in their communities. The organization is also developing ConnecTEC, a digital platform designed to strengthen the work of educational leaders in rural areas by providing tools and resources for community engagement and project management.

Product overview

ConnectED catalyzes a network of education leaders to transform their communities in rural Latin America through a bottom-up approach. The core offering is the ConnectED Fellows Program, which identifies, develops, and supports local education leaders with capacity development, resources, and mentoring to improve educational outcomes. This is complemented by ConnecTEC, a digital platform being developed to strengthen the work of these educational leaders in rural areas. The organization focuses on three impact areas: access to education, quality of education, and relevance of education, operating primarily in Guatemala and Nicaragua.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Brands

• ConnectED Fellows: The main program focused on developing community education leaders in rural Latin America
• ConnecTEC

Products and services

• ConnectED Fellows Program A flagship fellowship program that identifies, develops, and supports community education leaders (Fellows) in rural Latin America. Fellows receive capacity development, mentoring and networking, and access to resources and capital to design and implement community education projects addressing access, quality, and relevance of education.

Quantifiable outcome

• Fellows achieve project implementation and projects are sustained beyond the fellowship period, indicating sustainable community impact.

Named customers1 record

Segments1 record

Ideal customer profiles2 records

Technology focussed No

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Feature1 record

Partnerships

Nine partnerships are on record, tiered core, regional, government partner, organizational and academic.

• Middlebury Institute of International StudiescoreStrategic or Co-development PartnerAcademic partnership engaging graduate students in meaningful internships, research, and field work that support education development in Central America. Students participate in practicum field experience for program design/research and thesis research/projects.
• UNAN Nicaragua (National Autonomous University of Nicaragua)coreStrategic or Co-development PartnerAcademic partnership with university in Nicaragua supporting education research and field work opportunities.
• Reach AlliancecoreStrategic or Co-development PartnerStrategic partnership focused on accelerating local education leaders, with published research and case studies on ConnectED's impact model.
• Focus Central AmericaregionalStrategic or Co-development PartnerRegional organization partner working on education impact in Central America.
• MINED Nicaragua (Ministry of Education)government partnerStrategic or Co-development PartnerGovernment partnership to connect government education strategies with the needs of local communities, teachers, and students.
• Engineers Without Borders USAorganizationalStrategic or Co-development PartnerPartnership supporting engineering and development projects within education initiatives.
• San Diego State University (SDSU)academicStrategic or Co-development PartnerAcademic partnership engaging students in education development field work and research.
• University of Texas at San Antonio (UTSA)academicStrategic or Co-development PartnerAcademic partnership engaging students in education development programs.
• The University of MelbourneacademicStrategic or Co-development PartnerInternational academic partnership supporting education research and fellowship programs.

Scale indicators2 records

Recent moves6 records

Expansion highlights5 records

Broad incumbents

• Teach For All: Global network of independent partner organizations that recruit and develop leaders to expand educational opportunity in their countries. ConnectED Fellows shares the fellowship-for-education-leaders DNA and operates in the same LATAM geographies where Teach For All has affiliate partners (e.g., Enseña por México, Enseña por Nicaragua).
• Varkey Foundation: Global foundation focused on improving education standards and elevating the status of teachers, including through leadership programs in Latin America. Broader in scope and resources than ConnectED but pursues a similar mission of building local education leadership capacity.
• BRAC Education Program: Large-scale international development organization running community-based education and leadership programs across multiple developing countries. Comparable in the bottom-up, locally-staffed approach to education improvement but operates at materially greater scale and geographic breadth than ConnectED.
• Room to Read: Global nonprofit focused on literacy, gender equality, and education systems strengthening across Asia and Africa, with growing LATAM presence. Similar in being a community-rooted education nonprofit, but operates at much larger scale with multi-country program portfolios.

Direct peers

• Enseña por México: Teach For Mexico, a LATAM fellowship that identifies and develops emerging leaders to improve educational outcomes in high-need communities. Operates a near-identical "fellows placed in schools" model in the same region, making it the closest direct peer in terms of program design and target population.
• Escuela Nueva: Colombia-origin nonprofit that transforms rural primary schools through active learning and community participation, now operating across Latin America. Targets the same rural Latin American school systems as ConnectED Fellows with a comparable bottom-up, community-embedded model.
• Students Partnership Worldwide (Restless Development): International nonprofit placing young leaders as peer educators in developing countries to drive education and health outcomes. Shares the leadership-fellowship DNA and community-embedded approach with ConnectED Fellows, though historically more focused on Africa and Asia.

Regional players

• Fundación Escuela Nueva Volvamos a la Gente: Colombia-based foundation that originated the Escuela Nueva model for rural schools, with active partnerships across Central and South America. Comparable rural-Latin-America education focus but works primarily through school-system reform rather than a fellowship pipeline for individual education leaders.
• Fondo de las Américas (FONDAM): Latin American foundation that funds and supports grassroots education and community development initiatives across the region. Operates in the same rural-LATAM education space as ConnectED but functions as a funder/network rather than a direct-service fellowship operator.

Others

• Global Fund for Children: Global grantmaker and capacity-builder that funds community-based organizations serving children and youth, including current ConnectED partner. Not a direct competitor but a relevant comparable as a funder/peer in the same ecosystem of small, locally-rooted education nonprofits.

Market position

Strengths5 records

Weaknesses5 records

Competitive moat4 records

Key risks5 records

Key highlights7 records

Customer concentration

• Facebookfacebook.com/ConnectEDFellows
• LinkedInlinkedin.com/company/connected-fellows
• Instagraminstagram.com/connectedfellows

Compliance4 records

Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Funding overview

Funding rounds1 record

Investors1 record

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M&A

Investments

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