The Dibble Institute

Name

The Dibble Institute

Legal name

The Dibble Institute

Website

https://dibbleinstitute.org

Company type

Private

Founded year

1993

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

11–50 employees

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Headquarters

HQ city

Berkeley

HQ country

United States

HQ region

North America

Offices1 record

Markets served

GTM type

B2B

Offering type

Services

Cost components

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

Revenue model

1. Curriculum Sales: Sale of evidence-based relationship education curricula including Love Notes, Relationship Smarts PLUS, Mind Matters, and Money Habitudes. Products available as physical workbooks, digital licenses, and instructor materials.
2. Training Services: Professional development training, facilitator certification, and curriculum training sessions offered both online and in-person. Includes continuing education credits (CEUs) for completed training.
3. Digital Products: Digital license sales processed through PayPal, including digital journals and COLORS Personality Profile tests
4. Donations: Charitable donations accepted through website to support mission of empowering youth with relationship skills

Pricing tiers

Go-to-market motion1 record

Distribution channels3 records

Marketing channels5 records

Core offering

The Dibble Institute develops and sells evidence-based relationship education curricula (Love Notes, Relationship Smarts PLUS, Mind Matters, Money Habitudes) for youth and young adults, delivered as physical workbooks, instructor manuals, and digital licenses. It also provides facilitator training, professional development, technical assistance, and continuing education services to schools, youth-serving agencies, healthcare systems, corrections facilities, tribal programs, and homeless/runaway youth programs. Free toolkits, webinars, and case studies support adoption.

Product overview

The Dibble Institute is a nonprofit organization offering a comprehensive suite of evidence-based relationship education curricula and resources. The portfolio includes core programs Love Notes, Relationship Smarts PLUS, and Mind Matters, which form the primary offerings. These are supplemented by financial literacy (Money Habitudes), specialized programs for system-involved youth (Project WITH), emotional skills development (Me & My Emotions), and free resources (Mind Matters Minutes). Materials are available in multiple formats including Spanish adaptations, with versions addressing Comprehensive Sex Ed, Sexual Risk Avoidance, and Abstinence Only approaches. The organization also provides training, professional development, and technical assistance for facilitators implementing their curricula.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Brands

• Me & My Emotions: A program focused on skills to soothe emotions and build resilience for youth
• Money Habitudes
• Project WITH

Products and services

• Love Notes Comprehensive relationship education curriculum for youth and young adults covering healthy relationships, dating skills, pregnancy prevention, and sexual risk avoidance. Available in versions including Comprehensive Sex Ed (CSE), Optimal Health Sexual Delay (SD), Abstinence Only (AO), and a Sexual Risk Avoidance (SRA) adaptation. Designed for schools, youth programs, healthcare providers, and correctional settings.
• Relationship Smarts PLUS Evidence-based relationship education curriculum teaching teens and young adults healthy relationship skills, decision-making, and dating intelligence. Offered in versions 5.1 and 5.0 with CSE, SD, and SRA adaptations. Used in schools, tribal communities, and youth-serving organizations.
• Mind Matters

Quantifiable outcome

• 88% of youth in Milestone Transitional Living Program achieved Ansel-Casey Life Skills Mastery upon exit
• +3 more outcomes

Named customers5 records

Segments7 records

Ideal customer profiles6 records

Technology focussed No

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Feature3 records

Partnerships

Five partnerships are on record, tiered minor.

• YMCA Camp ConistonminorStrategic or Co-development PartnerPartnership for Children of Incarcerated Parents Summer Camp operated through New Hampshire Department of Corrections Family Connections Center program. YMCA provides camp facilities and programming while Dibble curriculum supports relationship education components.
• Independent SectorminorOthersListed as Proud Member of Independent Sector, a coalition of nonprofits, foundations, and corporate giving programs working to strengthen civic life.
• GuidestarminorOthersCharity rating service displaying Guidestar Gold Seal rating on website footer, indicating transparency and nonprofit accountability standards.
• Wheatley Institute at Brigham Young UniversityminorStrategic or Co-development PartnerAlan J. Hawkins, Affiliated Scholar at Wheatley Institute, serves as webinar presenter for The Dating Recession insights from 2025 National Dating Landscape Survey, representing research partnership.
• Child TrendsminorStrategic or Co-development PartnerChild Trends researchers Mindy Scott and Matthew Rivas-Koehl served as presenters for webinar on Conversation Strategies for Talking with Youth about Healthy Relationships, representing research collaboration.

Scale indicators2 records

Recent moves6 records

Expansion highlights6 records

Direct peers

• Second Step (Committee for Children) - already listed: (Placeholder - already covered above.)
• Positive Prevention Plus: Positive Prevention Plus publishes sexual risk avoidance and healthy relationship curricula for middle and high school students, available in multiple versions aligned to federal funding streams. They are a direct peer because both organizations sell abstinence/SRA and comprehensive sex education curricula to the same Title V and PREP federal grantees.
• Act Raising Safe Kids (American Psychological Association): The APA's Act Raising Safe Kids program is a violence prevention parenting education curriculum distributed through schools and community organizations. They are a direct peer because both organizations sell evidence-based violence prevention and healthy relationship programming into the same school, domestic violence coalition, and youth services buyer channels.
• Search Institute: Search Institute develops the Developmental Assets framework and associated youth programming tools used by schools and youth-serving nonprofits. They are a direct peer because both organizations sell research-backed youth development frameworks and resources into the same schools, youth programs, and community-based organization buyers.
• Ripple Effects: Ripple Effects produces trauma-informed SEL software and curriculum for K-12, with content addressing adverse childhood experiences and resilience. They are a direct peer because both organizations target the same trauma-informed SEL buyer (schools, juvenile justice, child welfare) with research-backed curricula and digital delivery models.
• The Fourth R: The Fourth R is a Canadian-developed evidence-based healthy relationships curriculum for adolescents, including dating violence prevention programming. It is a direct peer to Dibble's Love Notes and Relationship Smarts PLUS because both sell relationship/sexual health curricula to schools and youth programs with similar evidence-based claims and facilitator training models.
• ETR (Education, Training and Research): ETR develops evidence-based sexual and reproductive health education curricula, including programs used in PREP-funded teen pregnancy prevention initiatives. They are a direct peer because both organizations supply research-backed relationship and sexual health curricula to the same federal grantees and school districts, often competing for the same Title V/PREP dollars.
• Committee for Children: Committee for Children produces Second Step, a leading K-8 social-emotional learning (SEL) curriculum used in schools nationwide. They are a direct peer because both organizations sell evidence-based SEL and life-skills curricula into the same school district and youth-serving organization procurement channels.

Broad incumbents

• EVERFI: EVERFI operates a large K-12 digital learning platform covering SEL, financial literacy, and healthy relationships topics for schools and employers. They are a broad incumbent competitor because they overlap with Dibble's Money Habitudes (financial literacy) and Mind Matters (SEL) in school procurement, but at significantly greater scale and as part of a broader portfolio.
• Practical Money Skills (Visa): Visa's Practical Money Skills offers free personal finance education resources for students and adults, distributed through schools and community programs. They are a broad incumbent peer because both organizations sell financial literacy curricula (Dibble's Money Habitudes) into the same K-12 and youth services procurement channels, with Practical Money Skills offering content at no cost.

Market position

Strengths5 records

Weaknesses5 records

Competitive moat4 records

Customer concentration

• Facebookfacebook.com/TheDibbleInstitute
• Instagraminstagram.com/dibbleinstitute
• YouTubeyoutube.com/channel/UCb5WZK5m5kW1yQI_4fGTD5g
• Xx.com/dibbleInst
• LinkedInlinkedin.com/company/dibble-institute

Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Profiles6 records

Funding overview

Funding rounds

Investors

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M&A

Investments

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