Rise To Wellness

Name

Rise To Wellness

Legal name

Rise to Wellness

Website

https://risetowellness.ngo

Company type

Private

Founded year

2022

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

1–10 employees

Short description

Rise to Wellness is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit that builds the World Mental Health Curriculum — a free, six-module, 30-skill preventive mental health program for schoolchildren, validated by a 13-scale psychometric battery and delivered via community-funded teachers to schools in Boston and Pakistan.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Social-Emotional Learning Curriculum

NAICS

Educational Support Services (611710), Elementary and Secondary Schools (6111), Child and Youth Services (62411)

SIC

Services-Educational Services (8200), Services-Social Services (8300)

akta.pro primary industry

Youth Mental Health, Counseling & Wellbeing (Education-Linked) Nonprofits (BPAGADAK)

akta.pro secondary industries

Physical Education & Health Instruction (EDAJAFAL), Health Promotion, Prevention & Wellness Education (EDALAFAF)

Keywords

• Child mental health curriculum
• Social-emotional learning
• School-based wellness programs
• K-12 life skills education
• Psychometric assessment tools

Headquarters

HQ city

East Boston

HQ country

United States

HQ region

North America

Offices3 records

Markets served

GTM type

B2C

Offering type

Services

Cost components

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

Revenue model

1. Individual Donations: Tax-deductible donations from individuals at various giving levels ($10-$10,000+) processed through Zeffy platform. Recurring monthly giving is encouraged as the most valuable support for planning stability.
2. Community Fundraising: Parents and community members raise funds locally to hire teachers who become Rise to Wellness employees. This model ensures schools pay nothing while communities fund their own teachers.
3. Major Donor Gifts: Gifts of $10,000 or more are treated as the start of a relationship. Major donors receive detailed budget walks, quarterly progress notes, and annual reports.
4. Planned & Legacy Giving: Bequests and beneficiary designations create multi-generational impact. Estate planning consultations available for interested donors.
5. Stock & Securities Donations: Gifts of appreciated securities accepted as more tax-efficient alternative to cash donations.
6. Donor-Advised Funds: Grants accepted from DAFs (Fidelity Charitable, Schwab, Vanguard, community foundations) using EIN 93-3363823.
7. Employer Matching: Corporate matching gifts accepted, with many companies matching dollar-for-dollar.

Pricing tiers

Go-to-market motion2 records

Distribution channels4 records

Marketing channels7 records

Core offering

Rise to Wellness develops the World Mental Health Curriculum, a six-module, 30-skill evidence-informed child mental health curriculum designed to be taught in schools through worksheets, role-plays, group activities, and structured dialogues across at least three exposures over a child's school years. The curriculum is offered completely free to schools and children, with outcomes measured through a 13-scale validated psychometric assessment battery. Trained teachers are employed by Rise to Wellness to deliver the program with fidelity, funded through community-based local fundraising.

Product overview

Rise To Wellness offers the World Mental Health Curriculum, a unified six-module program teaching 30 core skills for emotional and social development. The curriculum is delivered through worksheets, role-plays, group activities, and structured dialogues, with each module designed to be taught, practiced, and revisited as children grow. Modules cover: Managing Your Emotions (foundation skills), Building Relationships (communication), General Happiness (wellbeing practices), Getting What You Want (assertion), Creating Your Own Identity (values), and How to Be Part of a Team (conflict resolution). A 13-scale psychometric assessment protocol measures outcomes. Children encounter the curriculum at least three times across their school years through a three-phase model (Conceptualization, Application, Mastery).

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Brands

• World Mental Health Curriculum: A comprehensive multi-year mental health curriculum teaching children 30 evidence-informed life skills across six modules, designed to be free for every school and child.

Products and services

• World Mental Health Curriculum A comprehensive multi-year mental health curriculum teaching children 30 evidence-informed life skills through worksheets, role-plays, group activities, and structured dialogues, delivered in three exposures across school years. Six modules cover Managing Your Emotions, Building Relationships, General Happiness, Getting What You Want, Creating Your Own Identity, and How to Be Part of a Team. Offered completely free to schools and children worldwide, with teachers trained and employed by Rise to Wellness.
• Psychometric Assessment Protocol Pre- and post-assessment battery using 13 standardized psychometric scales measuring social-emotional health, resilience, school belonging, mindful awareness, life hopefulness, self-esteem, wellbeing, and loneliness, with built-in distress-response protocols. Designed to measure actual change in children aged 8–18 across the curriculum's three exposures, meeting academic publication standards.

Quantifiable outcome

• 82% of funds allocated to curriculum development (18% operations)
• +3 more outcomes

Named customers1 record

Segments4 records

Ideal customer profiles4 records

Technology focussed No

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Has API

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AI maturity

App detail

Integration2 records

Feature4 records

Partnerships

Eight partnerships are on record, tiered core and flagship.

• Hope, Zia Colony School, KarachicoreStrategic or Co-development Partner · 1 August 2023Hope NGO runs schools and hospitals across Pakistan serving low-income communities. In August 2023, their chairperson agreed to implement the World Mental Health Curriculum at their Zia Colony school in Karachi once curriculum development is complete. This is Rise to Wellness's first confirmed school partner and proof-of-concept for international deployment.
• Pakistan Institute of Living and Learning (PILL)flagshipStrategic or Co-development PartnerNGO with dedicated psychological assessment translation pipeline operating in all four Pakistani provinces. Identified as prospective partner for Urdu translation and validation of eleven psychometric scales. First step toward deploying curriculum across Urdu-medium schools in Pakistan.
• University of Punjab, Institute of Applied PsychologyflagshipStrategic or Co-development PartnerAcademic institution with supervised 27+ Urdu translation theses. Potential pathway for co-authored MPhil student work on scale validation. Key partner for establishing Urdu-language psychometric validation of assessment instruments.
• ZeffycoreTechnology or Integration100% free fundraising platform for nonprofits. Processes all donations without platform fees or payment processor fees - every dollar given reaches Rise to Wellness. Issues automatic tax receipts. Used specifically because it maximizes donor impact.
• Tufts IARYD (Institute for Applied Research in Youth Development)coreStrategic or Co-development PartnerDr. Richard Lerner's positive youth development center at Tufts University. World-leading child development research institution located locally in Boston. Identified for academic peer review and potential research collaboration on curriculum validation.
• BU Wheelock College of EducationcoreStrategic or Co-development PartnerMultiple relevant research centers at Boston University spanning culturally responsive youth mental health and bullying prevention. Currently in outreach phase for potential research partnerships and academic peer review.
• Human Development Research FoundationflagshipStrategic or Co-development PartnerOrganization already running school-based mental health programs in Pakistan. Led the WHO EASE cluster RCT in Pakistani public schools. Identified as potential implementation partner for scaling curriculum delivery.
• Yale Center for Emotional IntelligenceflagshipStrategic or Co-development PartnerHome of Dr. Marc Brackett's RULER program, implemented in 5,000+ schools worldwide. Identified as methodology reference model for the scale Rise to Wellness is building toward. Provides methodology benchmarking and potential academic credibility.

Scale indicators10 records

Recent moves5 records

Expansion highlights6 records

Direct peers

• Move This World: Move This World delivers SEL programming through video, movement, and educator resources to K-12 schools. Its evidence-informed curriculum and emphasis on educator-led delivery make it a close functional peer to Rise to Wellness's classroom-delivery model.
• Committee for Children (Second Step): Second Step is one of the most widely adopted SEL curricula in U.S. elementary schools, covering emotional management, empathy, problem-solving, and decision-making. It directly competes with Rise to Wellness for the same K-8 SEL curriculum slot and donor/institutional support.
• Soul Shoppe: Soul Shoppe runs school-based SEL and character education programs focused on kindness, empathy, and conflict resolution. It is comparable to Rise to Wellness as a curriculum-plus-school-implementation nonprofit serving elementary-aged children.
• Inner Explorer: Inner Explorer delivers daily mindfulness and SEL practices to K-12 classrooms through a structured, repeatable program. Its emphasis on repeated short daily exposures aligns with Rise to Wellness's three-exposure model for skill mastery.
• Pure Edge: Pure Edge provides SEL and mindfulness curricula and teacher training to K-12 schools, including in underserved communities. It mirrors Rise to Wellness's model of donating curriculum access and training teachers, making it a strong functional peer in the same SEL-for-schools category.
• Yale Center for Emotional Intelligence (RULER): RULER is a research-backed SEL framework developed by Dr. Marc Brackett and deployed in 5,000+ schools worldwide. It is the most direct comparable to Rise to Wellness because both build evidence-informed emotional learning curricula for K-12 schools, and Rise to Wellness explicitly cites RULER as its methodology benchmark.
• Open Parachute: Open Parachute provides a digital, video-based SEL curriculum for K-12 schools covering mental health, emotional regulation, and relationships. It targets the same student outcomes and school procurement channels as Rise to Wellness.

Emerging players

• Big Life Journal: Big Life Journal produces growth-mindset and SEL journals, podcasts, and curricula for children and educators. It is comparable as an emerging SEL curriculum provider targeting the same child emotional-resilience and life-skills themes.

Regional players

• Human Development Research Foundation: HDRF runs school-based mental health programs in Pakistan and led the WHO EASE cluster RCT in Pakistani public schools. It is a direct peer for Rise to Wellness's planned Pakistani deployment and is explicitly listed as a potential implementation partner.

Broad incumbents

• Mental Health America: Mental Health America is a large established nonprofit addressing the full spectrum of mental health conditions across all age groups. It overlaps with Rise to Wellness on the youth mental health and prevention mission but operates at a much broader scope.

Market position

Strengths5 records

Weaknesses5 records

Competitive moat4 records

Key risks6 records

Key highlights7 records

Customer concentration

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Profiles7 records

Funding overview

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