Resource Area For Teaching (RAFT)
Resource Area For Teaching (RAFT)
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About this organization
Mission
RAFT’s mission is to help educators transform a child’s learning experience through hands-on education to one that inspires the joy and discovery of learning.
About
Founded in San Jose in 1994, RAFT (Resource Area For Teaching) is a nonprofit providing educators with engaging hands-on learning resources aligned to national content standards. We help bridge the education gap for students and communities by offering engaging STEAM resources to encourage the next generation of innovators, problem solvers, and creators. RAFT does this by providing STEAM Project Kits, Maker Mobile van visits and makerspace builds, STEAM summer camps, tailored educator workshops, and free online learning activity sheets. RAFT’s unique Found Engineering process repurposes donated materials that would have otherwise been sent to the landfill into accessible, low-cost, STEAM Project Kits and assembled by volunteers. Educators, and now parents, can become RAFT members and shop at the warehouse store facility for affordable items devoted to hands-on learning.
Interesting data from their 2020 990 filing
The purpose of the non-profit is stated in the filing as “Raft believes that every child deserves a powerful learning experience. raft's mission is to inspire joy through hands on learning.”.
Their activities were defined as: “Resource area for teaching's (raft) mission is to inspire joy through hands on learning.”.
- As per legal requirements, the non-profit's state of operation is reported as CA.
- The non-profit's address in 2020 as per the filing is 1355 RIDDER PARK DRIVE, SAN JOSE, CA, 95131.
- The form of the non-profit organization shows 38 employees as of 2020.
- Is not a private foundation.
- Expenses are greater than $1,000,000.
- Revenue is greater than $1,000,000.
- Revenue less expenses is -$868,750.
- The organization has 13 independent voting members.
- The organization was formed in 1994.
- The organization pays $1,655,853 in salary, compensation, and benefits to its employees.
- The organization pays $172,188 in fundraising expenses.
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