Building Tomorrow

Building Tomorrow received a gift in the amount of $10,000 to further its fund raising efforts.  The Indianapolis-based organization builds community-sustained schools in Uganda.  Recently recognized by the Clinton Global Initiative, the organization has made a pledge to build and open 60 schools across Uganda by 2016 using its unique fund raising model.  Chapters are established at colleges and universities; each raise $20,000 to build a 10-room school to house 325 children.  As a chapter finishes its fund raising cycle, it begins to raising another $20,000.  In order to complete its pledge, the organization must expand its fund raising efforts and recruit additional college chapters.  Monies granted enabled the organization to complete the recruiting effort and add additional chapters to fund raising efforts.

For the last six years, Building Tomorrow has empowered young people to invest their resources, time and talents in providing students in East Africa with access to education.  Working with the Ugandan government, the organization issues a challenge grant to rural communities with no access to primary school education.  In exchange for provision of building materials and skilled labor, each community provides three acres of land and 20,000 hours of unskilled labor for the construction of a ten-room academy, complete with classrooms, library, main office, toilet and a playing field.  Once built, the academy opens as an official public school, with the Ugandan government supplying teachers and operating costs.