Thanks again, @ben! I really appreciated it.
Now, I’m struggling with this value:
Not for Profit
We strongly believe that, in order for education to work, the learner needs to have the best learning experience possible. In order to achieve that, coaches and team members donate their personal time for the greater good of the community and the learners. It is only with this value as your main goal that you can create the experience needed to encourage learners to continue. If you’d do that for your personal gain the quality would simply suffer.
I don’t think donation is the only model that works with education. Nor it is the best… But I kind agree basic education should be free for students… And, learning about Information Technology, or at least a little programming, is a topic important enough that everyone should know the basics.
For full disclosure:
Very recently I’ve strongly began thinking about trying to teach precisely on those topics… For living. I don’t have a business plan or model yet (who knows if I’m even moving forward with this idea?), but I wished I could build one and offer a service good enough it would be worth paying. Profit would be welcomed to make it grow, but I wouldn’t like it being required to maintain it…
In one plan, I could call it a not-for-profit NGO, but that doesn’t require it to be donation-ware. I would advertise it somewhere the lines of “costs free” meaning you don’t have to pay, but letting it clear there is a minimum amount needed to maintain it and I personally need this amount to keep it alive. It would be a cause, but none usually associated with “donations”, imho.
That being said, I’d like to know more about where that value / idea came from. Why do you think quality of education would necessarily suffer if there is profit? Maybe put in other words, what would you do if donations became profitable (i.e. receiving more money than needed to cover the costs)? Or even, what’s considered a “cost”? Isn’t labour a cost?
Maybe we’re talking about the exact same thing here… If so, how about adjusting that value to something more like this? To me, the details make the whole difference there:
Not for Profit
We strongly believe that, in order for education to work, the learner need to have the best learning experience possible. In order to achieve that, many coaches and team members even donate their personal time for the greater good of the community and the learners. The main goal must be the free exchange of information, in order to create the experience needed to encourage and entice learners. And so, if you’d participate for your personal gain the education quality would suffer.