Good Deed Education Fund
● The lack of appeal of the profession of teaching as the average age of teachers is constantly increasing.
● Quality of school leadership (recruitment, leadership, culture and goal setting; empowering parents board).
● The youth drop-out rate after the mandatory level (9 years); not graduating from the next education level.
● The low levels of STEAM skills acquired from school.
Good Deed Education Fund is looking for initiatives that addresses these problems in a measurable way. Through the initiatives we will be looking for ways to increase the quality of education together with leaders from different sectors - public, private, third sector.
Initiatives
We consider each initiative based on the set criteria but there is no unified process. We work with other partners from all sectors and include experts. It can take 4-6 months and several meetings to receive a positive funding decision.

ASÕP: substitute teachers
Good Deed Education Fund is supporting the development of a web-based system to help ASÕP in growing to replace at least 2500 lessons per month in 2021.

Teach for Estonia
With the support by the Good Deed Education Fund, Noored Kooli increases its number of participants by 10 people per year, doubling it up to 50 by 2021.

Internship Program for Educational Leaders
Good Deed Education Fund supports piloting the program in Spring 2020.

Häirekell
To predict and prevent dropouts at high school level in a maintainable way, think tank Praxis offers a two-part solution „Häirekell“ that combines real time big data analysis with latest knowledge of behavioural economics.
While today each year up to 3,000 students either drop out of education or are forced into repetition, the goal of the Education Fund and Praxis is to significally lower it by 2025.

99math
Good Deed Education Fund has acquired a small share of 99math.
www.99math.com

HK Unicorn Squad
Good Deed Education Fund is supporting further development of the program.
https://www.unicornsquad.ee

Codesters.club

Jõhvi Technology School
Jõhvi school is a great example of public-private partnership with a budget of 2.5 million Euros. The curriculum will be based on international 01Edu self-studying system, two years of intense study where 200 students learn on their own pace. The teaching emphasizes team work and developing problem-solving skills. Subjects include databases, networks, software applications and interfaces and UX design.
Founding members
The Good Deed Education Fund was founded by Taavet Hinrikus, Martin Villig, Wise and Bolt.Riivo Anton
Viljar Arakas
Ahti Heinla
Martin ja Terje Henk
Taavet Hinrikus
Gerri Kodres
Norris Koppel
Kristo Käärmann
Piret ja Veljo Otsason
Jaan Pillesaar
Martin Rand
Risto Rossar
Tõnu Runnel
Ragnar Sass
Helen ja Martin Tajur
Dina ja Hannes Tamjärv
Ede ja Sten Tamkivi
Kalev Tanner
Sten Tikk
Priit Vaikmaa
Kaido Veske
Mari-Liis ja Martin Villig
Good Deed Education Fund is run by Good Deed Foundation that has a long term experience in launching and developing impactful societal initiatives.
To find out more please write to Pirkko: pirkko@heategu.ee
Media about us
- 30.10.2020 Estonian Entrepreneurs announced plans for starting Jõhvi Coding school in fall of 2021
- 15.10.2020 The Good Deed Education Fund supports the expansion of two STEAM programmes
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09.06.2020 Estonian tech entrepreneurs boosting education system (Life in Estonia magazine)
- 17.03.2020 Estonia offers its digital education solutions for free to support other countries
- 05.02.2020 The new programme is first to provide company internships to school leaders
- 29.01.2020 Education fund invests 50,000 euros to edtech startup 99math to gamify math studies
- 11.06.2019 Education Fund supports ASÕP (platform for schools to quickly find replacement teachers) with 70,000 Euros
- 05.12.2018 Noted entrepreneurs set up education innovation fund
- 05.12.2018 Trying new things in education in Estonia — getting the education fund off the ground (Taavet Hinrikus blog)