NEF School Stimulus Package 2009 Resource Guide

Nonprofit: The National Education Foundation (NEF), is a 501 (c) (3) nonprofit organization, headquartered in metropolitan Washington, DC. Founded in 1989, after consultations with national leaders including former President Bill Clinton and Intel founder Dr. Gordon Moore, NEF is the world's leading nonprofit organization bridging the employment, digital and academic divides by providing high quality affordable 21st Century online education to millions of students and jobseekers in many countries including the U.S., India, Egypt, Jordan and Mauritius. NEF offers 3,000 high quality online courses and mentoring using state-of-the-art LMS (Learning Management System) and interactive video platform.

Motto: “High quality education for all.”

Mission: To bridge the academic, digital and employment divides by providing disadvantaged students and jobseekers significant educational and economic opportunities through high quality affordable online education, thus empowering them to gain 21st century skills, and thereby enabling them, their families, communities and entire nations to thrive and live in a world free of poverty and terrorism.

Projects: NEF fulfills its mission through the following projects:

1) CyberLearning Academy (www.cyberlearning.org) provides 21st century skills for disadvantaged students in math, science, technology, business and testprep to close the academic and digital gaps The goal is to set up a CyberLearning Academy in most disadvantaged schools in the U.S. by 2020.

2) CyberLearning (www.nefuniversity.org) provides workforce training solutions to close the skills gap The immediate goal is to train one million U.S. jobseekers in Stimulus (ARRA)-related jobs in 2009.

3) NEF International provides academic, digital and workforce training to disadvantaged students and adults in many countries including India, Egypt, Jordan and Mauritius (training the entire population in digital literacy.)

Dr. Appu Kuttan, NEF Founder & Chairman

Advisor to many national and world leaders including President Obama’s team and U.S. Congressional leaders (on the 2009 Stimulus), former Indian Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi (in helping to make India a global IT power) and Mauritius Prime Minister (on transforming Mauritius into an IT-focused nation)
Author of many innovative concepts such as MBS (Management By Systems), CyberLearning, Total Tennis, Win-Win-Win, Holistic Executive, Kuttan Preschool (Mind-Body-Soul Life Style Development) and acclaimed books such as “From Digital Divide to Digital Opportunity”
Philanthropist who donated most of his personal funds from the sale of the World-famous Nick Bollettieri Tennis Academy to the National Education Foundation (NEF), described as a “Dedicated Difference Maker”’ ; 2006 Global Digital Literacy Champion
Mentor to many including world tennis champions Andre Agassi and Monica Seles

Dr. Laurence Peters, NEF Education Director

Former senior official at the U.S. Education Department
Former director of MARTEC at Temple University
Former Professor of Education at University of Maryland
National authority on education technology and QZAB--a zero interest Federal program for schools
Co-author of acclaimed education reform books such as “From Digital Divide to Digital Opportunity,” and “Scaling Up for Success.”

Carey Kriz: NEF Software Applications Platform Expert

Thirty years of experience in higher education, healthcare and technology including substantial experience with IBM, a variety of health care and technology enterprises, and the Web 3.0 interactive secure video platform development
Former CIO of Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine
Author of “The Patient Will See You Now” (2009) series, a view on the future of healthcare, featured weekly on the CISCO website

For more information on NEF

visit www.nefuniversity.org and www.cyberlearning.org or call (703) 823-9999