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“211 programs and 1,854 hours of trilingual learning are already built, published, and operating. We are not asking you to fund a platform — we are asking you to fund putting it in front of 100,000 people and proving what it does for them.”
$100,000 does not build anything. It puts existing capacity in front of 100,000 people across the Dominican Republic and Latin America, gets roughly 4,000 through assessed programs, and produces the outcome data that justifies scaling.
What “100,000 people” actually means
A flat number invites the obvious challenge: reached how? We tier it, because depth is what costs money and because a claim that survives scrutiny is worth more than a bigger one that doesn’t.
Heavy digital leverage with a deliberate in-person core, so the work is never only screens. Our headline metric is not the 85,000 — it is the ~4,000 assessed completions, each with a diagnostic on either side.
What US$100,000 buys
Twelve months. Every line is delivery; none of it is platform construction.
Figures are planning assumptions for a 12-month program, refined against our own delivery history before any final agreement.
The questions you should ask us
Every funder asks these. We would rather answer them here than be asked them later.
“How do you count the 85,000?”
Page views are not reach, and we do not count them as such. Our floor is a completed action — a tool used, a guide worked through, a resource downloaded — not a visit. If you prefer to discount the open-digital tier entirely, the program still delivers ~12,000 structured completions and ~3,000 people in person.
“Who validates the results?”
The evaluation line is not padding. Without independent review the whole claim is self-reported, so it is the line we protect rather than the one we cut. The platform already carries diagnostics before and after each program, which makes real outcome data possible rather than aspirational.
“Is a team this lean actually able to deliver?”
A small human core leveraged by AI staff is exactly why cost-per-person is around a dollar — and we would rather name that than let it read as understaffing. The human core coordinates, and partner facilitators deliver. The AI does not replace the people in the room; it removes the work that used to make reaching this many people unaffordable.
“What happens when the money runs out?”
Transfer to local facilitators happens inside the funded period, not as a promise afterwards. Partners keep their academy, their participants, their data and their trained people when the program ends. That is a budgeted activity, not a closing paragraph.
“Isn’t this just delivery to people?”
Most proposals fund exactly that. Ours funds the opposite, and the budget shows it: train-the-trainer and partner enablement are line items, not rhetoric. Our social-impact stance is the Impact Arc — Engage → Enable → Inspire → Empower → Connect — created by our founder as the creed “NEVER HELP”. The word help implies asymmetry: someone who knows better, supplying solutions to someone who doesn’t. At this budget we could not deliver everything ourselves even if we wanted to — so Empower and Connect are structural, not aspirational. We present the Arc honestly: it is an organisational philosophy and design position, conviction and practice — not an evidence-based framework.
Why the arithmetic works
We do not scale by doing everything ourselves. We partner with social-impact and community organizations, academic institutions and sectoral associations — the people who already hold the trust of the communities we want to serve. They coordinate the programs and events; we give them everything behind them, including their own white-label digital academy.
What a grant does not pay for
- 211 programs · 1,854 hours already produced, in English, Spanish and French — of which 60+ programs, 200+ learning experiences and 250+ hours sit directly in the six social-impact initiatives (labour transition, inclusion, accessibility, financial health, waste economy, finance for women)
- A white-label academy per partner — own address, logo, colours, chosen programs, own administrators, certificates under their name, private by default
- The platform itself — built, published and operating today
- Assessment infrastructure — diagnostics and certification already in place
This is CEMI’s co-investment, and it is the reason a hundred thousand dollars can reach a hundred thousand people.
The full delivery model is described on CEMI Social Impact.
Fund the reach, not the build
We work with grantmakers, corporate social-investment programs, development agencies and private funders — at the full US$100,000 program, or at the level of a single sector, cohort or in-person series.