About brightbeam
At brightbeam, we believe what Frederick Douglass believed: Power concedes nothing without a demand. So our work uses contemporary tools and strategies to demand that every child gets an education that leads to a brighter future.
We were founded in 2014 by Peter Cunningham under the name Education Post. In 2019, after Peter stepped down to chair our board, Chris Stewart, one of the organization’s first employees, returned to take the helm.
Today, brightbeam is the umbrella organization for three national platforms — Education Post, Citizen Education, and Project Forever Free — and more than a dozen other local and regional sites. We recruit and train credible messengers to inform, inspire and organize their communities around education issues and hold decision-makers accountable for providing the learning opportunities children need to thrive.
We are a nonprofit, nonpartisan organization committed to the purpose of shining a light on children living at the margins of American society.
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Brightbeam is the operating name of Results in Education Foundation, a nonprofit private operating foundation under code 501(c)(3) of the U.S. Internal Revenue Service. We’re grateful to our funders, Bloomberg Philanthropies, the Walton Family Foundation, the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative, the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation and the City Fund, for helping support the work of dozens of advocates, activists and contributors all across the country.
Mailing address: 511 Olde Town Rd, #80548, Rochester, MI 48308-9998