We invest in education. We believe in giving students the instruction, resources, and confidence to reach their full academic potential, and we believe that those things should be available to people from all socioeconomic backgrounds. That's why we created the Karma Tutors Impact Fund.
The Karma Tutors Impact Fund, or KTIF, is a sister organization to ours, and the two have been linked from the very beginning. When we first drew up plans for Karma Tutors, we weren't just trying to dream up a way to make a living as educators. Certainly, that was part of it, but we also hoped to meet another, equally important goal: bringing equity to education and the college-entrance process in our community. The result of all that head-scratching was a separate partner organization, an independently governed 501(c)(3), to which we would donate our time, tutoring expertise, and a percentage of our net profits.
The Karma Tutors Impact Fund provides high-quality, one-on-one academic support to students from low-income, native-Spanish-speaking families in our community. KTIF is governed by an independent board of experienced local educators who share our mission to bring equal access to educational support services in the Telluride area. You can learn more about KTIF's mission and incredible community contributions here.
Karma also funds and performs humanitarian service work at home and abroad. We make education a cornerstone of our humanitarian efforts by seeking opportunities to work in schools and fund educational programs. Today, we are in a proud partnership with Partners in Mission in Guatemala (PIMIG), a Maryland-based ministry that has worked for over 20 years to lift up the rural Mayan population of Guatemala. PIMIG has championed numerous humanitarian projects, such as installing safe stoves in every home, building community latrines, funding schools and scholarship programs, and securing medical care for the region. Among these projects is bringing Teacher Mario's International English Academy to the highland villages, a mission that Karma Tutors is incredibly proud to sponsor.