Education in the
places that
need it most.

Working with teachers on Molokai to bring AI and computer science curriculum into local classrooms — designed around place-based pedagogy and the island's own context.

Volunteer teaching at two middle schools in rural Hsinchu, organized in partnership with ITRI — bringing AI and entrepreneurship education to students an hour outside Taiwan's high-tech capital.

In December 2024, the Foundation ran programming in Vietnam — inspired and co-taught by Bao Phan, a former student of co-founder Chuck Eesley — in partnership with Fulbright University Vietnam, UEH University, and an HKU/AWS workshop on AI Innovation & Trends.

AI literacy and design thinking workshops for educators and students in partnership with the Penang Science Cluster, leading Malaysian universities, the U.S. Embassy in Kuala Lumpur, and the All-Party Parliamentary Group on the SDGs. The 2025 Penang program trained ~25 teachers reaching ~2,500 students. In 2026, Lijie launches Project ASPIRAS AI — a 4-month cohort program helping 15 Malaysian non-profits move beyond basic chatbot usage to deep operational AI integration.

In June 2023, the Foundation taught at the LOHADA orphanage in Tanzania alongside James Juma — a former student of co-founder Chuck Eesley who built the connection — and Abisola, a former Stanford PhD student who co-taught. The Foundation also raised funds for a tractor for the orphanage.

In December 2022, Lijie and Chuck traveled to Jerusalem to teach a full-day workshop at MEETConf — MIT MEET's annual conference for current Israeli and Palestinian students and alumni. A single-engagement contribution to a program the Foundation believes in: bringing high school students from both sides of the political divide together for advanced computer science and entrepreneurship education.

Funding microloans for refugee entrepreneurs in Uganda alongside research on what makes entrepreneurship training work for displaced founders. Delivered in partnership with Challenges Uganda (microlending pilot and mentorship) and Makerere University Business School (curriculum and research).

The Foundation's first university partnership. Launched during the pandemic, the SFSU Mentorship Program connected Computer Science majors with SFSU alumni for mock technical interviews and career guidance. The Foundation's direct involvement has since wound down, but the program continues today within the SFSU CS department and its alumni network — sustained by the relationships the partnership helped activate.

In July 2025, the Foundation supported the Improbable Chair at ESCP Business School and its partner L'Ascenseur — Prof. Sylvain Bureau's art-thinking framework applied to non-profit leaders and to organizations working on equal opportunity in France. Chuck taught pro bono across two days of seminars and joined the closing panel at the Musée Postal.

Planned for December 2026 — workshops with college students, teacher training, and corporate AI-and-worker-impact talks, organized with Andrea Sy (Stanford E145 alum and co-founder of Vector) and partner institutions across Metro Manila.