Worldwise Education, Inc. (WE) is a privately held for-profit corporation whose mission is to provide school children everywhere with equal access to learning opportunities by supplying schools, teachers and students with educational materials and resources that are in critical need. WE works with a diverse customer base of non-profit organizations, businesses and individuals to achieve its educational initiatives.
Founded
October 2003
Headquarters
Worldwise Education, Inc. 1464 East 29th Street, Signal Hill, CA 90755
Telephone: (562) 595-9600, Fax: (562) 595-9611, www.WorldwiseEducation.com
Management
Charles Paul, CEO
Products/Services
WE produces and sells papered-art products under its Artwork for Education™ brand. Consumers are the end-users of WE’s products, including non-profit parent-teacher organizations that sell these products to fund their school programs. Product packaging, point-of-sale, licensing and promotional items comprise the company’s business sets.
Educational initiatives
WE’s market-based brand uses student artwork on papered-art and other products to underwrite its educational initiatives. Artwork for Education enables schools to harness the consumer marketplace as a sustainable fundraising source. In addition, WE is developing WExchange™—an internet portal that will give teachers access to donated school supplies, instructional web casts and interactive learning modules. Scheduled WExchange site launch: 2007.
Markets served
The foundation of the WE brand is market-based support for students and teachers. The purchase of WE products is a means for non-profit organizations, businesses, and individuals to demonstrate this support. School fundraising entities are WE’s core business. Women—who account for the overwhelming percentage of all greeting card purchases—are the primary purchaser of WE products.
Cornerstone Relationships
WorldWise, Inc. (www.BeWorldWise.org) is a non-profit organization headquartered in Massachusetts whose mission to support world-wide education through donations of supplies and funds to teachers and schools. As of 2005, WorldWise has provided schools around the world in excess of 80 tons of donated school supplies.
Media Contact
Pete terHorst, 828.684.9890, media@worldwiseeducation.com
