Let’s Make a Difference, Together.
There are many ways to make your tax-deductible contribution to Brightworks:
By check (preferred): Made payable to ‘Institute for Applied Tinkering.’ Drop it off at Brightworks or mail to: Brightworks, Attn: Brightworks Annual Fund, 682 Schofield Rd., San Francisco, CA 94129.
PayPal: Simply donate directly on the PayPal site with a credit card (we are charged a 2.2% fee for this, which is why we actually prefer checks).
Stock donations: Gifts of securities are a great way to make a gift and they have significant tax advantages for the donor. Please contact our Finance department for more information.
Employer matching: Matching gifts are a great way to double or even triple your giving. Click here to see if your employer provides matching gifts and use the steps provided. Please let us know to look out for your matching gift by emailing giving@sfbrightworks.org.
Please note that all gifts to the Brightworks Annual Fund are fully tax-deductible. Tax ID 26-4299346. If you have any questions, please get in touch with our Finance department.
A note on employer matching
Do you want to double the impact of your gift to Brightworks?
Many employers have a matching gift program. If yours does, please reach out to your company for their specific details, or reach out to us about making a matching gift by sending an email to giving@sfbrightworks.org.
Key Info
Legal Entity: Institute for Applied Tinkering (or Brightworks, if that is how we are listed in their system).
Address: 682 Schofield Road
San Francisco, CA, 94129
Phone: (415) 701-8700
Tax ID: 26-4299346
Why support Brightworks?
Education is a disruptive technology. Studies of divergent-thinking show that by some measures children lose more than 80% of their creative capacity by the time they leave high school. A pedagogy that successfully fosters and develops creative capacity while instilling the habits of life-long learning and tenacity has the potential to create more opportunity than any other change to society.
At a time when everyone knows that education isn’t optimal, when the only answers seem to be “more homework” and “more testing,” Brightworks represents a revolutionary new approach.
In the past fifty years, we have consistently reduced our expectations in terms of what we think children are capable of. Tinkering School was an experiment in resetting those expectations; in the children who attended and the parents who enrolled them.
Brightworks builds on those successes and shows that children are not only more capable, but actually excited to take on bigger, more sophisticated projects, in an engaging hands-on learning environment. To many, from Sir Ken Robinson, to Dale Dougherty, editor of Make magazine, to the thousands of people who have watched videos of Gever Tulley’s TED presentations, the Arc is a compelling and intuitively better approach to educating children – one with the potential to spread around the globe.