Since day one, Karma Tutors has been linked to the Karma Tutors Impact Fund. When we first drew up plans for Karma Tutors, we were looking for more than just a way to make a living. We also hoped to meet another, equally important goal: bringing equity to education in our rural 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 net profits.

The Karma Tutors Impact Fund provides high-quality, one-on-one academic support to students from socioeconomically disadvantaged students in our community. KTIF works with schools to catch students in need and pair them with professional educators. For five years, this organization has worked to close the access gap by providing literacy intervention, subject remediation, test prep, college counseling, and ESL support for students whose families demonstrate a real financial need. The classic barriers to access—financial vulnerability, first-generation status, limited English—take their toll on families, but KTIF is working to ensure that they no longer stand in the way of a child’s future.

KTIF is governed by an independent board of experienced local educators who share our mission to bring equal access to educational support services in rural western Colorado.