THE FOUNDERS’ 100
Pay It Forward for Every Learner
$100,000. One founding campaign. A world where every learner succeeds.
The International MTSS Association began with a vision shaped over decades of working alongside children and families:
A world where every learner succeeds through high-quality education.
Before there was IMA, there were our students.
Students who challenged us. Students who surprised us. Students whose families trusted us to be part of their educational journeys. Students whose growth reminded us what becomes possible when a child is surrounded by excellent instruction, meaningful support, and people who believe in their potential.
Some of those students changed the trajectory of our lives, too.
The Founders’ 100 is a deeply personal campaign. IMA's Founder and Founding Board members are reaching back to families whose children helped shape the educators and leaders we became—and inviting them to help us pay that impact forward.
Our goal is to raise $100,000 to help create greater access to high-quality education for learners around the world.
YOUR CHILD WAS PART OF OUR STORY.
If you're receiving this invitation personally from one of IMA's founders, there's probably a reason.
Our paths crossed because of a child.
Perhaps we taught your child. Supported them through a challenge. Celebrated a breakthrough. Worked alongside your family. Helped create a school or program that served them. Or simply had the privilege of being one of the educators who accompanied them for part of their journey.
Years later, those experiences remain with us.
They influenced the questions we asked, the work we pursued, and our belief that every child deserves an educational system capable of seeing their strengths, responding to their needs, and helping them thrive.
That's part of what led us here.
And it's why we're coming back to you.
We're asking the families and students who most inspired us to help us create that possibility for someone else.
HONOR YOUR CHILD. PAY IT FORWARD.
For many of the families we're personally inviting, this campaign is especially meaningful.
Your child was part of our journey—and what we learned from knowing, teaching, and supporting them helped shape the educators and leaders we became.
This isn't about repaying the past. It's about carrying its impact forward.
Your child helped shape our story. Together, we can help shape what's possible for the next.
From One Child to Every Learner.
The students who inspired us were all different. But they taught us something remarkably consistent:
Children can do extraordinary things when the systems around them are designed to help them succeed.
That's why we built IMA—to connect research, practice, resources, and people so that high-quality education and support aren't a matter of luck.
What we know about helping students succeed should reach every learner.
From individual students to a global community committed to every learner.
Your Founders’ 100 gift helps IMA:
Translate research into practice.
Put evidence into the hands of educators who can use it.
Connect people across systems and borders.
Bring educators, researchers, and leaders together to learn from one another.
Expand access.
Create more professional learning opportunities for educators across the world.
Keep students at the center.
Build stronger school systems designed around the success of every learner.
Our Goal: $100,000
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