Donate to SEAL

By supporting SEAL, you’re becoming an invaluable partner to both our mission and to the thousands of educators and students our approach impacts every day. See how your generous contribution provides vital resources for biliteracy and bilingualism to our schools. 

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Impact of Donating

Individual donors are an integral part of our ongoing success. Your support enables us to provide high-quality, responsive resources to our most underserved districts throughout California. By donating to SEAL, you become an invaluable partner to both our mission and the thousands of educators, students, and communities our model impacts every day. See how your generous contribution is bringing vital resources to schools across California:

Arming Educators With the Tools and Strategies

Your support provides us the means to support educators with specialized strategies and resources, empowering them to effectively support Dual and English language learners (DLL/ELs) in their unique academic journeys.

Building an Educated Multilingual Workforce

With your support, our schools and educators are able to prepare our students for a multilingual future, giving them the resources to learn, thrive, and lead in the workforce. Your contribution will help to shape a workforce fluent in multiple languages, which in turn will strengthen our local and national economies. 

Advancing Research and Advocacy

Your contributions are crucial in supporting the necessary research and evaluation that underpin our advocacy efforts. This work is essential for promoting educational equity at the state level, ensuring that every student has access to high-quality education.

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Donor Bill of Rights

Philanthropy is based on voluntary action for the common good. It is a tradition of giving and sharing that is primary to the quality of life. To assure that philanthropy merits the respect and trust of the general public, and that donors and prospective donors can have full confidence in the not-for-profit organizations and causes they are asked to support, we declare that all donors have these rights:

I. To be informed of the organization’s mission, of the way the organization intends to use donated resources, and of its capacity to use donations effectively for the intended purposes.

II. To be informed of the identity of those serving on the organization’s governing board, and to expect the board to exercise prudent judgment in its stewardship responsibilities.

III. To have access to the organization’s most recent financial statements.

IV. To be assured their gifts will be used for the purposes for which they were given.

V. To receive appropriate acknowledgement and recognition.

VI. To be assured that information about their donation is handled with respect and with confidentiality to the extent provided by law.

VII. To expect that all relationships with individuals representing organizations of interest to the donor will be professional in nature.

VIII. To be informed whether those seeking donations are volunteers, employees of the organization or hired solicitors.

IX. To have the opportunity for their names to be deleted from mailing lists that an organization may intend to share.

X. To feel free to ask questions when making a donation and to receive prompt, truthful and forthright answers.