Valor Global Foundation

Every Child Deserves an Education. We Are Building One for Each of Them.

Since 2016, every tuition dollar paid in a Valor school has funded a child’s education in a developing nation. That is the One2One model.

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$35 a month puts a child in school through the One2One program.
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One2One
One student’s education here helps fund one student’s education in Kenya, the Philippines, or Guatemala.
The One2One Model

The story starts with one student. It does not end there.

Valor’s model was built around a simple conviction: education should multiply. One enrollment here creates access for one child there.

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A family chooses Valor

A student begins a Christ-centered education.

The story begins with a family choosing a school that forms the whole student: faith, character, academics, calling, and courage.

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Tuition becomes mission

That tuition does more than pay for one education.

Through One2One, tuition becomes a built-in act of generosity. The model is not extra. It is not occasional. It is part of how Valor was designed from the beginning.

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A door opens

A child in another nation gets a seat in school.

In Kenya, the Philippines, and Guatemala, One2One helps fund education for children who would otherwise have no reliable path to a classroom.

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A community changes

The result is bigger than a transaction.

A child learns. A family gains hope. A school becomes stronger. A community begins to see what is possible when education is built with faithfulness.

$35/month puts a child in school. No complicated campaign. No vague promise. Just education delivered through a model built for sustained impact.

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What we believe

This is not just a funding model. It is a formation model.

One2One teaches students that generosity is not something they wait to practice later. It is something they are formed into now.

A child receives an education. Another child learns to live open-handed. Both are being discipled.

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Education transforms generations.

A classroom is never just a room. It is a door into literacy, leadership, vocation, dignity, and possibility.

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Community multiplies impact.

A school can change a child. A network of schools can change what an entire community believes is possible.

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Purpose changes everything.

Students were not made for themselves alone. They were made to carry courage, generosity, and faith into the world.

This is why the story moves from one student to many: education forms people, community sustains them, and purpose sends them.

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What One Tuition Dollar Has Done

Faithfulness becomes measurable when it keeps showing up.

Since 2016, Valor’s commitment has produced more than a good idea. It has produced classrooms, sustained funding, and thousands of students connected across the world.

7,270

Students connected since 2016.

Students across developed and developing nations have been connected through the One2One model.

$1.15M

Delivered to partner schools.

$1,155,350 in tuition support has gone directly to partner schools in Kenya, the Philippines, and Guatemala.

2016 The year One2One began connecting Valor education to global education access.
90%+ Over 90 cents of every dollar goes directly to students and schools.
0 Valor Global Foundation has never missed a payment to a partner school.

$35/month puts a child in school through One2One. Simple giving. Clear impact. Faithful stewardship.

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Why it matters

The crisis is massive. The response is personal.

Valor Global Foundation was born from a simple conviction: children are not statistics. They are image-bearers with names, gifts, callings, and futures.

Global education gap
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More than 263 million children around the world have no school to go to.

Not because they are not capable. Capable
Not because they lack God-given worth. Worthy
Because no one built one for them yet. Build

A child loses more than lessons. They lose structure, protection, literacy, opportunity, and daily formation. Poverty becomes easier to inherit because no one interrupts it with a different path.

We build and fund Christ-centered education: schools with teachers, accountability, resources, discipleship, and the kind of long-term support that communities can actually depend on.

Because education is one of the ways we honor the image of God in every child. We do not believe access should be reserved for the wealthy, the connected, or the fortunate. We believe every child matters.

Child impacted by Valor Global Foundation education access
School community supported through Valor Global Foundation

This is the turning point of the story: from a global problem too large to hold, to one child whose education can begin.

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Mission, Vision, Values

What we build comes from what we believe.

Before there are classrooms, funding plans, trips, or partnerships, there is a creed: every child is made in the image of God, and education is one way we honor that.

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Mission

Breaking cycles through Christ-centered education.

Our mission is to break the chains of cyclical poverty through Christ-centered education, equipping every student to put courageous faith into action in their generation.

Education is not only access. It is formation, discipleship, and a long-term path out of inherited poverty.
Student formation through Valor Global Foundation
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Vision

A generation transformed by Christ and equipped to change the world.

We believe a generation transformed by Christ and equipped through quality education will change the world. Our vision is to make that generation as large as possible.

The goal is not a small story. The goal is a generation large enough to carry courageous faith into families, communities, nations, and systems.
Global school community through Valor Foundation
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Values

Every child carries gifts the world needs.

We are Christ-centered in everything. We believe every student carries God-given gifts the world needs. Our job is to build the schools that help them discover those gifts and the courage to use them.

Christ-centered education honors the image of God by helping students discover who they are, why they are here, and how to live with courage.
Students and community shaped by mission
Where We Build

We have built schools on four continents. Here is where the story lives.

Valor’s work connects students in developed nations with students in developing nations through education, partnership, and sustained presence.

Online

Valor Global Online

Faith-first, human-led K-12 online education.

Oregon

Valor Christian School International

Beaverton, Oregon school that helped launch the Valor model.

South Korea

Valor International Scholars

A residential school in a globally-minded, Christ-centered environment.

Kenya

Kambiri, Kenya

Two schools supported since 2018 through One2One partnership.

Philippines

Tongko Village

No school became a school. A second build is underway.

Guatemala

Guatemala

Four schools with sustained student sponsorship since 2019.

Valor Global Online

Valor Global Online is a fully accredited K-12 online school serving students across 30 states. Faith-first and human-led, VGO equips students to discover their God-given gifts and bring them into the marketplace, the mission field, and the world.

Valor Global Online

Valor Global Online is a fully accredited K-12 online school serving students across 30 states. Faith-first and human-led, VGO equips students to discover their God-given gifts and bring them into the marketplace, the mission field, and the world.

Valor Christian School International

Valor Christian School International in Beaverton, Oregon was one of the original Valor schools and part of the foundation of the global education model that became One2One.

Valor International Scholars

Valor International Scholars is a residential school for students in grades 6 through 12, located in Anseong, South Korea. VIS serves Korean and international students pursuing an American education and a US diploma in a globally-minded, Christ-centered environment.

Kambiri, Kenya

Intermountain Christian School in Kambiri, Kenya is a One2One partner school that Valor has supported since 2018. Your monthly tuition contribution makes this school possible.

Tongko Village

Tongko Village in the Philippines had no school, no running water, and no electricity when Valor arrived. We partnered with local leaders and the Philippine Government to change that. Today children in Tongko Village go to school. A second build in the Philippines is currently underway.

Guatemala

Through our partnership with JuveNet Ministries, Valor sponsors students at Sonrisa De Amor School in Guatemala. We have been giving to this community since 2019 without interruption.

Ten Years of Faithfulness

Ten years. Zero missed payments. Thousands of lives changed.

Some impact is measured in reach. Some is measured in consistency. Valor Global Foundation has built trust by showing up again and again.

Ten years of uninterrupted giving to partner schools in Kenya, the Philippines, and Guatemala. The point is not merely that gifts were made. The point is that schools could depend on them.
Guatemala partner school supported through Valor Global Foundation
Valor helped build a school in a village that previously had no access to education, including no running water or electricity. Both were helped into place as part of the build.
Philippines school build and community impact
Valor has funded and resourced four partner schools across three countries, with annual on-site evaluations and teacher training to ensure every school meets quality and accountability standards.
Valor South Korea school community
This is not charity. This is a covenant. We show up because Jesus showed up for us. That is the kind of faithfulness schools can build on.
Valor Global Foundation founders and leadership
The mandate

Religion that God our Father accepts as pure and faultless is this: to look after orphans and widows in their distress.

James 1:27

Student served through Christ-centered education
What it means here

We do not serve because children are projects. We serve because they are image-bearers. Education is one of the ways we protect dignity, create opportunity, and answer the call of Christ.

The story now moves from belief to response: if this is our mandate, then education becomes one way we obey.

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Students Who Go

Students who go see the world they are changing.

Since 2016, Valor students have traveled to partner schools around the world, delivering resources, building relationships, and seeing firsthand what it means to live generously.

Students deliver educational resources to schools that rely on consistent partnership. The point is not a photo opportunity. The point is to strengthen the classroom.
Students sit in classrooms and experience the daily reality of the schools Valor supports. They see names, faces, teachers, desks, lessons, and futures.
Around shared meals, students learn that generosity is not pity from a distance. It is relationship, humility, gratitude, and mutual honor.
Students build friendships that last long after the trip ends. They return with a larger imagination for calling, sacrifice, stewardship, and courageous faith.
Faithful Stewardship

Every dollar you give is a trust. We treat it that way.

Generosity should never be vague. Valor Global Foundation exists to move resources toward students, schools, teachers, and sustainable programs with clarity and accountability.

Students and programs first.

Giving is directed toward the actual work: tuition support, classrooms, school operations, teacher support, and student formation.

Accountability is built in.

Partner schools are not abstract line items. They are known communities with annual on-site evaluations and teacher training to maintain quality and accountability.

Sustainable, not performative.

The goal is not a one-time emotional campaign. The goal is durable support schools can build on because children need consistency.

We will not take generosity for granted.

Every gift represents trust. Every report, payment, partnership, and school visit is part of treating that trust with the seriousness it deserves.

Join Us

You were made for more than watching. Here is how to be part of this.

The mission is too large for spectators and too important for vague goodwill. Valor Global Foundation exists to organize resources around children who need schools, teachers, and a future.

The model

One tuition dollar does two things at once.

When a family enrolls a child in a Valor school, their tuition educates their child and funds the education of a child in Kenya, the Philippines, or Guatemala who has no other way to go to school. That is the One2One model.

The formation

Generosity becomes part of the education.

This is what it looks like to raise children who understand they were made for more than themselves. Their education becomes connected to someone else’s opportunity.

The invitation

There is a place for you in the work.

You can sponsor, pray, partner, or go. Different roles. Same mission. Children in developing nations need schools, and the people of God are not called to stand at a distance.

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$35 a month puts a child in school. That is the whole commitment.

$35/month

Pray With Us

Every school in our network is covered in prayer. Add your voice.

Prayer

Become a Partner School

If you lead a school and want to join the One2One network, we want to talk to you.

Schools

Go On a Mission Trip

Travel with your students to one of our partner schools and see what your giving has built.

Go

Your $35 a month puts a child in school.

You do not need to travel to change a child’s life. When you give $35 a month through the One2One program, a child who had no access to education goes to school. That is it. That is the whole transaction. Will you join us?

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Leadership & Governance

Governance is not decoration. It is stewardship.

Valor Global Foundation is guided by leaders across education, operations, finance, leadership development, entrepreneurship, and global school building.

Board of Directors

Leaders protecting the mission.

The board’s role is to protect the mission, steward trust, strengthen accountability, and help the Foundation grow with wisdom.

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Leaders

Board members and founders serving the mission with distinct expertise.

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Fields

Education, operations, finance, leadership, and entrepreneurship.

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Mandate

Steward the mission so more children gain access to Christ-centered education.

Alan Linenberger
Board Chair

Alan Linenberger

Retired Operations Leader, Darigold

Alan brings decades of operational leadership and institutional discipline to VGF’s governance.

Alan Linenberger is Board Chair of Valor Global Foundation and a retired operations leader with a distinguished career at Darigold, one of the Pacific Northwest’s largest dairy cooperatives. He has served with distinction on both the Valor International Scholars campus in South Korea and the Valor Christian School International campus in Oregon.
Angie Taylor
Co-Founder & President

Angie Taylor

Head of School, Valor Global Online | Author | International Speaker

Angie has built and helped fund a network of schools across multiple countries.

Angie Taylor is the Co-Founder and President of Valor Global Foundation and Head of School for Valor Global Online. With 30 years in education beginning in Minneapolis inner-city schools, she has built and helped fund a network of 11 schools across five countries. She is the author of The Way of Valor, host of The Way of Valor Podcast, and a keynote speaker at education conferences across the United States and internationally.
Jeffery Ahn
Co-Founder & Board Member

Jeffery Ahn

Head of School, Valor International Scholars

Jeff brings deep cross-cultural expertise and global education leadership to the board.

Jeffery Ahn is a Co-Founder of Valor Global Foundation and Head of School at Valor International Scholars in Anseong, South Korea, the Valor network’s residential boarding school operating in partnership with Wellington College. A Columbia University Master’s degree holder and Harvard Graduate School of Education alumnus with more than a decade of global education leadership, Jeff brings deep cross-cultural expertise to VGF’s governance.
Sarah Byon
Co-Founder

Sarah Byon

Director & Founder, Plussed+ | Co-Founder, Valor International Scholars

Sarah brings deep operational expertise in international school development.

Sarah Byon is a Co-Founder of Valor Global Foundation and an international education entrepreneur with over a decade of experience founding and scaling premium K-12 schools across Asia. As Founder of Plussed+ and Co-Founder of Valor International Scholars, she brings deep operational expertise in international school development and a proven track record of building globally positioned education institutions.
Marshall Bex IV
Board Member

Marshall Bex IV

Founder, Vooks Inc. | Nike Brand Design Alumnus

Marshall brings entrepreneurial vision, design experience, and innovation leadership.

Marshall Bex IV is a visionary innovator and entrepreneur whose career spans Nike Brand Design, the founding of digital agency Mode Adjust Group, and Vooks Inc., a children’s streaming platform he founded. He is currently focused on advancements in decentralized technology and digital infrastructure, and brings a perspective of courageous faith in action to his role on the VGF board.
P.M. Varghese
Board Member

P.M. Varghese

Portfolio Risk Manager, U.S. Bank | Oregon

P.M. strengthens VGF’s financial governance and capital stewardship.

P.M. Varghese is a financial professional with U.S. Bank in Oregon, specializing in portfolio risk management. His background in banking and financial operations strengthens VGF’s financial governance and capital stewardship as the foundation continues to grow.
Lori Harris
Board Member

Lori Harris

Founder and President, Trademark Leadership | Former Nike Executive

Lori brings leadership development expertise and high-performance team experience.

Lori Harris is the Founder and President of Trademark Leadership and a former senior executive at Nike with more than 25 years of experience developing leaders and building high-performing teams. She is an executive coach and Certified Dare to Lead facilitator based in Portland, Oregon.

Valor Global Foundation is actively expanding its board of directors as the organization grows its national footprint in private school development, ESA program navigation, and international school partnerships. We are seeking leaders with experience in philanthropy, education policy, impact investing, and nonprofit governance who share our conviction that every student deserves access to an excellent, mission-aligned education.

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Interactive Impact

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Every $35 a month helps put one child in school through One2One. Use the slider to see how monthly sponsorship turns into students impacted and annual giving.

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Sponsoring 1 child through the One2One program.

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Total recurring monthly support for students and schools.

Annual Giving
$420

Annual education support generated through monthly sponsorship.

This calculator uses $35 per month per child. Actual giving is stewarded through Valor Global Foundation and supports students, schools, teachers, and sustainable programs.

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