Data to Impact
Twenty-four Sundays in which a student runs a real project end to end — surveys real customers, prices real goods, sells them to real strangers, and reports on what the numbers came to. Everything they raise goes to the shared Pack with Love goal — backpacks for children in Senegal.
The course is described in full at packwithlove.org — the syllabus, the mentors, and the calendar. This page is where a place is booked.
Sign up free. Pay only if the course runs.
The course runs with 6 or more students (15 max). Sign up first — it costs nothing and reserves your seat. Once enrollment reaches 6, we confirm the course (by ≈ September 6) and email everyone payment instructions — tuition is due only after the course is confirmed. After that point, since the minimum is already met, new enrollments simply sign up and pay together. If the course doesn’t reach 6, nothing was ever charged; we’ll simply invite you to the spring cohort. No payments to refund, no tuition ever at risk.
Data to Impact
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Every teacher in this course — the lead instructor and all guest mentors — volunteers their time. Tuition ($30/session) covers materials, squishy inventory, event supplies, and operations; after those costs, the surplus joins the class’s contribution to the Love & Hope Backpack Project’s shared goal. Tuition is a payment for educational services, not a charitable donation, and is not tax-deductible. Please read the refund and absence terms below before you pay.
Refunds, absences, and the tax question.
Written out in full, because a course that cannot answer these before taking the money has not earned it.
- Before the course is confirmedNothing is charged at sign-up. Payment is requested by email once the 6-student minimum is met; after confirmation, enrollment and payment happen together. If the course never reaches 6, nothing was ever charged — no payments to refund.
- Before September 13Once paid: full refund of the whole $720. No reason needed.
- Through Phase 1
first three sessions, to about September 27$720 less $30 for each session attended. Phase 1 is your trial window — three sessions is a real look, not a taster. - After Phase 1No refund. The class sizes its team claim, its survey and its roles on the final roster, and a seat in a cohort of fifteen cannot be refilled mid-project.
- Medical or relocationDocumented circumstances receive prorated credit toward a future program — it keeps a small project solvent, and keeps your student’s place with us rather than closing the door.
- If we cancelA cancelled session gets a makeup or the season extends. If we ever cancel the course itself, all remaining sessions are refunded in full.
- Missed sessionsNot refunded, but nobody catches up alone: every absence comes with a pack — what the session covered, what the team decided, what is waiting to be picked up. A student who misses a week should stay inside the project, not behind it. After three we ask for a conversation about the role they carry: an adjustment, never a penalty.
- Is it tax-deductible?No. It buys 24 sessions of teaching, and a payment made in exchange for something of equal value is not a charitable gift. What the students raise selling is a different matter — that goes to the shared Pack with Love goal and is not returned to families. The fee buys the teaching; the sales fund the backpacks.