About us

At home or abroad, buildOn’s mission is to break the cycle of poverty, illiteracy, and low expectations through service and education. Across the U.S., buildOn empowers urban youth to transform their neighborhoods through service learning and to change the world by building schools in some of the economically poorest countries in the world.

Since 1991, buildOn has empowered more than 2.3 million hours of volunteer service in the U.S. and constructed more than 1,800 schools worldwide, with nearly 250,000 children and adults attending these schools every day. buildOn has a 4-star rating from Charity Navigator.