Serving American children, Kindergarten through Grade 12
Maggie's F-W is a family of six independent programs and three creative blogs, built over more than ten years and dedicated entirely to improving educational opportunity for K–12 students in the United States.
The idea
Maggie's F-W was created more than ten years ago with a single purpose: to improve educational opportunities for American children in grades K–12.
Rather than one site trying to do everything, the vision is nine focused destinations. Six are full programs built to function as independent websites. Three are blogs where children's own creativity — art, craft and writing — becomes the content.
Points earned in one place, technology earned for a school, a lesson learned about saving: the parts are separate by design, and connected by purpose.
Programs 01 – 06
Every program below is designed to run on its own — its own audience, its own purpose, its own front door.
A label-based program built for one job: helping schools obtain the technology that strengthens teaching. Children collect points on specially designed sheets and hand them to their school.
Two components — the Stamps and the Educational Labels
A virtual banking-education tool that teaches children to save and to build responsible financial habits — the ideas first, long before the money.
First initiatives — the Albums and the Grand Collection Structure
A storefront of products designed especially for children — chosen with the same audience in mind that every other Maggie's F-W site serves.
An independent program with a similar structure, created to generate the revenue that keeps every Maggie's F-W site running.
A virtual school for K–12 students offering practical, age-appropriate instruction across eleven subjects — showing how classroom knowledge is used in everyday life.
See the eleven subjects →A donation platform that helps sustain Maggie's F-W and the educational objectives behind every one of its sites.
How Waves of Kudos works
Maggie's F-W sells its stamps and educational labels to participating companies, who place them on their products. The rest is up to the children.
Participating companies buy the stamps and educational labels and place them on their products.
Students gather stamps and labels onto specially designed collection sheets at home and at school.
Completed sheets are submitted to the school administrators designated to receive them.
Schools use the points to obtain the technology-related items they need, through our website.
Component one
Collectable stamps that carry point value onto a child's sheet.
Component two
Labels placed on participating products, collected the same way and submitted together.
Savings Bank®
A virtual banking-education tool designed to teach children about saving and responsible financial habits.
Please note: any future transition to a real savings institution would require appropriate legal and regulatory approval.
The first of the program's two major educational initiatives.
The second, giving the saving habit a shape children can see growing.
EduDolphin® — the virtual school
Practical, age-appropriate instruction for K–12 students across the subjects below.
These subjects are not intended to replace a regular K–12 education. They are designed to show how academic knowledge can be applied in everyday life.
Blogs 07 – 09
Making, writing and talking to one another — with adult oversight built in from the start.
A private, invitation-only social-media platform designed for children — with appropriate adult oversight and safety protections.
A creative program where children show their artistic and hands-on skills — and earn points for the work they share.
A creative program where children show their writing skills — and earn points for every piece they publish.
This is the vision behind Maggie's F-W
Schools, participating companies and supporters all have a part in it. Tell us which one you are and we will point you to the right door.