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Industry

Industry

Education
Education
Education

Headquarters

Headquarters

Cambridge, MA
Cambridge, MA
Cambridge, MA

Founded

Founded

2024
2022
2022
2022

Who We Are

EdAccess Lab is a 501c3 tax-exempt organization that provides affordable advising services and tools to education nonprofits that are dedicated to creating pathways to postsecondary education for first-generation, low-income students.

Challenge

Since the COVID pandemic, more than 1.3 million students have dropped out of the college pipeline. Low-income and students of color have dropped out at higher rates, deepening existing inequities and limiting opportunities to break the cycle of poverty. While education nonprofits have had great success in placing a majority of their students in four-year colleges, there are far too few seats available to meet the demand from underserved students. EdAccess aims to address this gap by helping these education organizations grow. We partner with them to expand their reach so they can provide critical support to more students.

1.3M

Students who need support

Students who need support

< 10

avg # of staff per nonprofit

avg # of staff per nonprofit

150K+

# of education nonprofits

# of education nonprofits

Where we can help

Where we can help

We support your organization with a blend of innovative thinking, flexibility, and actionable solutions.

Our Offering

Get strategic support

Our team provides tailored, hands-on advising to guide your organization where you want support to grow.

Our Offering

Get strategic support

Our team provides tailored, hands-on advising to guide your organization where you want support to grow.

Our Offering

Get strategic support

Our team provides tailored, hands-on advising to guide your organization where you want support to grow.

Our Offering

Access world-class advisors

Our network includes highly experienced advisors who have worked in both nonprofit and for-profit organizations. While they each have unique skills, they all share a passion for equity in education.

Our Offering

Access world-class advisors

Our network includes highly experienced advisors who have worked in both nonprofit and for-profit organizations. While they each have unique skills, they all share a passion for equity in education.

Our Offering

Access world-class advisors

Our network includes highly experienced advisors who have worked in both nonprofit and for-profit organizations. While they each have unique skills, they all share a passion for equity in education.

Our Offering

Leverage the power of AI

EdAccess advisors work with clients to identify AI tools to increase operational efficiency. Clients have had success in using these tools to create content for websites, social media posts, and newsletters. Additionally, customized AI tools can be developed to meet specific organizational needs.

Our Offering

Leverage the power of AI

EdAccess advisors work with clients to identify AI tools to increase operational efficiency. Clients have had success in using these tools to create content for websites, social media posts, and newsletters. Additionally, customized AI tools can be developed to meet specific organizational needs.

Our Offering

Leverage the power of AI

EdAccess advisors work with clients to identify AI tools to increase operational efficiency. Clients have had success in using these tools to create content for websites, social media posts, and newsletters. Additionally, customized AI tools can be developed to meet specific organizational needs.

Our Offering

Learn alongside similar organizations

We bring together nonprofit clients to learn from each other and benefit from best practices.

Our Offering

Learn alongside similar organizations

We bring together nonprofit clients to learn from each other and benefit from best practices.

Our Offering

Learn alongside similar organizations

We bring together nonprofit clients to learn from each other and benefit from best practices.

Our chosen sectors that focus on education:

Nonprofits

Nonprofits

Higher Education

Higher Education

Philanthropy

Philanthropy

Community Organizations

Community Organizations

Mission

Our mission is to empower education nonprofits to overcome barriers to sustainability and growth, enabling them to support exponentially more underserved students to access postsecondary education.

Vision

Every motivated, under-resourced US student will have access to a supportive pathway to higher education.

Our core values

While we recognize each client is different, our values stay consistent.

Innovation: Challenge assumptions, be curious, and take risks.

Wisdom: Bring discernment, insight, and understanding.

Collaboration: Actively share, regularly audit, distill, and improve.

Equity: Be fair, impartial, and just.

Humility: Listen, support, and serve the common good.

Why EdAccess Lab

We know your context

We have worked in education and understand what it’s like on the ground.

We are affordable

We provide world-class service while working within your budget.

We focus on sustainability

We build practices and structures that are long-lasting in your organization.

We bring new perspectives

We provide fresh ideas for strategy, communications, and technology that are informed by our deep experience.

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CLIENT TESTIMONIAL

CLIENT TESTIMONIAL

HMS MedScience

HMS MedScience

HMS MedScience

The EdAccess process engaged all of us - all our different voices and perspectives - and that was an amazing team-building exercise.

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Meet our leadership team

Meet our leadership team

Pam Haering

Executive Director

Pam is an experienced brand strategist and social entrepreneur who is passionate about education equity. Pam’s 30 years of non-profit board work and consulting have been focused on creating educational access for students worldwide and improving youth mental health outcomes. Before working in the non-profit space, Pam was building brands as a VP, Account Supervisor at J. Walter Thompson and BBDO advertising, the Vice President of International Ad Sales Marketing at Time Warner Turner, and a division creator and Senior Vice President at Viacom. Pam earned her BA from Dartmouth College, a master’s degree in education from the Harvard Graduate School of Education, and is a Fellow of Harvard’s Advanced Leadership Initiative (ALI) and the Harvard EdRedesign Lab.

Yefei Jin

Sr. Project Architect

Dr. Yefei Jin, Senior Project Architect. Yefei Jin has spent his career supporting mission-driven, nonprofit organizations, from start-ups to institutions of higher learning. Yefei and Pam met and recognized their shared passion for education equity while both attending graduate programs at Harvard. After completing his doctorate in Organizational Leadership from the Harvard Graduate School of Education, Yefei combined his technical experience and Change Management skills to lead teams across innovative, change-driven environments. He is now building transformative technology in the Education Sector.

Karin Beecher

Deputy Director

Karin comes to EdAccess after a career as an operational and strategy consultant in higher education. At PricewaterhouseCoopers and Cap Gemini Ernst & Young, she led initiatives with education and nonprofit organizations to address challenges ranging from business process inefficiency to strategic operational decisions. Through the course of her work, Karin developed a keen interest in the issues around college access and persistence for low-income, underrepresented students. She holds a master’s degree in education from the Harvard Graduate School of Education and was a Fellow at the MA Alliance for Early College.

Pam Haering

Executive Director

Pam is an experienced brand strategist and social entrepreneur who is passionate about education equity. Pam’s 30 years of non-profit board work and consulting have been focused on creating educational access for students worldwide and improving youth mental health outcomes. Before working in the non-profit space, Pam was building brands as a VP, Account Supervisor at J. Walter Thompson and BBDO advertising, the Vice President of International Ad Sales Marketing at Time Warner Turner, and a division creator and Senior Vice President at Viacom. Pam earned her BA from Dartmouth College, a master’s degree in education from the Harvard Graduate School of Education, and is a Fellow of Harvard’s Advanced Leadership Initiative (ALI) and the Harvard EdRedesign Lab.

Yefei Jin

Sr. Project Architect

Dr. Yefei Jin, Senior Project Architect. Yefei Jin has spent his career supporting mission-driven, nonprofit organizations, from start-ups to institutions of higher learning. Yefei and Pam met and recognized their shared passion for education equity while both attending graduate programs at Harvard. After completing his doctorate in Organizational Leadership from the Harvard Graduate School of Education, Yefei combined his technical experience and Change Management skills to lead teams across innovative, change-driven environments. He is now building transformative technology in the Education Sector.

Karin Beecher

Deputy Director

Karin comes to EdAccess after a career as an operational and strategy consultant in higher education. At PricewaterhouseCoopers and Cap Gemini Ernst & Young, she led initiatives with education and nonprofit organizations to address challenges ranging from business process inefficiency to strategic operational decisions. Through the course of her work, Karin developed a keen interest in the issues around college access and persistence for low-income, underrepresented students. She holds a master’s degree in education from the Harvard Graduate School of Education and was a Fellow at the MA Alliance for Early College.

Pam Haering

Executive Director

Pam is an experienced brand strategist and social entrepreneur who is passionate about education equity. Pam’s 30 years of non-profit board work and consulting have been focused on creating educational access for students worldwide and improving youth mental health outcomes. Before working in the non-profit space, Pam was building brands as a VP, Account Supervisor at J. Walter Thompson and BBDO advertising, the Vice President of International Ad Sales Marketing at Time Warner Turner, and a division creator and Senior Vice President at Viacom. Pam earned her BA from Dartmouth College, a master’s degree in education from the Harvard Graduate School of Education, and is a Fellow of Harvard’s Advanced Leadership Initiative (ALI) and the Harvard EdRedesign Lab.

Yefei Jin

Sr. Project Architect

Dr. Yefei Jin, Senior Project Architect. Yefei Jin has spent his career supporting mission-driven, nonprofit organizations, from start-ups to institutions of higher learning. Yefei and Pam met and recognized their shared passion for education equity while both attending graduate programs at Harvard. After completing his doctorate in Organizational Leadership from the Harvard Graduate School of Education, Yefei combined his technical experience and Change Management skills to lead teams across innovative, change-driven environments. He is now building transformative technology in the Education Sector.

Karin Beecher

Deputy Director

Karin comes to EdAccess after a career as an operational and strategy consultant in higher education. At PricewaterhouseCoopers and Cap Gemini Ernst & Young, she led initiatives with education and nonprofit organizations to address challenges ranging from business process inefficiency to strategic operational decisions. Through the course of her work, Karin developed a keen interest in the issues around college access and persistence for low-income, underrepresented students. She holds a master’s degree in education from the Harvard Graduate School of Education and was a Fellow at the MA Alliance for Early College.

Pam Haering

Executive Director

Pam is an experienced brand strategist and social entrepreneur who is passionate about education equity. Pam’s 30 years of non-profit board work and consulting have been focused on creating educational access for students worldwide and improving youth mental health outcomes. Before working in the non-profit space, Pam was building brands as a VP, Account Supervisor at J. Walter Thompson and BBDO advertising, the Vice President of International Ad Sales Marketing at Time Warner Turner, and a division creator and Senior Vice President at Viacom. Pam earned her BA from Dartmouth College, a master’s degree in education from the Harvard Graduate School of Education, and is a Fellow of Harvard’s Advanced Leadership Initiative (ALI) and the Harvard EdRedesign Lab.

Yefei Jin

Sr. Project Architect

Dr. Yefei Jin, Senior Project Architect. Yefei Jin has spent his career supporting mission-driven, nonprofit organizations, from start-ups to institutions of higher learning. Yefei and Pam met and recognized their shared passion for education equity while both attending graduate programs at Harvard. After completing his doctorate in Organizational Leadership from the Harvard Graduate School of Education, Yefei combined his technical experience and Change Management skills to lead teams across innovative, change-driven environments. He is now building transformative technology in the Education Sector.

Karin Beecher

Deputy Director

Karin comes to EdAccess after a career as an operational and strategy consultant in higher education. At PricewaterhouseCoopers and Cap Gemini Ernst & Young, she led initiatives with education and nonprofit organizations to address challenges ranging from business process inefficiency to strategic operational decisions. Through the course of her work, Karin developed a keen interest in the issues around college access and persistence for low-income, underrepresented students. She holds a master’s degree in education from the Harvard Graduate School of Education and was a Fellow at the MA Alliance for Early College.

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