Participate in maintaining educational diversity

Educations Plurielles: an endowment fund
dedicated to educational diversity

The Educations Plurielles fund is driven by men and women convinced that everyone should be able to receive an education adapted to their learning style.

Acting for educational diversity, without distinction between alternative pedagogies, the Educations Plurielles fund supports the leaders of any educational project that places the human being and, more broadly, all living things at its center.

In concrete terms, the fund promotes social diversity through solidarity funds, supports the financing of projects of general interest thanks to the tax advantages enjoyed by patrons, and provides resources including legal expertise for the creation of structures. Finally, it documents projects and connects education professionals to promote the sharing of experiences and collective intelligence.

Support and encourage initiatives and projects of an educational nature

An education for all, adapted to each individual.

The mission of the Educations Plurielles Fund is: “to support and encourage initiatives and projects of an educational nature that place human values at the center of their action and intend to contribute to the full development of everyone's potential. It strives to encourage and preserve the richness of educational diversity.” (article 2 - object of the Articles of Association of the Educations Plurielles Fund)

There is no freedom without diversity

Promoting educational diversity

There is no educational act except in and for freedom.
Education, which must allow the full development of everyone's potential, can only be plural. Thus, just as biodiversity is a good in itself necessary for the emergence and maintenance of a living nature, educational diversity is a richness that demands to be preserved and developed for its own sake.
The fund's primary mission is to support, promote and cultivate all the impulses that make possible the creative, innovative and civic dimension of education. The fund intends to contribute to placing the educational issue at the center of everyone's concerns. Its activity is resolutely placed under the sign of pedagogical renewal, innovation, education towards freedom and the emancipation of the individual.

Our common point... difference

Projects to support

The fund's support can take various forms: direct or indirect financial aid (through assistance with fundraising), provision of premises, sharing of networks, expertise, etc.

Solidarity Funds

The objective of the solidarity funds is to reduce the economic barrier that prevents some families from being fully free in their choice of education for their children. Thus, the Educations Plurielles fund collects donations to provide scholarships to families in need. 

We aspire to the respect of Article 26, paragraph 3 of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, which specifies:

« Parents have priority right to choose the kind of education that shall be given to their children ».

The Team

Virginie Macé

President
Graduate in educational sciences. Teacher in a Waldorf school, under contract with the French Ministry of Education.

Laure Fourteau-Lemarchand

Secretary
Formerly a lawyer in New York and Paris, specializing in business and environmental law, she switched to strategic consulting in sustainable development in 2009. For several years, she has been a member of the Board of Directors of organizations dedicated to education: the Lemarchand Foundation, the Centre Actif Bilingue in Fontainebleau.

Dominique Schalck

Treasurer
Consultant in the creation and development of Social and Solidarity Economy structures (associations, foundations, cooperatives, etc.), co-founder of Scic Habitats Solidaires, Coopérative Oasis, and Fonds Fraternité pour Demain.

Jeanne Guillaume

Administrator / Project Manager
Trained in international law and international relations, trained in Montessori pedagogy, former educator for 3-6 year-olds, journalist, committed to the dissemination of pedagogies respectful of everyone through several associations and media, including Public Montessori and Guide-Montessori.

Sandrine Desuché

Administrator
Trained in linguistics and communications, she began working in the corporate world as a communications officer before changing careers to become a school teacher.

Our actions

Fundraising allocated to scholarships

Solidarity Fund

The school enters into a partnership with the fund to establish a solidarity fund that collects donations allocated as scholarships to families in financial difficulty.

Assistance with fundraising for projects

Crowdfunding

The fund, via its website and newsletter, can also help you collect the donations necessary to finance your project.

Guidance for establishing structures

Advisory services

Support on the appropriate legal structure and advice on the various stages of the project

Our Patrons

Gérard and Béatrice Barras

Both Knights of the National Order of Merit and Knights of Agricultural Merit, developers of initiatives in popular education and the social and solidarity economy in rural and sensitive urban areas, co-founders of the Viel Audon youth project, the Ardelaine SCOP, and the REPAS network, authors of two books on their experience in its collection « Pratiques utopiques » [Utopian Practices].

Anne Ghesquière

Collection Director at Eyrolles & Marabout, founder of FemininBio.com magazine, and author of books on natural well-being, she also co-organizes the "Changing the World" conferences in Paris.

Perrine and Charles Hervé-Gruyer

Perrine gave up a promising career to pursue what truly resonated with her. Charles's work in environmental education has been recognized with awards such as the Palmes académiques and the UN's Global 500 Award. Together, they created the Ferme du Bec Hellouin, which houses a permaculture school.

Antoine Lemarchand

Chairman and CEO of Nature et Découvertes since 2011, Chairman of the eponymous Foundation, Vice-Chairman of Entreprise et Progrès since 2014, sponsor of the Printemps de l'Éducation since 2012, he is also a director of the Lemarchand Foundation for balance between people and the Earth.

Edgar Morin

Philosopher, sociologist, and anthropologist, author of numerous works. He defines his way of thinking as « constructivist », specifying: « that is to say, I speak of the collaboration of the external world and our spirit to construct reality ».

Claire Nouvian

Former journalist, producer, and director of animal and scientific documentaries. In 2004, she founded the Bloom association to combat the exploitation of the oceans, of which she is the director. She is the author of the book Abysses and curator of the exhibition of the same name.

Caroline Sost

Founding Director of Living School (an innovative eco-citizen school), former human resources manager in charge of training in an international group. A graduate of ESCP and the Master's program for the Development of Ethical Leadership, with a Master's degree in Education Sciences. President of the Savoir-être & éducation association.

Antonella Verdiani

Doctor of Education Sciences, formerly responsible for education issues at UNESCO, consultant and trainer, initiator of the Alliance Printemps de l'Éducation. Author of « Éduquer à la joie. Ces écoles qui rendent les enfants heureux » [Educating for Joy: Schools that Make Children Happy] ed. Actes Sud.

Our partners

The Public-Montessori association

Groups of school teachers involved in National Education for a caring school that respects the needs of the child, whose goal is to help implement Montessori pedagogy within National Education.

Steiner-Waldorf Pedagogy Federation

Brings together 22 schools with 2,500 students and 3 training institutes in France and is part of a global network of more than 1,000 schools and 2,000 kindergartens with 250,000 students worldwide.

Printemps de l’Éducation (Springtime of Education)

A citizen movement that brings together, encourages, and supports various stakeholders in educational renewal, such as Colibris (Pierre Rabhi), Dialogues en Humanité, Récit, Graine d’Écoles, Association Montessori de France, Les Enfants d’abord, École de la croisée des chemins, Écoles Steiner-Waldorf, l’École à la Ferme, Déclic, École Nature et Savoirs, etc.

The permaculture school of Bec Hellouin

An eco-center for training built in the heart of an organic farm, a meeting and exchange place for researchers, farmers, and students from France and elsewhere, who are eager to invent an agriculture capable of feeding humanity while healing the planet.

The Lemarchand Foundation

Dedicated to the balance between Humankind and the Earth, its primary objective is to rebalance the relationship between Humankind and the Earth by supporting community-based projects.

The Nature et Découvertes Foundation

Works for the preservation of biodiversity and places citizens and children at the heart of the supported projects (participatory science and active learning initiatives in contact with nature).

The Fraternité pour Demain Fund

A donation collection platform for general interest associations and the protection of common or shared property.

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