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How gifts reach schools, how we verify students and donors, and what we are learning while funding tuition.

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Student Emergency Funds Vs. Loans: Which Keeps Enrollment Intact

Learn how a student emergency fund and direct tuition aid can help cover sudden costs, reduce loan reliance, and keep college enrollment on track

October 13, 2026 · Sankha Nagchoudhury · 5 min read

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What If Your Best Investment Is a Boring Business

Explore why a small business acquisition can offer steady returns, practical control, and lasting impact while supporting your financial goals.

September 22, 2026 · 7 min read

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Talent Is Everywhere, but Opportunity Should Be Too

Discover how direct tuition support and scholarships for students in need help promising learners stay in school and pursue a brighter future.

September 22, 2026 · 6 min read

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Your Company Gives to Charity. Can You Show the Impact?

Discover how corporate scholarship sponsorship creates measurable educational outcomes through verified tuition payments, transparent records, and success.

September 14, 2026 · 6 min read

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You Make Good Money, so Why Don’t You Feel Wealthy?

Learn practical ways to start turning income into wealth through mindful spending, saving, investing, and tax-smart education giving options.

September 14, 2026 · 6 min read

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How Building Your Wealth Can Help Others Build Their Future

Discover how financial literacy nonprofits turn smart money habits into lasting support that helps students stay enrolled and build brighter futures.

September 14, 2026 · 6 min read

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He rang the bell and saved 1,643 children. Now they need school.

Principal Rajendra Dawadi evacuated every child from Tribhuvan Trishuli Secondary School minutes before Nepal's floods swept it away. Many of those children are now orphaned — and Hariom Helps is partnering with an orphanage in Nepal to put them back in class.

September 8, 2026 · 4 min read

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Named Best Scholarship Nonprofit in the United States of 2026 — and what happens next

Best of Best Review named Hariom Helps Foundation the Best Scholarship Nonprofit in the United States of 2026. Here is what the recognition means, where donations go, and what we are building for students this year.

September 7, 2026 · 4 min read

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A Novice's Guide to Wealth named Best Wealth-Building Book in the United States of 2026

Evergreen Awards has named A Novice's Guide to Wealth the Best Wealth-Building Book in the United States of 2026 — and every copy sold still funds tuition for a verified student.

September 5, 2026 · 3 min read

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The Wealth Engine wins Best Purpose-Driven Financial Education Book of 2026

BizWeekly has named The Wealth Engine the Best Purpose-Driven Financial Education Book in the United States of 2026.

September 4, 2026 · 3 min read

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When a scholarship isn't the right tool: FundMyDreams.org

Not every student need fits a tuition scholarship. FundMyDreams.org exists for the costs that fall outside it — and we point students there openly.

September 3, 2026 · 3 min read

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Teen wellbeing belongs next to scholarships: EmotionalTeen.com

EmotionalTeen.com, an initiative by Anushka Nagchoudhury, is the wellbeing half of what students actually need alongside tuition.

September 2, 2026 · 6 min read

Transparency

How your donation actually reaches a school

From checkout to the bursar's office — a step-by-step look at how Hariom Helps Foundation moves a dollar from a donor to a student's tuition account.

August 20, 2026 · 4 min read

Trust & Safety

Inside our student and donor verification process

Enrollment proof, government ID, income documentation, and human review — why we verify both sides of every gift.

August 6, 2026 · 5 min read

Scholarships

Why we built the Hariom Impact Scholarship Challenge

A skill-based scholarship for grades 9-12 that rewards students who have already started solving a problem in their community.

July 18, 2026 · 3 min read

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Every book sold funds a student

The foundation was seeded with book royalties. Here is how buying a copy still turns into tuition.

June 30, 2026 · 2 min read