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Our guest today is Maurya Couvares, CEO of ScriptEd, a nonprofit that provides free coding instruction to students in under-resourced schools. Growing ScriptEd from 12 students in its first year to over 800 in year five is the wonderful success story Maurya shares with us. A major element of ScriptEd’s phenomenal growth is robust data collection combined with the savvy use of that data in fundraising efforts.   Links: ScriptEd’s site: https://scripted.org/ ScriptEd’s Twitter: https://twitter.com/ScriptEdOrg?lang=en ScriptEd’s annual reports: https://scripted.org/annual-reports/ Maurya’s Twitter: https://twitter.com/MauryaCouvares?lang=en Maurya’s LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/mauryac/   *****Timestamped Highlights***** (3:14) Maurya’s expectations for ScriptEd’s Growth (4:58) What ScriptEd does (7:12) Three Ps: Passion, Partnerships, Program (9:29) Mo levels, mo expenses (10:19) Do the hustle! How Maurya approached funders and corporations for money (12:34) Deep thinking, low-cost (13:30) Maurya shares how growth impacted her board   (16:45) The theory of change and the metrics pyramid (18:49) Talk about growth - less than 1% to 73%! (19:47) Translate impact into $$$ - speak the language of the funders (22:30) Automation of data collection  (23:22) About ScriptEd’s custom Salesforce (25:16) The Road Ahead: Maurya shares what’s next for ScriptEd (27:00) 400%?!? (31:03) Dolph declines a dip in the Hudson River