# Yes. Every Kid Foundation Yes. Every Kid is the [[Koch Network]]'s dedicated education advocacy vehicle, founded in 2019 within the [[Stand Together]] / Charles Koch Institute family of organizations. Its primary function is "family narratives" — sourcing, training, and amplifying parents who tell stories about wanting educational choice and being unable to access it. This messaging operation complements [[Americans for Prosperity]]'s door-knocking and ad-spending capacity and the [[American Federation for Children]]'s direct lobbying and campaign spending. ## The Narrative Strategy Yes. Every Kid's distinctive contribution to the school-choice coalition is its focus on the demand side — finding and elevating the voices of families who want alternatives to their assigned public school. The organization recruits parent ambassadors, trains them in public speaking and media engagement, and deploys them at legislative hearings, press conferences, and in digital advertising campaigns. This strategy addresses the school-choice movement's longstanding vulnerability: that its loudest advocates are libertarian ideologues and wealthy donors, while the families who would actually use choice programs are often low-income and politically disengaged. Yes. Every Kid provides the human faces the movement needs. ## Koch Network Integration Yes. Every Kid is almost entirely Koch-funded — approximately 92% of its revenue comes through the Stand Together network. It operates as a specialized appendage of the Koch political infrastructure, drawing on the same donor base, data systems, and field-organizing capacity as AFP. The organization is part of the Koch network's broader pivot in the late 2010s from Tea Party fiscal conservatism toward issue verticals (education, criminal justice reform, occupational licensing) where Koch goals overlap with bipartisan or progressive rhetoric — though school choice remains the issue closest to traditional Koch ideology, since it applies market-competition logic to a public service. ## Legislative Impact Yes. Every Kid claims involvement in school-choice legislative wins in 13 states during the 2024–2025 legislative cycle, primarily through parent-testimony mobilization and digital advocacy campaigns supporting universal ESA and voucher bills. The organization's parent ambassadors have testified before legislative committees in Arizona, Florida, Iowa, Indiana, and other states where universal or near-universal choice programs were enacted. ## Position in the Coalition Yes. Every Kid is one of several overlapping Koch-network education entities. Its role is specifically messaging and narrative, not research ([[EdChoice]]), not litigation ([[Institute for Justice]]), not lobbying ([[American Federation for Children]]), and not field operations ([[Americans for Prosperity]]). The division of labor reflects the Koch network's characteristic approach to political infrastructure: specialized organizations with distinct functions coordinated through shared funding and strategy. ## See Also - [[Koch Network]] — Parent organization - [[Americans for Prosperity]] — Koch field-operations arm - [[American Federation for Children]] — The lobbying and campaign-spending arm - [[School Choice Ecosystem]] — The movement - [[School Choice]] — The concept