The following page provides answers to the most frequently asked questions about EDC. If you need additional assistance please contact us.
General Information
- What is EDC?
- Where is EDC located? In what countries does EDC work?
- Does EDC provide funding?
- What employment opportunities are available at EDC? Does EDC offer internships?
- Can I submit an article or a link for inclusion on the EDC Web site?
Contacts
- How do I contact an EDC employee?
- I’m a journalist and wish to contact an EDC expert or do a story on an EDC project, who should I contact?
- I wish to reproduce materials developed by EDC, who do I contact for rights and permissions issues?
- I encountered a broken link on the EDC Web site, who should I contact?
EDC Products and Services
- How do I sign up for publications like EDC Update or the EDC Online Report?
- How do I find out about a listing in EDC’s Publication Catalog or an order I placed?
- How do I obtain a copy of an old EDC curriculum such as Man: A Course of Study (MACOS), Elementary Science Study (ESS), or From Subject to Citizen.
- What is EDC?
- Education Development Center, Inc., is a global nonprofit organization that designs, delivers, and evaluates innovative programs to address some of the world’s most urgent challenges in education, health, and economic development. For a quick overview of our organization, read the EDC Fact Sheet. More extensive information can be found in the About EDC section of the Web site.
- Where is EDC located? In what countries does EDC work?
- Our main office is in Waltham, Massachusetts with corporate offices in New York and Washington, D.C. EDC has numerous field offices around the world. For more information, visit the Contact Us/Offices page. Visit the International section of our Web site for more information.
- Does EDC provide funding?
- No. EDC is not a funding organization. We receive grants and contracts from federal agencies and private foundations to carry out specific projects. For more information, explore About EDC.
- What employment opportunities are available at EDC? Does EDC offer internships?
- Please visit our Job Opportunities page to see our current openings, including internships.
- Can I submit an article or a link for inclusion on the EDC Web site?
- The EDC Web site is an organizational Web site, informing the public about EDC’s work and providing links to EDC’s family of project Web sites. We do not accept articles for publication on the EDC Web site, nor do we publish a list of links to other organizations’ Web sites. However, many of our project Web sites feature links to other Web sites and organizations that are related to their content area. For more information, explore EDC project Web sites.
- How do I contact an EDC employee?
- Please visit the employee look-up page to find the e-mail address of any EDC employee. In general, e-mail addresses are first initial and last name @edc.org (for example, Jane Doe would be jdoe@edc.org). You can also call EDC’s switchboard at 617-969-7100 to be directed to an employee.
- I’m a journalist and wish to contact an EDC expert or do a story on an EDC project, who should I contact?
- All media-related questions should be directed to Alison Cohen, EDC’s Senior Manager for Media Relations [acohen@edc.org, 617.618.2109. You can also sign up for notifications of press releases and other EDC news.
- I wish to reproduce materials developed by EDC, who do I contact for rights and permissions issues?
- Please contact William Hulsey, EDC general counsel.
- I encountered a broken link on the EDC Web site; who should I contact?
- For the domains, “main.edc.org” and “secure.edc.org,” send an e-mail message including the link and information about where the link is supposed to go to comment@edc.org. For all other EDC Web sites use the contact info of the Webmaster that is included on the site. If you cannot locate this information, send your inquiry to the e-mail address above and your message will be passed on to the appropriate person.
- How do I sign up for publications like EDC Update or the EDC Online Report?
- To join the mailing list for EDC Update, please send your name and mailing address to comment@edc.org. You can also send this information by mail to:
- EDC
c/o: Office of Communications
43 Foundry Avenue
Waltham, MA 02453-8313 To sign up for the EDC Online Report, use our online subscription form.
- How do I find about a listing in EDC’s Publication Catalog or an order I placed?
- Each listing in EDC’s Publication Catalog has the contact information of a staff member who worked on the item and can answer any questions you have about it. For questions regarding orders, please contact customerservice@edc.org or 1-800-225-4276 x2215
- How do I obtain a copy of an old EDC curriculum such as Man: A Course of Study (MACOS), Elementary Science Study (ESS), or From Subject to Citizen?
- Unfortunately, these materials are out of print and not available for purchase.