Germinare Foundation

A boy, an opportunity

We are an Argentine civil society organization founded in 2001 that promotes upward social mobility in disadvantaged sectors. Our mission is to provide children from low socioeconomic backgrounds, who are willing to make the effort to improve themselves, and their parents and/or responsible adults, the opportunity to progress through education, giving them access to a better long-term academic formation, thus enriching their personality and positively changing their environment and future.

We work in the areas of Federal Capital, Pilar, Tigre, Campana and Zárate.

Our Values

Effort

Social inclusion

Solidarity

Trust

Freedom

Responsibility

Commitment

Effort

Solidarity

Freedom

Commitment

Social inclusion

Trust

Responsibility

Effort

Freedom

Social inclusion

Responsibility

Solidarity

Commitment

Trust

Why do we do it

In Argentina, social origin limits access to educational opportunities and conditions the school trajectories and future of many children.

Only 10 out of every 100 students who started primary school in 2013 managed to reach the end of secondary school in 2024 on time.*

At Germinare, we believe that by combining quality education sustained over time, close support, and networks of opportunities, a virtuous circle is activated that makes social mobility possible.

*According to the School Results Index of Argentinians for Education

How do we do it?

We create programs that offer, to children and their families, concrete responses to the following problems of their context of origin:

socioeconomic inequality,
equity in access and quality of education,
low academic performance,
difficulties in the transition between educational levels and connections with the labor market.

Thus providing them with a process of change: in the short term, we facilitate the completion of secondary education; and in the long term, we guide and offer new educational and job opportunities so they can enter adulthood with the freedom to choose their future.

We create programs that offer, to children and their families, concrete responses to the following issues in their context of origin:

socioeconomic inequality,
equity in access to and quality of education,
low academic performance,
difficulties in the transition between educational levels and connection with the labor market.

Thus providing them with a process of change: in the short term, we facilitate the completion of secondary education; and, in the long term, we guide and offer new educational and job opportunities so that they can enter the adult world with the freedom to choose their future.

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The impact on Camila

Your story of overcoming challenges is a reflection, like that of many other young people, of the results we hope to achieve through our educational programs.

At the age of 11, he joined the Agents of Change Program in 2013.

She was educated at the Río de la Plata College and graduated from the Agents of Change Program in 2018.

Today he studies Bioengineering at ITBA and is a member of Red Alumni

The beginning of a path of opportunities

In 1999, Constanza Oxenford was working on short-term educational programs in vulnerable contexts. There she was approached by children who, at the end of those experiences, asked, “And now how do we continue?”. This concern marked a turning point. Convinced that only sustained educational support could change real trajectories, she began the search for a different model.

During her training in the United States, Constanza learned about the organization Prep for Prep, whose long-term methodology deeply inspired her. Upon returning to Argentina, she adapted that model to the local context and, along with Solange Coquet, founded Germinare in 2001, with the aim of supporting children and young people throughout their entire educational journey and opening real opportunities for social mobility.

About Constanza Oxenford

Germinate in time

2001
Launch of the Program
“Agents of Change” in Campana and Pilar.
2003
First layer of boys starts the Annual Leveling stage.
Incorporation of San Fernando as a new area.
2004
First scholarship recipients enter the secondary level in partner schools.
2005
Consolidation of work with families as part of the educational model.
2007
Incorporation of Zárate as a new area.
2009
Graduation of the first batch of "Agents of Change".
Launch of the “Alumni Network” Program to support graduates.
2010
First agreements with Universities.
Incorporation of Capital Federal as a new area.
2011
First Evaluation of results with Torcuato Di Tella University.
2014
First graduate university of the "Red Alumni" Program.
2016
Incorporation of Tigre as a new zone.
2022
Launch of the book
“The Firsts”.
2025
Evaluation of Results of the "Agents of Change" Program managed by the CIS San Andrés University.