Trusted Voices Cohort 1 — Program Terms
Last updated: May 20, 2026
These Program Terms govern participation in the Trusted Voices Cohort 1 program (“the Program”) offered by Homeschool Foundry. Please read them in full before applying. By submitting an application, you agree to these Terms.
1. The Program at a Glance
Trusted Voices is a paid review program. Selected participants spend 7 days writing honest reviews of homeschool curriculum they have personally used, and receive Amazon.com Gift Cards as compensation for each qualified review submitted.
This is not a sweepstakes, raffle, drawing, or contest. Every selected participant who submits a qualified review receives the stated compensation. There is no element of chance involved in compensation.
2. Sponsor
The Program is sponsored, administered, and paid for by:
Homeschool Foundry, Inc., 3910 Ridgewood Drive, Davenport, IA 52807
Email: info@homeschoolfoundry.com
No curriculum company has contributed to review payment pool.
(Hereafter, “Homeschool Foundry,” “we,” “us,” or “the Sponsor.”)
3. Eligibility
To participate, you must:
- Be a legal resident of the fifty (50) United States or the District of Columbia
- Be 18 years of age or older at the time of application
- Have personally homeschooled at least one (1) child for at least one (1) full school year
- Have first-hand experience using the curriculum you are willing to review
- Have a valid email address and access to Facebook (a Facebook account is required to participate in the Program’s private community group)
- Be willing to comply with the disclosure requirements described in Section 10
Employees, officers, directors, and contractors of Homeschool Foundry, and their immediate family members and household members, are not eligible to participate.
Employees, officers, directors, owners, and contractors of any homeschool curriculum publisher, vendor, or company whose products may be reviewed on the Homeschool Foundry platform are not eligible to participate.
Participation is void where prohibited or restricted by law.
4. Key Dates
| Stage | Date |
|---|---|
| Applications open | May 19, 2026 |
| Applications close | May 28, 2026, 11:59 PM Pacific Time |
| Selection notifications sent | On or about May 30, 2026 |
| Program runs | June 1 – June 7, 2026 |
| Gift cards issued to qualified participants | On or about June 12, 2026 |
All dates are subject to change. Material changes will be communicated to applicants and selected participants by email.
5. How to Apply
To apply, complete the application form at homeschoolfoundry.com/trustvoices. The application asks about your homeschool background, your children, the curriculum you have used, and your homeschool approach. There is no application fee. Applying does not guarantee selection.
6. Selection Process
Approximately one hundred (100) applicants will be selected for Cohort 1. Selection is made by Homeschool Foundry in its sole discretion, with the goal of building a cohort that reflects a diversity of homeschool philosophies, family situations, regions, curriculum experiences, and years of homeschooling.
Selection is not random. We review each application against the cohort composition we are trying to build. Applicants who are not selected may be placed on a priority list for future cohorts.
Selected applicants will be notified by email and will be asked to confirm participation. If a selected applicant does not confirm within forty-eight (48) hours, their spot may be offered to another applicant.
7. What Counts as a “Qualified Review”
To be eligible for compensation, each review must meet all of the following criteria:
- Honest and based on your personal experience using the curriculum with your own child(ren).
- Approximately 150 words or more.
- Include: the age and grade of the child when using the curriculum, how long you used it, what worked, what didn’t, who you think it’s right for, and a specific example from your experience.
- Submitted through the Homeschool Foundry platform during the Program period (June 1 – June 7, 2026).
- Original to you — written by you, not copied from another source or generated by AI without substantial original input and personal experience.
- For a curriculum, program, or resource you have personally used. No reviews of products you have not used.
- Compliant with the Homeschool Foundry community guidelines (no personal attacks on curriculum authors, no defamatory statements, no profanity, no disclosure of other families’ private information).
Homeschool Foundry will review each submission and determine whether it qualifies. Determinations are made in good faith and are final.
8. Compensation
Selected participants will receive a $10.00 USD Amazon.com Gift Card for each Qualified Review submitted during the Program period, up to a maximum of $100.00 USD in Amazon.com Gift Cards per participant (i.e., up to 10 Qualified Reviews).
There is no minimum number of reviews required to participate. There is no maximum number of reviews you may submit, but compensation is capped at 10 Qualified Reviews per participant.
Compensation is not conditioned on the content, sentiment, rating, or tone of any review. Positive, mixed, and negative reviews are compensated equally so long as they meet the Qualified Review criteria in Section 7. We will not pay more, less, or differently based on whether a review is favorable to any curriculum.
9. Payment Terms
Amazon.com Gift Cards earned through the Program will be sent by email to the email address you used to apply, on or about June 12, 2026.
You are responsible for keeping your email address current and for ensuring our emails reach your inbox. Gift cards reported as undelivered after a reasonable attempt may be forfeited.
Compensation is non-transferable. No substitutions or cash equivalents are offered.
Tax responsibility. You are responsible for any federal, state, or local taxes that may apply to compensation received through the Program. Based on current IRS thresholds for the 2026 tax year, Homeschool Foundry does not anticipate issuing Form 1099-NEC to any participant, as no participant will receive more than $100 in compensation. This is not tax advice; consult your own tax advisor with any questions.
10. FTC Compliance
Federal Trade Commission rules require that when a reviewer receives compensation or other incentives in exchange for a review, that connection must be clearly and conspicuously disclosed.
By participating in the Program, you authorize Homeschool Foundry to:
- Display a “Trusted Voice — Cohort 1” badge alongside each of your reviews on the Homeschool Foundry platform, identifying the review as one written during the Trusted Voices Program.
- Display accompanying disclosure language indicating that you received an Amazon.com Gift Card from Homeschool Foundry in connection with your participation in the Program.
You agree not to remove, obscure, or misrepresent these disclosures.
If you share your review(s) anywhere outside the Homeschool Foundry platform — for example on social media, in your own newsletter, or on another website — you agree to disclose your participation in the Program in a clear and conspicuous way (for example, using “#ad,” “#sponsored,” or plain language such as “I wrote this as part of Homeschool Foundry’s paid Trusted Voices program”).
11. Honest Reviews / No Sentiment Requirement
You are free — and encouraged — to write whatever you honestly think about each curriculum you review, including reviews that are critical or negative.
Homeschool Foundry will not:
- Require, request, or suggest that any review express a particular sentiment, rating, or conclusion
- Pay more for positive reviews than for negative reviews
- Remove, edit, or suppress a Qualified Review because of its sentiment, rating, or conclusion about any curriculum or publisher
- Refuse to pay for a review because it is unfavorable
You retain the right to edit or delete your own reviews on the Homeschool Foundry platform at any time, including after the Program ends. Editing or deleting a review after the Program does not require you to return any compensation already received.
12. Review Ownership and License
You retain ownership of the reviews you write. By submitting a review through the Program, you grant Homeschool Foundry a worldwide, non-exclusive, royalty-free, perpetual, irrevocable license to display, distribute, reproduce, and promote the review (including excerpts) on the Homeschool Foundry platform and in marketing materials, with attribution as you specified in your account profile (e.g., first name, initial, region, or anonymous).
This license survives the deletion of your review from the platform only to the extent necessary for Homeschool Foundry to display reviews already cached or republished before deletion; we will make commercially reasonable efforts to remove your reviews from active display upon deletion.
13. Right to Remove or Reject Submissions
Homeschool Foundry reserves the right, in its sole discretion, to:
- Decline to qualify a submission that does not meet the Qualified Review criteria in Section 7
- Remove a submission that violates these Terms or the Homeschool Foundry community guidelines
- Disqualify any participant who provides false information on their application, attempts to submit reviews for products they have not used, submits AI-generated reviews without personal experience, submits duplicate or substantially similar reviews across multiple curricula, or otherwise acts in bad faith
Disqualified participants forfeit any unpaid compensation. Homeschool Foundry’s good-faith determinations under this section are final.
14. Founding Status and Alumni Community
Selected participants who complete at least one Qualified Review will receive permanent “Trusted Voice — Founding Cohort” status on their Homeschool Foundry profile and access to the Trusted Voices Alumni community. Homeschool Foundry reserves the right to revoke Founding Status from any participant later found to have violated these Terms.
15. Privacy
Information collected through the application and Program is governed by the Homeschool Foundry Privacy Policy at homeschoolfoundry.com/privacy. We will not sell your personal information to third parties. We may use aggregated, de-identified data about the cohort for research, marketing, and program improvement.
The private Facebook group used for the Program is operated through Meta Platforms, Inc. and is subject to Facebook’s terms and privacy policy in addition to ours.
16. Amazon.com Disclaimer
Amazon.com is not a sponsor of, endorser of, or otherwise affiliated with the Trusted Voices Program. Amazon, Amazon.com, the Amazon.com logo, and Amazon.com Gift Cards are trademarks of Amazon.com, Inc. or its affiliates. Restrictions on the use of Amazon.com Gift Cards apply; see www.amazon.com/gc-legal.
17. No Publisher Influence
Homeschool Foundry has no financial relationship with any homeschool curriculum publisher whose products may be reviewed in the Program. We do not accept payment in exchange for review placement, ranking, sentiment, or removal. Owners, employees, and contractors of Homeschool Foundry do not own or work for any homeschool curriculum company.
18. Modification or Termination
Homeschool Foundry reserves the right to modify, suspend, or terminate the Program in whole or in part at any time, for any reason, including without limitation if the Program cannot be conducted as planned due to fraud, technical failures, or any other cause that affects the integrity of the Program. If the Program is terminated early, Homeschool Foundry will pay Qualified Reviews submitted before the termination according to Section 8.
Material changes to these Terms during the Program will be communicated to participants by email and posted on this page.
19. Limitation of Liability
To the maximum extent permitted by law, Homeschool Foundry and its officers, directors, employees, and contractors are not liable for any indirect, incidental, special, consequential, or punitive damages arising out of or related to your participation in the Program. Our total liability to any participant under these Terms will not exceed the total compensation that participant earned through the Program.
20. Governing Law and Disputes
These Terms are governed by the laws of the State of Delaware, without regard to its conflict of laws principles. Any dispute arising out of or related to the Program or these Terms will be resolved exclusively in the state or federal courts located in Delaware, and participants consent to the personal jurisdiction of those courts.
21. Contact
Questions about these Terms or the Program may be sent to info@homeschoolfoundry.com.
Trusted Voices Cohort 1 is a paid review program operated by Homeschool Foundry. Participants receive Amazon.com Gift Cards as compensation for honest, qualifying reviews. Compensation is not conditioned on review sentiment.