"[1] On its campus in Surkhet, BlinkNow's Kopila Valley School provides tuition-free education from preschool to 12th grade for more than 400 students from under-resourced backgrounds and employs more than 100 teachers and support staff.
"[3] The campus features rammed earth walls that are nearly half a meter thick[4] in addition to multiple solar power generation and rainwater collection and recycling systems.
[3] In 2019, BlinkNow was named a finalist for the Zayed Sustainability Prize in the Global High Schools category.
[5] BlinkNow received widespread attention after its founder, Maggie Doyne, was selected as CNN Hero of the Year in 2015.
In 2016, author Elizabeth Gilbert shared a video of herself singing a karaoke version of Bonnie Tyler's “Total Eclipse of the Heart” to raise money for the organization after learning Doyne was in part inspired by her memoir Eat, Pray, Love.