Ecostamps Report Cards are a simple solution to two problems, one a necessity and the other a limitation.

Feedback is essential to the educational process. Apart from persistence, few things are as important to a writer's development.

Providing it, especially on the part of editors, is a limitation, specifically, finding the time to provide constructive feedback on, say, a couple thousand submissions.

Ecostamps Report Cards successfully tackle both of these issues by enabling editors, with no more than a few clicks of a button, to provide a substantive evaluation of a submission.

Absolute grades are given on a number of standard or editor-defined criteria. These grades are also reported relative to the grade distribution of all other submissions in the category.

Report Cards also include a number of other customizable tools to facilitate the efficient communication of feedback to authors.

While efficiency and ease-of-use are essential, we recognize that incentives are also important. That's why we made Report Cards a prerequisite for editors to qualify to earn $1 per submission for their organizations.

Quid pro quo. Virtuous circle. Win-win. Reciprocal altruism.

Call it whatever you like. Ecostamps enables editors and writers to work together to achieve their mutual goal of creating, publishing, and perpetuating literature for this generation and the next.