School districts accross the country are struggling to stay afloat and resist the pressures of a weak economy. The resources available to schools are almost always insufficient for the average teacher to accomplish all that they need in the classroom. What do teachers do instead? They turn to their own pockets. Often times they also turn to the physical communtiy for support. Do I hear a bake sale? When are we having the next silent auction? However, many times the immediate community is not sufficient or does not have the wherewithal to donate money to their community schools.
Donors Choose
Donors Choose
Floyd Brooks
DonorsChoose.org allows public school teachers to broadcast their need to the entire world via the web and receive support via crowd-funding from potential donors to raise money. Crowd-funding, as the name suggests, basically means the funding of a project by multiple individuals or organizations, a crowd. DonorsChoose is a not-for-profit, so your donated funds are tax deductible.
DonorsChoose.org allows public school teachers to broadcast their need to the entire world via the web and receive support via crowd-funding from potential donors to raise money. Crowd-funding, as the name suggests, basically means the funding of a project by multiple individuals or organizations, a crowd. DonorsChoose is a not-for-profit, so your donated funds are tax deductible.
Teachers simply go to the website and post their projects. Once the project has been posted and verified by the DonorsChoose staff, you can help your project be successful by spreading the word about about your project.
DonorsChoose makes it very easy for any individual to support public school teachers anywhere across the country to help their students learn and be successful.
How do you Donoate to a Cause?
Donors can easily contribute to a cause by browsing and selecting from the wide array of projects that have been posted by teachers looking for help for their students' education. See the diagram below.
When you post your donation you will actually receive confirmation of your hard earned money being put to use by the teacher and the students via their photos and thank you notes.
As a teacher I have not used DonorsChoose myself but I know teachers who have posted successful projects. A great feature that I think DonorsChoose has is that it allows for a multiplicity of ways to donate.
Visit DonorsChoose and support a local teacher, or post your projects and get the support that you need to make your teaching a success.
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