We asked you to welcome students back-to-school, by giving to classrooms and cheering them on with your favorite back-to-school memories. We were blown away by your funny, adorable and inspiring memories, and we posted one each day throughout September on our homepage. Our staff’s top ten pick for back-to-school memories…
Kathleen from Missouri …
We’re thrilled to announce that Southern California teachers will be the recipients of proceeds from this year’s Dancescape event on November 8th in Beverly Hills at the Aqua Restaurant & Lounge. This all-night event will feature more than 20 individual dance performances, with all proceeds donated to dance, art, and music projects posted on DonorsChoose.org.…
On September 17th a $25,000 grant from the Monmouth County Community Foundation was presented to DonorsChoose.org at an event held at the Midtown Community Elementary School in Neptune, NJ, which included the Superintendent of Neptune Schools, Mr. David Mooij. The Monmouth County Community Foundation “Double Your Impact” campaign will be used to half fund teacher-submitted proposals…
Dear DonorsChoose.org TEACHERS,
Mustaches for Kids is an annual Mustache-growing fundraiser held in cities across the country. Similar to a charity walkathon, for which participants collect donations per mile, “Growers” raise pledges for every day they grow Mustaches.
Last year, both New York, NY and Charlotte, NC chapters of Mustaches for Kids chose to give their…
DonorsChoose.org is thrilled to have been selected as one of the Motorola Foundation’s 2008 Innovation Generation grantees! This generous grant of $100,000 will be used to match contributions dollar for dollar to K-12 math and science projects posted on our website by teachers in 5 states.
The Motorola Foundation’s Innovation Generation grant program seeks to…
DonorsChoose.org and the Ann Taylor LOFT Loves Teachers program will be working together this back to school season! Through an ANN Cares Initiative, LOFT Loves Teachers aims to help classrooms across America, and they are doing so by supporting their teacher’s projects on DonorsChoose.org. The LOFT Loves Teachers program will fund 50% of qualifying classroom…
Dear Winston-Salem, NC teachers,
The Winston-Salem Chamber of Commerce will be partnering with DonorsChoose.org this fall to implement Grants for Great Ideas, its creative grants program for certified classroom teachers throughout Winston-Salem and Forsyth County schools.
Grants will be selected from Science, Technology, and/or Math–focused proposals submitted by October 15, 2008 on the DonorsChoose.org website.…
Greetings lovers of facial hair and charity,
Mustaches for Kids, America’s favorite mustache-based charity organization, is back for another year of questionable grooming. The 2008 Growing Season kicks off on Shaving Day (Thursday, November 13th) and concludes mid-December.
Mustaches for Kids is a volunteer-run organization founded way back in 1999 to celebrate the joys…
TechCrunch got their hands on a physical copy of the coveted Google Chrome comic book and is generously auctioning it off to raise funds for classroom projects on DonorsChoose.org.
Right now the bidding looks like it’s up to $1,600…wow!
On behalf of the public school teachers and students who get much-needed resources via DonorsChoose.org, we…
replyforall.com and DonorsChoose.org are partnering to help drive donations and awareness for educational resources. replyforall is a new, meaningful online product to support a cause of your choice using your email signature. With each email message sent, replyforall showcases the cause you support and the brand advertiser sponsoring the signature. replyforall is featuring DonorsChoose.org under…
Where you grow up shouldn’t determine the quality of the education you receive. That’s why over 2,000 voters nominated “Help 100,000 children thrive in the classroom” to make the top 25 world-changing ideas in the American Express Members Project.
If our project gets enough votes before September 29th, we will move on to the final…
Friends,
If you’re attending the Web 2.0 Expo in NYC next week, stop by our booth in the Non-Profit Pavilion and say Hi!
We’re grateful to the Web 2.0 Expo NY folks for generously donating this booth space to us and looking forward to telling conference attendees more about DonorsChoose.org.
We’ll have staff at the…