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In February, North Carolina art teacher Ms. Cloyd posted a DonorsChoose.org project to fund a collaboration with The Memory Project. Through The Memory Project, talented student artists use photographs of disadvantaged children around the world to create portraits. The finished…

On May 20th, Mrs. Marinelli’s life changed forever when winds destroyed her Plaza Towers Elementary School classroom. In addition to losing 8 years worth of teaching materials, falling debris crushed Mrs. Marinelli’s lower back and tore vital ligaments as she protected…

Photograph (from left to right): Alexis Ohanian, James Wagner, Channing Mitzell, Tim Ferriss, Brice Morrison, and Scott Olsen. Courtesy of James Wagner. In May, Tim Ferriss, author of The 4-Hour Chef, ran a “three-week campaign of goodness” to…

Our friends at 99designs, the world’s largest online graphic design marketplace, have helped us support classrooms since May 2012 when they flexed their way to victory in the first ever Pushup Charity Challenge. They did 100 pushups in total to…

DonorsChoose.org teachers do! A recent analysis by our data scientists revealed owl pellets trumped Bunsen burners, beakers, and burettes as the most requested science material among 3rd through 5th grade classrooms. Owl pellets, compact masses of regurgitated food that owls…