Over the past few months, our team has been checking in with teachers, staying up-to-date with what school looks like this year across the country. With three-quarters of teachers telling us they’ll be facing either online-only learning or a blend…
DonorsChoose is excited to welcome MahoganyBooks as our newest vendor!
MahoganyBooks is a family-owned, independent bookstore that believes in the power of reading and social entrepreneurship. Founded in 2007 as an online-only bookstore, MahoganyBooks is now an award-winning retailer specializing…
It’s a truth universally acknowledged that every teacher is different. But whether an educator is soft-spoken or boisterous, a subject-area expert or a classroom management wizard, acerbically kind or kindly acerbic, they all share a few things in common.
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School librarians are experts in the magic of helping children fall in love with books. Each book is an opportunity to connect countless students with windows into the experiences of others, tools to be informed citizens, and the keys to…
At DonorsChoose, we strive to have our organization be as diverse as the students and teachers we serve. Our team is encouraged to engage in affinity groups that help celebrate our differences and build a platform for discussion and learning. …
Buying educational gifts and toys for kids and teens can be tricky, especially if you’re looking for something that they’ll not only love, but learn from, too. We took a look at the trending resources DonorsChoose teachers have been requesting…
It’s an exciting new day at DonorsChoose! We just released our new visual identity, with a fresh take on everything from our logo and font to our color palette and illustration style.
We’ve all been fans of the orange chair…
At DonorsChoose.org, we rave over books adapted to television, we’ve made holiday book exchanges a tradition, and we’ve filled our library with staff picks and the books teachers need most. The secret’s out! We’re book nerds.
Most recently,…
When a teacher has a project fully funded on DonorsChoose.org, our team springs into action to fulfill these projects. Unique among crowdfunding platforms, the DonorsChoose.org team purchases and ships resources directly to classrooms and works with teachers to coordinate field…
When DonorsChoose.org founder Charles Best was teaching history in the Bronx in 2000, he would spend his lunches with fellow teachers daydreaming about the projects their students would do, the field trips they would go on, the books they would…
At DonorsChoose, teachers request the tools and experiences their students need most, and donors support the classroom requests that inspire them. Since our founding by a public school teacher in 2000, teachers at 4 in 5…
Guest bloggers Pranav Badami, Lorena De La Parra Landa, Elya Pardes, Lex Spirtes, and Michael Zhang are Data Scientists at CKM Advisors, and they recently wrapped up a project helping our team discover new trends in what teachers across the country…