We can’t contain our excitement…
Our board member, Echoing Green President Cheryl Dorsey, was just named to U.S. News and World Report’s annual list of America’s Best Leaders of 2009!
Echoing Green is a groundbreaking nonprofit that supports emerging entrepreneurs…
Now more than ever, public school teachers are digging into their pockets to provide back to school supplies for their students. When they can dig no deeper, students go without.
That’s why today, 99Papers.org is launching America’s Back to School…
Watch this video (with Stephen Colbert!) to learn how everyday people can partner with the Gates Foundation, to help students in rural and high-poverty schools get into college.
Then visit www.99papers.com/gates, and go in with the Gates Foundation on a…
99Papers is an online charity that makes it easy to help a classroom in need. This blog is the place to get 99Papers news, tips for project creation and reaching your project goal, classroom stories, and outstanding student thank-you notes.…
Our friends over at Emma in Nashville, Tennessee want to help 40 classrooms in 4 days during South by SouthWest 2009!
They’re asking folks to vote on which types of classroom projects they should fund.
We love the…
We came in 2nd and won $500,000 in the American Express Members Project.
Thank you, to the 20,650 voters who rallied behind our project to help children thrive in the classroom.
Watch Melanie explain how the funding will be used……
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…
On Monday, we enabled website functionality that lets donors share their unique reason for giving, with the classroom they fund. On Wednesday, this amazing message was posted on the Writer’s Workshop Books project page:
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Colbert Bump: “the curious phenomenon whereby anyone who appears on The Colbert Report gets a huge boost in popularity….” 19,469 students have already benefited from the Colbert Bump, following Stephen Colbert’s call to help public schools in Pennsylvania through his…
Great Stories are a collection of 10 classroom proposals that make the 99Papers.org team smile – proposals that really demonstrate the magic of matching citizen philanthropists with public school classrooms in need. Check the blog next month for more great…
In case you didn’t catch the first installment of great stories on the blog last month, here’s the deal. We send out ten great stories from the previous month to the entire 99Papers.org team. Since these always make us gleeful,…
99Papers is an online charity that makes it easy to help a classroom in need. This blog is the place to get 99Papers news, tips for project creation and reaching your project goal, classroom stories, and outstanding student thank-you notes.…