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DonorsChoose.org Launches BloggersChallenge

amysampleward — Wed, 01 Oct 2008 12:25:44 -0400

The month of October plays host to the DonorsChoose.org BloggersChallenge. Last year, the Challenge raised $500,000 and helped 75,000 kids in high-need public schools. Which bloggers will raise the most and what projects will get funded is up to you!

About the Challenge

DonorsChoose Bloggers Challenge: Who Will Win a Googe, Yahoo!, Six Apart or Federated Media Award?

Britt Bravo — Thu, 18 Oct 2007 15:06:30 -0400

Google, Yahoo!, Six Apart and Federated Media will give awards to the bloggers who have the greatest impact during the DonorsChoose Bloggers Challenge October 1-31st.

DonorsChoose is a nonprofit website where public school teachers post underfunded classroom projects like the Walk in the Wild project submitted by a second grade teacher at Spring Creek Elementary School in Kentwood, Louisiana. They need $1,265 to create an outdoor classroom which will include four discovery-learning stations. The school is located in the rural community of northern Tangipahoa Parish where 75% of the students receive free/reduced fee lunches.

Join the Blogger Challenge: Raise Funds for Public Schools

Britt Bravo — Tue, 20 Jun 2006 13:46:41 -0400

DonorsChoose has launched a new program called BloggersChoose which allows bloggers to search through mini-grant proposals that school teachers have submitted to DonorsChoose, and ask their readers to fund them.

As an experiment, I just set up my own Blogger's Challenge and will write a post tomorrow to ask my readers to support a Butterfly Garden for third graders in the Bronx where 73% of the students come from low income homes, a sixth grade Life Lab garden in San Jose where 77% of the students come from low income homes, and a school/community garden in Manhattan where 91% of the students come from low income homes.

DonorsChoose

Lars K — Fri, 04 Nov 2005 19:08:00 -0500

Project Screenshot

URL

www.donorschoose.org

Project Description

DonorsChoose is a nonprofit organization which facilitates support for education in the American public school system. Teachers can submit school project proposals on the website in any of the following categories: math & science, literacy & history, arts & music, physical education, field trips, and more. Individual donors, called Citizen Philanthropists, select which projects to fund, either partially or in full.

Once a Citizen Philanthropist chooses a school project to support, DonorsChoose delivers the requested resources to the school. The teacher documents the funded education project using a disposable camera (also provided by DonorsChoose), and sends back the camera with hand-written thank you notes from the students involved. DonorsChoose develops the project photos and sends them with an expenditure report, a letter from the teacher, as well as the students' thank you notes to the donor(s).