Hello all,
hope everyone had a very restful holiday season! As we are about
to get back to school, I am once again encouraging teachers, who have
particular technology and material wants/needs to go ahead and write a grant
for www.donorschoose.org
At our school alone over 50 grants have
been fulfilled through this website and I personally had 5 fulfilled during
the month of December alone!
The result? A laptop, document camera, INTERACTIVE
WHITEBOARD ( yes I FINALLY got one!!!!) multiple books and lessons on character
ed and bullying, various science and energy
experiments, equipment and materials, floor cushions, stress balls,
Microsoft office license and more!
IN addition another teacher from our school used a few of the
tips I gave in previous emails and had 2 grants fulfilled in
less than 2 weeks! She is receiving 2 laptops, a digital camera, weather
station and more!
Sound too good to be true? Its NOT! Again, don't worry about
your writing skills - you are a teacher after all! Follow some of the pointers
I gave you and you could be on your way to having many of the items you may
have only wished for before. Also if you are one that learns better by seeing a
model, feel free to look at some of my completed grants at the following
site http://www.donorschoose.org/harbisonshomeroom
This will give you an idea of just how easy this is!
So here is my latest tip:
1.
Regularly check the following website to see
what donors are out there
to fulfill large portions of your grant - http://help.donorschoose.org/app/fundingopportunities#northcarolina
2.
Post grants near to PATRIOTIC holidays,
CHRISTMAS and definitely NEW YEARS. 3 of my grants were fulled on the
31st of December as an end of year non-profit donation and an couple of my
grants recieved donations for Christmas.
3.
For what its worth the MOST RELIABLE funder
of grants I have seen so far is TOWNSEND PRESS. If your projects relates
to combating bullying they will fulfill most,
if not all of the grant for you. They have funded two of my grants and multiple
others in our school and county.
Here is a new company that is currently helping to get
technology into classrooms:
Double Your Impact From Leapfrog
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50% match offer for projects that request the LeapFrog Tag School Reading System. Projects should include LeapFrog Tag School readers, books, maps and accessoriesonly. Materials should cost $350 or less.
Tag School readers can be found through the following vendors: Best Buy, CDW, Kaplan Early Learning Company, Nasco, Quill, School Specialty, and Teachers' School Supply. Be sure to include the phrase "LeapFrog Tag readers" to qualify.
May you new year be filled with lots of great
new equipment and materials from Donors Choose,
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