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AT wants to fund these classrooms! LAST DAY!

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This is it. We're in the home stretch of AT's Donors Choose Challenge. AT is currently in 2nd place in our division with $4,140 total raised! We still want to raise $2,060 to fully fund these projects. Please help us!

Kid-sized couch for kindergartners in Tennessee ($586 needed)

Art projector for middle-schoolers in New York ($685 needed)

Mural paint supplies for students in Chicago ($789 needed)

Click through to our Giving Page to donate!

 
 

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  • Basic Supplies: a classroom in Georgia needs basic school supplies such as pencils, paper, crayons, and a pencil sharpener. FUNDED!
  • Kitchen Center: Mrs. P's kids in New York City need a kitchen center and play pots and pans. FUNDED!
  • 20 Desks: Students in Louisiana need 20 desks to have their own space while having the ability to complete group projects. FUNDED!
  • Composition Notebooks ($125 needed): First-graders in Northern California need new composition notebooks for daily writing. FUNDED!
  • Activity Tables ($801 needed): Mrs. R's classroom in Tennessee needs seven round activity tables conducive to cooperative learning. FUNDED!
  • Basic Supplies ($206 needed): 2nd-graders in Brooklyn need basic supplies like crayons, pencils, and glue. FUNDED!
  • Kid-sized couch and Easel ($621 needed): Kindergartners in Tennessee need a kid sized couch for their listening center, a big book magnetic book holder, and a large magnetic write and wipe easel.
  • Projector ($823 needed): Mr. C's middle-schoolers need a projector so they can view art historical powerpoint presentations, instructional and tie-in videos, and present their own multimedia projects to the rest of the class and the school at large.
  • Paint Supplies ($899 needed): Students in Chicago need mural paint, paint brushes, and 20 sets of paint markers.



And here's how Apartment Therapy is doing on all their sponsored projects:

AT Donors: 168

AT Donor Donations: $4,140

Students Impacted: 322


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This is an awesome organization. My Fiance bought musical instruments (triangles and other simple instruemts) for a kindergarten class last year.

posted by I Love Upstate on October 1st 2008 at 9:57am
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Hi, I am actually an art teacher here in chicago, and I have been participating in Donor's Choose for close to two years. I have a project on the site, and with my $100 budget for the ENTIRE YEAR, any assistance to my project would be greatly accepted.
My project is called "A lovely mural for a lovely school".

Thanks!

posted by allisonkath on October 1st 2008 at 10:02am
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If there are more teachers looking for desks in Chicago, here are some free ones I found on Craigslist.

posted by backgarage on October 15th 2008 at 5:08am
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Great program! -- I hope more teachers hear about it - some schools need even the bare essentials - i volunteered in a public school classroom where the 5th grade students didn't have enough paper or pencils and there was no chalk for the teacher! It's incredibly disheartening to see how some of our schools are left so far behind others because of a lack of funding. Those kids don't deserve to feel like second class citizens, but that's the message they are getting. It's great so see people excited about helping our schools. I hope the word spreads!

posted by eml35 on October 23rd 2008 at 11:59am
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It's baffling and sad that some of these inner city schools that absorb so munch government money can still have teachers asking for DESKS, and PENCILS. Something is truly effed in the system.

posted by radiobaby on October 30th 2008 at 9:22am
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