New Way to Give to Teachers

Imagine if you will, what it would be like to spend 50-70 hours per week; planning, teaching, struggling, being studied, being judged by the public, parents, administrators and anyone else with an opinion all while trying to educate a class full of different learning levels. Compound those challenges with behavioral and mental disabled kids vying for your and their classmates attention. While you're at it go ahead and throw in an added issue of being underfunded for some basic classroom needs and you will find many of our public educators.

My family is full of them; undervalued, misunderstood, under payed and in many cases they are springing for things they need in the classroom out of their extremely light pocketbooks. Yes beleive it or not our public school systems do have talented, thoughtful and imaginative individuals. But they need some help and support!



Enter: DonorsChoose.org a group that lets teachers post what they need (but have no budget for) and you and I get to choose what we want to help provide by funding all or part of what the project they post!

Sound cool? It gets better, you and I (the donors) get a tax break, the teacher and students get what they need. In my book, that is a winning combination. Charles Best, the founder of DonorsChoose.org received several awards for his cool new concept. And hey any non-profit who can get Stephen Colbert (yes from The Colbert Report) on their board of directors, has to be cool!

Kudos to Charles and crew for helping those like many of my family spending 50-70 hours, for little money in less than perfect conditions making a real difference in the lives of so many. So head out there and sponsor a project or two, trust me giving to these individuals who give so much will feel great!