Donors Choose

Thanks for using your blog to promote the Jefferson High School project on DonorsChoose.org. I’m thrilled that it was fully funded! We are new to Portland, and Oregon in general, having just opened our website to teachers across the nation in September 2007. In that short time, we have channeled more than $36,000 in resources to Oregon classrooms, from donors in 31 states.

Since our founding by a teacher in the Bronx in April 2000, and operating in selected regions of the country, we’ve helped teachers from New York to LA get more than $19 Million in resources. And the super-cool thing is that donors to these projects receive a thank-you package from “their” classrooms, each of which includes student thank-you notes, a letter from the teacher, photos of the students using the materials, and a project cost report, showing where every dollar was spent. For more than 75% of our donors, ours is their first-ever donation to public education. And their donation gives them a window into the amazing work going on in our schools. So, we really are bringing the public to public education and bringing public education to the public!

We would love to see more Portland teachers utilizing our website to get the resources they need for their students to learn, and we sincerely appreciate you and other bloggers in the Portland area that are helping us “get the word out.” Although we have a good number of Portland teachers using our website already, we won’t be satisfied until we have ALL of them doing so.

Kris Murray
Deputy Director, DonorsChoose.org