Adopt a Classroom!
$2,055 Donated Already
February 05, 2008
Adopt-A-Classroom invites the community into the classroom in support of teachers and their students. By adopting a classroom, donors form partnerships with specific classrooms providing financial and moral support. The result is a meaningful contribution to education in which donors experience the impact of their efforts and celebrate in a classroom's success.
Several teachers in the Hiawatha school district (47) are now registered at the site and since February 5 $2,055 has been donated already. Thanks to all those patrons that have donated! If you are interested, please visit the web site at www.adoptaclassroom.org and click on Kansas on the map and then click on the city of Hiawatha. You will then see a list of teachers that are registered that you can adopt. Your donation is made online, then the teacher is notified that someone has made a donation and they get to spend 100% of the money using the educational vendors (Office Max and Scholastic to name just a few) at the site.
Adopt-A-Classroom directs 100% of the donation to the classroom teacher in the form of online credit. Adopt-A-Classroom takes $0 for administration.
The teacher uses the credit to shop online from a network of affiliate vendors that have partnered with Adopt-A-Classroom. The teacher has full discretion to purchase resources that meet student needs and increase opportunity for classroom success. If the teacher is unable to meet classroom needs with the affiliate vendors, Adopt-A-Classroom will work with the teacher on a one-to-one basis.
Adopt-A-Classroom sends each donor an "Impact Report" which details item-by-item, dollar-for-dollar what the teacher purchased with the donation.
Donors and teachers communicate throughout the school year, so donors can learn about the difference they have made in the lives of the students. In most instances, donors receive thank you packages, artwork and other student created projects. Donors may choose to support the classroom in ways beyond the financial contribution, such as visiting the classroom, chaperoning field trips and other activities that are coordinated directly between donor and teacher.
