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Posted by jenny on
Friday,
December 16, 2011 at 8:00am
This Friday, December 16, our awesome friends at YouTube are going to hold a Holiday Giving Flash Mob… They won’t be dancing or pretending to be frozen in Grand Central Station (that we know of), they’ll just be funding as many projects as they can! It’s such a fun and generous idea, and we’re so excited to team up with them.
Help them mob us for good by picking a project you’re passionate about on the site, and donating to it.
And be sure to check out Charles Best’s message to the participants:
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Posted by Risa on
Wednesday,
December 14, 2011 at 8:44pm
Many of you have noticed our exciting partnership with OO.com, a Next Jump company. Through this partnership, Next Jump is supporting critical technology projects on DonorsChoose.org and inspiring the next generation of engineers. As you may have also noticed, this partnership has evolved since it first launched in November, leading to many exciting changes on www.OO.com/SA500Kids.
As a pioneering technology company, Next Jump is continuously creating, tweaking, and innovating. In the words of their Founder and CEO, Charlie Kim, “We have a culture of innovation, and the ability to experiment is key in our investments.” These investments include SA500 Kids and Shop Save Give on OO.com.
This philosophy and approach explain an upcoming change that will impact the way voting works on www.OO.com/SA500Kids. To make sure our teachers and their supporters know what to expect, we’ve published full campaign details in our Help Center, along with information about this upcoming voting change. We’ll continue to add details to that page as we learn more, so stay tuned!
We’re grateful for the passion that DonorsChoose.org teachers and the Next Jump team display to bring technology into more public school classrooms across the country.
This past fall DonorsChoose.org posted a company profile on InternMatch, seeking winter interns. A few weeks later we were matched!
Here is our Logistics and Business Relations Intern, Joesph, in his own words:
While I am an intern and not a full-time staff member, I have been given real projects and been able to play a significant role in DonorsChoose.org’s mission to best serve teachers and their needs. Analyzing this data helps the organization make more informed decisions about how to get the right resources at the lowest possible cost.
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Posted by Dan on
Tuesday,
December 13, 2011 at 10:00am
This holiday season you can SHOP, SAVE, and GIVE technology to classrooms with Next Jump! For every dollar spent on Next Jump’s discount site OO.com, the company will donate one WOWPoint reward to SA500 Kids, the fundraising campaign to fulfill teacher’s requests to bring technology to public school classrooms on DonorsChoose.org!
At OO.com, shoppers can earn WOWPoints rewards towards future purchases, and automatically donate one WOWPoint per dollar spent directly to public school classrooms! WOWPoints are earned by shoppers on every transaction, never expire, and can be redeemed towards free purchases or turned to cash.
Since the launch on November 25th, more than 13.2 million WOWPoints have been raised on OO.com and 293 projects have already been funded.
Next Jump is dedicated to grooming future generations of engineers who might one day attend SA500, the epic East Coast engineering recruitment event which inspired SA500 Kids. The goal of SA500 Kids is to expose children to technology as early as possible so they can one day grow up to fill those roles.
Next Jump is on trend to fund thousands of technology projects on DonorsChoose.org, making it a very bright holiday season for thousands of classrooms around the country.
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Posted by Katie on
Monday,
December 12, 2011 at 1:57pm
Over the past month we’ve been working with ABC Family to champion some really cool high school students and teachers. Their new program, Bright Students, Big Ideas has been dramatically changing classrooms from St. Louis, MO to Robbins, NC.
ABC Family’s new program, Bright Students, Big Ideas!, is helping high school students get the funding they need to bring their projects to life. Since launching their Double Your Impact offer, they’ve funded over 98 student-generated ideas, and there are lots more great ones that still need additional support.
ABC Family believes that everyone has the power to think big! So get your creative juices flowing and get started at www.abcfamily.com/brightstudents!
Our friends at Apartment Therapy know that while it’s better to give than receive, receiving is really fun, too! That’s why every year they have a Holiday Giveaway, and they offer great prizes to their readers throughout the holiday season. Apartment Therapy is asking you to pay it forward – enter to win one of the dozens of great prizes they’re offering, and then give something back.
Visit the Apartment Therapy Giving Page, where the staff of Apartment Therapy has hand-chosen projects that fit the blog’s topics: design, technology, cooking, and green products.Donate any amount to help one of these classrooms in needand you’ll automatically be entered to win the following:
A House Tour feature on Apartment Therapy—your home, your style, photographed by Apartment Therapy and shared with their readers. Not into sharing your home? You can also gift that feature to a very worthy friend or relative! ‘Tis the season for giving, after all.
One of three Generation Chairs by Knoll(worth $840 each) – the first chair that lets you sit how you want.
Donate today and spread the word to help Apartment Therapy reach their goal of 500 donors!
The Real Simple Pop-Up Shop kicked off Thursday morning, and our Founder, Charles Best, was involved in the ribbon-cutting ceremony! He stood alongside Real Simple Editor-in-Chief Kristin van Ogtrop, Good Morning America’s Sam Champion, and celebrity stylist and designer Carson Kressley to ceremonially began the start of the 6-day shopping extravaganza.
The Real Simple Pop-Up Shop runs December 8 -13, at CitiPond at Bryant Park.
Check out Carson sharing his fond school memories:
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Posted by Anna on
Thursday,
December 8, 2011 at 11:33am
New York City high school science teacher Theresa Stanley has been helping her school get much-needed supplies in a somewhat unorthodox way. For an entire month, she’s been “growing” a Mustache. Every day, her students choose what style her Mustache will take, and she draws the chosen style on her upper lip.
Now that is a Mustache.
She’s already completed two classroom projects, and is working to complete a third. Help her support more kids by donating to her Mustache.
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Posted by Katie on
Wednesday,
December 7, 2011 at 8:44pm
Lizzie O’Leary, a Washington D.C.-based correspondent for Bloomberg Television, and Rachel Sklar, Editor-at-Large at Mediaite, share a birthday – December 8th!
To celebrate their birthdays, Rachel and Lizzie created a “Beltway To The Big Apple to the Bayou” birthday fundraiser to help students in need at DonorsChoose.org.
They are asking their friends, family and Twitter followers to support classroom projects in their home cities of NY and DC, and in New Orleans, where they met and became friends. Their goal is to raise $5,000, so please help them out!
Also, for people who give over $100, they will do a funny shout-out on Twitter. You can watch the action on their Twitter accounts: @rachelsklar and @lizzieohreally.
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Posted by jenny on
Thursday,
December 1, 2011 at 7:00am
We here at DonorsChoose.org loveReal Simple. Flipping through the magazine or exploring the website always results in several time-saving shortcuts as well as fun and innovative ideas for organization. So you can imagine our delight when we were offered a chance to team up for the Real Simple Holiday Pop-Up Shop!
We would like to cordially (er, electronically!) invite you to join us:
Who: Real Simple, DonorsChoose.org, and you!
Where: CitiPond at Bryant Park, New York City
What: Real Simple Holiday Pop-Up Shop
When: December 8 – 13, 2011, 11am – 8pm.
Why: to check out items (all $50 or less!) from the Real Simple Gift Guide.
We were honored to be among Real Simple’sUnexpected Gift Card Ideas, which will also be available for purchase at the Pop-Up Shop. If you haven’t done your holiday shopping yet (and maybe even if you have!), we’ll see you there!
