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Ms. Y.'s classroom raised $1,176

Inspiring Students to Dream Big through Literacy!

My students need 36 copies of "Reach: 40 Black Men Speak on Living, Leading, and Succeeding" and various other inspiring titles for our classroom library and curriculum.

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Ms. Y.
Grades 9-12

My Students

My students are full of heart and hope. I want to inspire a passion to overcome obstacles and achieve their dreams and goals.

Most of my students are ethnically diverse, inner-city students in Los Angeles.

70% of them are bussed to my school and travel long and far to get a quality education. I want to do the best I can and inspire them with content that makes them want to read and makes them curious about the world around them. I want them to see how what they read is connected to their lives and be inspired by the stories of others.

My Project

I am requesting a class set of the inspiring book "Reach: 40 Black Men Speak on Living, Leading, and Succeeding" and various other book titles of inspiring stories for our classroom library. We will study their decisions in life, how they overcame obstacles, how they built financial literacy and success, and how they went in search of their dreams. I want my students to see that what they read is connected to their lives and that they can learn from the stories of others. Through bringing role models into the classroom, through literature and real life, I hope to inspire them to know that they too can achieve and create the life they want for themselves.

The curriculum students have access to can make or break their experience in school.

As a teacher new to my school this year, I want to inspire students to shape their destinies and futures. I hope you will consider supporting this project and helping build literacy get inspired to achieve their dreams. Thank you!

This project will directly impact historically underfunded classrooms.

150 students impacted 5 donors
Ms. Y. Grades 9-12

This project will directly impact historically underfunded classrooms.

150 students impacted 5donors

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Materials Cost Quantity Total
Reach: 40 Black Men Speak on Living, Leading, and Succeeding • Amazon $12.21 30 $366.30
Reach: 40 Black Men Speak on Living, Leading, and Succeeding • Amazon $12.21 6 $73.26
Thrive: The Third Metric to Redefining Success and Creating a Life of Well-Being, Wisdom, and Wonder • Amazon $17.56 1 $17.56
Be Quick - But Don't Hurry: Finding Success in the Teachings of a Lifetime • Amazon $17.44 1 $17.44
Being Mortal: Medicine and What Matters in the End • Amazon $15.60 1 $15.60
I Am Malala: The Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Was Shot by the Taliban • Amazon $15.60 1 $15.60
Manchild in the Promised Land • Amazon $15.21 1 $15.21
Daring Greatly: How the Courage to Be Vulnerable Transforms the Way We Live, Love, Parent, and Lead • Amazon $14.66 1 $14.66
Black Boy: A Record of Childhood and Youth • Amazon $13.39 1 $13.39
Eleven Rings: The Soul of Success • Amazon $13.24 1 $13.24
Down These Mean Streets • Amazon $13.18 1 $13.18
Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything • Amazon $12.51 1 $12.51
...y no se lo tragó la tierra / ...And the Earth Did Not Devour Him (English and Spanish Edition) • Amazon $12.46 1 $12.46
Their Eyes Were Watching God • Amazon $12.39 1 $12.39
Sputnik Sweetheart: A Novel • Amazon $12.30 1 $12.30
Always Running: La Vida Loca: Gang Days in L.A. • Amazon $11.81 1 $11.81
Autobiography of a Brown Buffalo • Amazon $11.46 1 $11.46
This Is How You Lose Her • Amazon $11.10 1 $11.10
A Thousand Splendid Suns • Amazon $10.71 1 $10.71
The Kite Runner • Amazon $10.67 1 $10.67
Drown • Amazon $10.29 1 $10.29
The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People: Powerful Lessons in Personal Change • Amazon $10.20 1 $10.20
The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics • Amazon $10.20 1 $10.20
Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can't Stop Talking • Amazon $10.17 1 $10.17
Americanah • Amazon $10.00 1 $10.00
The Namesake: A Novel • Amazon $9.91 1 $9.91
The Power of Habit: Why We Do What We Do in Life and Business • Amazon $9.69 1 $9.69
The Checklist Manifesto: How to Get Things Right • Amazon $9.66 1 $9.66
Unbroken: A World War II Story of Survival, Resilience, and Redemption • Amazon $9.60 1 $9.60
Eat, Pray, Love: One Woman's Search for Everything Across Italy, India and Indonesia • Amazon $9.52 1 $9.52
Wild: From Lost to Found on the Pacific Crest Trail • Amazon $9.48 1 $9.48
The Alchemist • Amazon $8.92 1 $8.92
The Book Thief • Amazon $8.52 1 $8.52
Thinking, Fast and Slow • Amazon $8.30 1 $8.30
The Bluest Eye (Vintage International) • Amazon $7.91 1 $7.91
The House on Mango Street • Amazon $7.17 1 $7.17
The Fault in Our Stars • Amazon $6.50 1 $6.50
Night • Amazon $6.00 1 $6.00
1984 (Signet Classics) • Amazon $6.00 1 $6.00
The Catcher in the Rye • Amazon $6.00 1 $6.00
Anne Frank: The Diary of a Young Girl • Amazon $5.99 1 $5.99
Lone Survivor: The Eyewitness Account of Operation Redwing and the Lost Heroes of SEAL Team 10 • Amazon $5.40 1 $5.40
To Kill a Mockingbird • Amazon $5.15 1 $5.15
Siddhartha • Amazon $4.11 1 $4.11

Materials cost

$875.54

Vendor shipping charges

 FREE

Sales tax

 $80.11

3rd party payment processing fee

$13.13

Fulfillment labor & materials

$30.00

Total project cost

$998.78

Suggested donation to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

$176.26

Total project goal

$1,175.04

How we calculate what's needed

Total project goal

 $1,175.04

3 Donors

-$587.52

Donations toward project cost

-$499.39

Donations to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

-$88.13

match offer

-$587.52

Match offer toward project cost

-$499.39

Match offer to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

-$88.13

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