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Ms. Houshour from Brooklyn, NY is requesting supplies through DonorsChoose, the most trusted classroom funding site for teachers.

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Ms. Houshour's classroom raised $1,872

Make Us Your Recycling Rockstars!

My students need 63 assorted recycling containers.

Ms. Houshour Middle School 113 Ronald Edmonds Learning Center

Brooklyn, NY Grades 6-8

Help us protect the environment. Give us recycling bins and we'll give you trees! I am a sixth grade technology teacher at a Title I school. Our schools' students are very talented and strive to excel, despite the many obstacles they face. We aim to provide our students the best education possible, which sometimes means teachers must be creative in finding resources.

My students want to feel like they are making a positive contribution to their world. They are often talking about environmental problems and want to do something to help. This grant would give us the supplies we need--bins for every classroom and office and collection stations for every floor, including the school cafeteria--to have a successful student-run school-wide recycling program. Students will feel proud of doing something to reduce deforestation and their carbon footprint. They will also feel empowered to work toward making our school, and the world, more green.

In my classroom, students are learning about how to be responsible, active citizens. They have written letters to our Mayor asking for support in making schools more environmentally responsible. We'll use our recycling program to learn the capabilities of Excel to organize data, as we track our recycling collection as part of EPA's Waste Wise program. We'll also create our own podcasts and videos on recycling that we’ll publish on the web. I will support this program by starting an Environmental Club as a volunteer because there are no funds for school-based after school programs.

The vast majority of what our school is sending to landfills and incinerators is recyclable. We want to divert all of that recyclable waste so it will be made into something else! (We also want to follow recycling laws!) Help us get recycling bins and we’ll become your recycling rockstars! We promise to save trees and teach each other how to be lifelong environmental stewards.

This project will directly impact historically underfunded classrooms.

Nearly all students from low‑income households

1000 students impacted 14 donors

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Brooklyn, NY
Grades 6-8
Climate & The Environment
Literacy
Social Sciences
Traditional School
Supplies
Nearly all students from low‑income households

Ms. Houshour Middle School 113 Ronald Edmonds Learning Center Grades 6-8

Celebrate Black teachers and kids! This project supports a Black teacher or a school where the majority of students are Black.

This project will directly impact historically underfunded classrooms.

Brooklyn, NY View local requests

Nearly all students from low‑income households Data about students' economic need comes from the National Center for Education Statistics, via our partners at MDR Education. Learn more

1000 students impacted 14donors

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Materials Cost Quantity Total

TALL ROUND RECYCLING RECEPTACLE CAN Safco Tall Round Recycling Can Receptacle • Quill $89.99 6 $539.94

23 GALLON UNTOUCHABLE SQUARE RECYCLING CONTAINER Rubbermaid Untouchable Recycling Waste Containers • Quill $56.69 5 $283.45

15"H X 14 1/4 D X 11 3/8 W Rubbermaid Recycling Container; Wastebasket, 28-1/8 Quart • Quill $5.84 50 $292.00

BRUTE RL OUT RECYCLING CNTNR W/ LID 50 GL BLUE Rubbermaid Brute Rollout Recycle Container with Lid • Quill $116.99 2 $233.98

Materials cost			$1,349.37
Vendor shipping charges			$134.94
Sales tax			$0.00
3rd party payment processing fee			$33.73
Fulfillment labor & materials			$17.00
Total project cost			$1,535.00
Suggested donation to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms			$336.95
Total project goal			$1,871.95
How we calculate what's needed
Total project goal			$1,871.95
14 Donors			-$1,795.88
Donations toward project cost			-$1,526.50
Donations to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms			-$269.38
Excluded support for DonorsChoose			-$65.71
Still needed View calculation Hide calculation			$10.37

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