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Ms. Welshans from Philadelphia PA is requesting supplies through DonorsChoose, the most trusted classroom funding site for teachers.

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Urban Softball Initiative

My students need 10 gloves, 3 bats, softballs, and a pitcher's rubber to play in a school district league.

  • $835 goal

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This project is part of the Black History Month celebration because it supports a Black teacher or a school where the majority of the students are Black.

I am joining the district softball league for girls in an urban area but we do not have the equipment that is needed to participate in the program.

We are allowed to join a softball league in our school district but are not being provided with the equipment that is necessary to play! We have an entire group of girls that have completed the permission slips and want to play but we lack the correct equipment.

We need softball equipment of all types. The only thing that we are being given is the catchers equipment. We have students that can not afford to buy gloves and most certainly can not afford to buy other equipment. The budget crisis makes it difficult to be about to find assistance in facilitating purchasing equipment.

We really would love to be able to have the students participate in a sporting activity. It will help to improve their physical activity, self esteem and ability to work with other people. It is a great opportunity for these girls and it would be a shame that they could not participate in the program because the school district did not assist them in having equipment.

Ms. Welshans
Grades 6-8

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Materials Cost Quantity Total
13" SOFTBALL FIELDER'S GLOVE-LEFT HANDED (WORN ON RIGHT HAND) • Cannon Sports, Inc. $39.95 3 $119.85
26" 15oz. EASTON SK30 SYNERGY FASTPITCH SOFTBALL BAT • Cannon Sports, Inc. $42.75 1 $42.75
29"/20OZ SK33BP CYCLONE ALUM SOFTBALL BAT • Cannon Sports, Inc. $46.75 1 $46.75
DIAMOND 12RSC44, WHITE, RED STITCH SOFTBALLS (One dozen) • Cannon Sports, Inc. $53.45 1 $53.45
OFFICIAL SIZE, CSI PITCHER'S RUBBER 8LBS. • Cannon Sports, Inc. $13.95 1 $13.95
27" 16oz. EASTON SK30 SYNERGY FASTPITCH SOFTBALL BAT • Cannon Sports, Inc. $42.75 1 $42.75
12" VARSITY FIELDER'S GLOVE-RIGHT-HANDED (WORN ON LEFT HAND) • Cannon Sports, Inc. $34.75 7 $243.25

Materials cost

$562.75

Vendor shipping charges

 $56.28

Sales tax

 $33.77

3rd party payment processing fee

$14.07

Fulfillment labor & materials

$17.00

Total project cost

$684.00

Suggested donation to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

$150.15

Total project goal

$834.15

How we calculate what's needed

Total project goal

 $834.15

15 Donors

-$804.71

Donations toward project cost

-$684.00

Donations to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

-$120.71

Excluded support for DonorsChoose

-$29.44

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 $0.00

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