You're on track to get doubled donations (and unlock a reward for the colleague who referred you). Keep up the great work!
Take credit for your charitable giving! Check out your tax receipts
Donate
To use your $50 gift card credits, find a project to fund and we'll automatically apply your credits at checkout. Find a classroom project
Skip to main content

Help teachers & students in your hometown this season!
Use code HOME at checkout and your donation will be matched up to $100.

Your school email address was successfully verified.

This teacher needs your help!

Mr. Olden from White Swan, WA is requesting technology through DonorsChoose, the most trusted classroom funding site for teachers.

See what Mr. Olden is requesting

Help Start a Digital Library and B&N Nook Exchange Program!

My students need 4 Barnes & Noble Nook eReaders to help start a digital library exchange program.

  • $575 goal

This project expired on May 11, 2012.

This project expired on May 11, 2012.

Classroom photo
Mr. Olden White Swan High School
White Swan, WA Grades 9-12

My Students

My students cannot afford to buy books to read and the school district has limited funds, making it difficult to keep our library stocked. The local library is underfunded and the larger branches are 30 miles away. The area’s only major bookstore closed this year, making getting new books difficult.

My students live in a highly impoverished and rural area on a reservation in Washington State.

Over 90% of them live well below the poverty line and struggle to own proper clothes, food, and school materials -- owning books, technology, or venturing outside our rural valley is nothing something many of them are fortunate to be able to do. Funding for our school is minimal and every year we’re asked to do more with less. The local bookstore closed this year, making it difficult for students to find new books, forcing them to rely on the school and libraries for all their reading needs and we aren’t equipped to meet that need. Thanks to micro-grants provided by DonorsChoose and other organizations, I’ve been able to provide new reading materials for my students and replacing old technology, but the need is greater than I’ve been able to provide for and my students need additional assistance from donors who are looking to help improve the education of some impoverished and deserving kids.

My Project

Because of our rural location and poverty level, getting access to interesting or up-to-date books is challenging for many of our students. Similar to a laptop-exchange program, I want to start an eReader-exchange program for those students who would like to read but can’t afford new books. While a program like this is expensive to start, it has a lower overhead once it is up and running. eBooks sell for less that physical books and one B&N Nook account can sync to multiple devices, making each book we buy essentially stretch further. For relatively little cost, the library on these devices can be updated constantly as new books come out, expanding the amount of books available for our students to read while minimizing cost and storage issues. Buying 4 Nook eReaders is a great start, but the eventual goal is to get enough so that a good amount of the student body can check them out and take them home to complete required readings for class and expand their literary horizons.

I have students who ask me every year what I can suggest to them to read.

What I’ve found is that for many of them if I do not provide the books for them, they will never get them. We just live too far away from a decent book store and we have too little money to buy the books our students really need. A program like this could be one way we solve that problem and could help me empower a generation of readers.

This project will directly impact historically underfunded classrooms.

Nearly all students from low‑income households

250 students impacted
Mr. Olden White Swan High School Grades 9-12

This project will directly impact historically underfunded classrooms.

White Swan, WA 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

250 students impacted

Boost your odds

Add a profile photo in addition to your classroom photo. If you add a photo, it'll show up right here on your project page.

You are more likely to receive funding if you put a face to your name.

Upload a photo

Top rated for efficiency and transparency.

You donate directly to the teacher or project you care about and see where every dollar you give goes.

Expand the "Where your donation goes" section below to see exactly what Mr. Olden is requesting.

See our finances

TEACHERS, FEELING INSPIRED?

You can start a project with the same resources being requested here!

Where Your Donation Goes

Where your donation goes
Materials Cost Quantity Total
Barnes & Noble NOOK The Simple Touch Reader™ • Best Buy $99.99 4 $399.96

Materials cost

$399.96

Vendor shipping charges

 $12.00

Sales tax

 $35.00

3rd party payment processing fee

$6.00

Fulfillment labor & materials

$35.00

Total project cost

$487.96

Suggested donation to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

$86.11

Total project goal

$574.07

Our team works hard to negotiate the best pricing and selections available.

View complete list Show less

Project Activity

Project Activity
Back to top

DonorsChoose is the most trusted classroom funding site for teachers.

As a teacher-founded nonprofit, we're trusted by thousands of teachers and supporters across the country. This classroom request for funding was created by Mr. Olden and reviewed by the DonorsChoose team.

See how DonorsChoose works
{"pmaHash":"","showProjectRecommendations":true,"leadGenEnabled":false,"hideTeacherDetails":false,"schoolState":"WA","teacherPossessivePronoun":"his","PMsManager":null,"schoolGradeType":{"id":4,"name":"High School"},"TeacherPMForms":{},"completingDonationAmount":575,"teacherHasClassroomPhoto":true,"proposalURL":"https://www.donorschoose.org/project/help-start-a-digital-library-and-bn-noo/695804/","mayHaveReplacements":false,"numStudents":250,"isEquityFocusV1":true,"teacherScreenName":"Mr. Olden","isEquityFocus":true,"proposalHash":"-1346375013","isApplePayMobileOnly":true,"progressBarPercentage":0.00,"monthlySchoolDonationEnabled":true,"photosPublished":false,"queryString":"","DonorPMForm":null,"shouldTrackEquityFocusV2":true,"schoolCity":"White Swan","teachersOnPage":[985068],"isTeacherViewingTheirOwnProject":false,"minimizedLeadGenEnabled":false,"proposalId":695804,"proposalMessageFormModel":null,"numActiveProjects":0,"verifyShowPhotos":"","eligibleToBeCopied":false,"schoolId":36814,"schoolName":"White Swan High School","authorIds":{"985068":{"owner":"Mr. Olden","donationSalutations":{}}},"displayedPercentFunded":0.0,"proposalsOnPage":[695804],"pmaId":"","teacherProfilePhotoURL":"https://cdn.donorschoose.net/images/placeholder-avatars/272/teacher-placeholder-5_272.png?auto=webp","teacherHasProfilePhoto":false,"currentWorkflowStatusCode":6,"teacherChallengeId":172045,"isApplePayEnabled":true,"fundedByTarget":false,"activeProject":null,"donorIdsForImpactPhotoCheck":[],"teacherId":985068,"schoolCounty":"Yakima","fullyFunded":false,"isStudentLed":false,"isExpired":true,"schoolStateObj":{"code":"WA","name":"Washington"}}