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Mr. Houser from Cheraw SC is requesting technology through DonorsChoose, the most trusted classroom funding site for teachers.

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Help Us Create a Self-Sustaining Arts Program

My students need a DVD publisher to help them produce DVDs of their music and drama performances.

  • $2,462 goal

Hooray! This project is fully funded

Hooray! This project is fully funded

Celebrate Black Teachers and Students

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.

My Students

We strive to give our students opportunities in a variety of the arts. Chorus, Drama, Percussion, Guitar, and Dance are offered to all of our students. We feel the arts motivate our students to be very best they can.

Our students attend school in a high poverty county in South Carolina.

Many of our students come from economically challenged situations. Our arts program provides many the opportunity to experience various forms of the performing and visual arts, which they would not normally be able to afford in the private sector.

My Project

Our goal with this project is to make our arts program more self-sustainable and less reliant on grants or funding that may not be available in the future. One way to do that is to video our performances, and then sell the DVDs to our family, friends and community members, generating a modest amount of funds which are fed directly back into our arts program. The students learn about the filming and production process in addition to the performance aspect.

Donating to this project will help to ensure that our Visual and Performing Arts programs will be available for future generations of students to come.

With the ability to produce and sell DVDs of our performances, we will be able offset some of the costs of maintaining our arts programs, as well as give our students some exposure to the Audio/Video production process.

Mr. Houser
Grades 3-5

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Where your donation goes
Materials Cost Quantity Total
Primera Technology 63516 Disc Publisher Dvd/cd-r Bravo 4051 • Amazon $1,899.99 1 $1,899.99

Materials cost

$1,899.99

Vendor shipping charges

 FREE

Sales tax

 $133.95

3rd party payment processing fee

$28.50

Fulfillment labor & materials

$30.00

Total project cost

$2,092.44

Suggested donation to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

$369.25

Total project goal

$2,461.69

How we calculate what's needed

Total project goal

 $2,461.69

7 Donors

-$2,361.69

Donations toward project cost

-$2,007.44

Donations to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

-$354.25

match offer

-$100.00

Match offer toward project cost

-$85.00

Match offer to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

-$15.00

Still needed View calculationHide calculation

 $0.00

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