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Ms. Fong from Oxnard, CA is requesting materials related to food, clothing & hygiene through DonorsChoose, the most trusted classroom funding site for teachers.

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A Peony for Your Thoughts

Help me give my students a button machine, soap making equipment, and flowers for Garden and Eco Club's community service projects.

FULLY FUNDED! Ms. Fong's classroom raised $500

This project is fully funded

Celebrating Hispanic & Latinx Heritage Month

Celebrate Hispanic & Latinx Heritage Month

This project is a part of the Hispanic & Latinx Heritage Month celebration because it supports a Latino teacher or a school where the majority of students are Latino.

My Project

To promote environmental stewardship, the Eco club wants to make button pins that students can get as an incentive for recycling and doing other good green deeds around campus or in life. Sort of like how scouts can earn badges, club members can earn a button pin to display on their backpack or sweatshirts for everyone to see and get peers involved in recycling, reusing, and caring about the environment. Earning these button badges will increase the amount of students that participate in our monthly Community Service projects. They want to design their own buttons and we would use the button machine with complementary button backs and covers. For example, my students made a mock up for a “Recycle Warrior” button pin. Members can earn this button badge by collecting plastic bottles and bringing them to our local recycle center for community service hours.

The Garden Club is going to be harvesting flowers this year from our garden that they want to incorporate into a variety of community service projects.

Once a month, after school, our club members harvest plants, trim back plants, and sow seeds for community service. We also want to make soap from our garden's flowers. We need the soap melter, shea butter blocks, molds, and essential oils. They need to melt the blocks of soap using the Fast Melt soap melter, pour the liquid into molds, add fragrance, and their decorative flower petals from our school garden. Earning buttons and making soaps would help incentivize students school wide to participate in community service and make learning about school and community gardens fun.

Garden club needs more seeds to plant when we harvest our current ones and watering olla and coconut fiber for our portable spring garden bed that we will set up in April.

Ms. Fong Oxnard High School Grades 9-12

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This project will directly impact historically underfunded classrooms.

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More than half of 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

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Where Your Donation Goes

Materials Cost Quantity Total
FAST MELT 3L Soap Base Melter - Soap Making Kit with Constant Temperature Control Melter, Quick Pour Spout, Ideal for Homemade Soap Business Fast Loading Easy Clean • Amazon Business $99.99 1 $99.99
The Olla Company | Olla Classic Large – Clay Watering Pot with lid | Terra Cotta Clay Irrigation Pots| Self Watering Ollas While on Vacation • Amazon Business $64.99 1 $64.99
Happizza Button Maker Machine 58mm - (3rd Gen) Installation-Free 58mm(2.25in) DIY Pin Badge Button Maker Press Machine Badge Punch Press with Free 100pcs Button Parts&Pictures&Circle Cutter&Magic Book • Amazon Business $59.99 1 $59.99
Primal Elements Shea Butter Soap Base - Moisturizing Melt and Pour Glycerin Soap Base for Crafting and Soap Making, Vegan, Cruelty Free, Easy to Cut - 10 Pound • Amazon Business $39.49 1 $39.49
Hula Home Premium Soap Making Kit - 44oz Purple Silicone Mold with Wooden Box, Cutter, Measuring Tools and 100 Bags - Ideal for Adults, Melt and Pour or Cold Process Soap • Amazon Business $29.49 1 $29.49
Fragrance Oil Set - Premium Grade 10 Pcs Scented Oils for Candle Making, Soap Scents, Aroma Beads, Bath Bombs, Perfume & Flavoring Oil for Lip Gloss - Essential Oils with Fruity Scents (10ml) • Amazon Business $18.99 1 $18.99
SUNYAY 12x80 inch Natural Coco Liner Roll Coconut Coir Liner Sheets Coco Mat for Planter Window Box Flower Basket Garden Decoration Animal Pet Pad Liner • Amazon Business $13.99 1 $13.99
OBSGUMU 3 Pack Silicone Soap Molds, 6 Cavities Flower Making Mold, Included Rectangle Shape Supplies, Perfect for Handmade Soaps, Homemade Chocolate • Amazon Business $9.99 1 $9.99
Sow Right Seeds - Flower Seed Garden Collection for Planting - 5 Packets Includes Marigold, Zinnia, Sunflower, Cape Daisy, and Cosmos - Wonderful Gardening Gift • Amazon Business $9.88 1 $9.88
Sow Right Seeds - Flower Seed Garden Collection for Planting - 5 Packets Includes Marigold, Zinnia, Sunflower, Cape Daisy, and Cosmos - Wonderful Gardening Gift • Amazon Business $9.88 1 $9.88

Materials cost

$356.68

Vendor shipping charges

FREE

Sales tax

$32.64

3rd party payment processing fee

$5.35

Fulfillment labor & materials

$30.00

Total project cost

$424.67

Suggested donation to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

$74.94

Total project goal

$499.61

How we calculate what's needed

Total project goal

$499.61

1 Donor

-$499.61

Donations toward project cost

-$424.67

Donations to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

-$74.94

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$0.00

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