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Books for Bears

Help me give my students books to read and expand their literacy skills and opportunities to go into our Bookworm Vending Machine!

  • $6,790 goal

Hooray! This project is fully funded

Hooray! This project is fully funded

My Students

Our rural New Hampshire school in Rumney, NH always has a need for great literature to read for the students!

The students are part of a small close knit community.

We are an extremely inclusive population of diverse learners. Our kids thrive when given the resources and potential!

A reward of a new book as a gift would truly enhance their education and their lives!

My Project

The moment my co-worker Carla and I saw the Inchy's Bookworm we knew we wanted it for our school in Rumney, NH!

A book vending machine is such a creative way to support readers and be used as a positive incentive.

Our school of 100 learners will absolutely love this machine! Each student will earn gold tokens for the book vending machine. Our machine will display words from our school motto, Caring, Respect, Responsibility, and Trust!

The story and mission of the Bookworm machine is so fitting for our school! We would love to increase our book engagement rate at our school. The bookworm will create amazing opportunities for our students to excel in their reading achievement and enrich their lives! The token reward connected to receiving the book gift will definitely link literacy and positive participation in our school.

We hope to make literacy a cornerstone of our students’ lives!

Mrs. Hancock and Mrs. Demler Learning Center
Grades 3-5

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Where Your Donation Goes

Materials Cost Quantity Total
Inchy's Bookworm Vending Machine • Global Vending Group $4,790.00 1 $4,790.00
Classroom Library Must-Haves: Grades 4-6 (DonorsChoose.org Exclusive) • Scholastic Magazines and Book Clubs $75.00 1 $75.00
Classroom Library Must-Haves: Grades PreK (DonorsChoose.org Exclusive) • Scholastic Magazines and Book Clubs $75.00 1 $75.00
Newbery Classroom Library Builder: Grades 3+ (DonorsChoose.org Exclusive) • Scholastic Magazines and Book Clubs $70.00 1 $70.00
Classroom Library Must-Haves: Grades 2-3 (DonorsChoose.org Exclusive) • Scholastic Magazines and Book Clubs $70.00 1 $70.00
Kindness Pack: Grades K-2 (DonorsChoose.org Exclusive) • Scholastic Magazines and Book Clubs $30.00 1 $30.00
STEAM Pack: Grades K-2 (DonorsChoose.org Exclusive) • Scholastic Magazines and Book Clubs $20.00 1 $20.00

Materials cost

$5,130.00

Vendor shipping charges

$534.00

Sales tax

$0.00

3rd party payment processing fee

$76.95

Fulfillment labor & materials

$30.00

Total project cost

$5,770.95

Suggested donation to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

$1,018.40

Total project goal

$6,789.35

How we calculate what's needed

Total project goal

$6,789.35

25 Donors

-$6,066.82

Donations toward project cost

-$5,159.80

Donations to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

-$907.02

match offer

-$719.00

Match offer toward project cost

-$611.15

Match offer to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

-$107.85

Excluded support for DonorsChoose

-$3.53

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$0.00

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Project Activity

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