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
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.

See this teacher's page

Mrs. Van Orden from Pleasant View UT is requesting books through DonorsChoose, the most trusted classroom funding site for teachers.

Bringing Justice and Mercy to the Classroom

My students need copies of the non-fiction book "Just Mercy" by Bryan Stevenson.

  • $573 goal

Hooray! This project is fully funded

Hooray! This project is fully funded

My Students

My students are in a suburban high school that has a mixture of socioeconomic and racial diversity. As our boundaries have changed recently, we are going through some "growing pains" in students not always being as accepting of others as they should.

I want to help my students change the world.

Through literature (and your help), I can do that. I can show them new worlds and new ways of thinking, and I can help them reach out to others in acceptance and understanding. Thank you for your consideration.

My Project

This book, "Just Mercy: A Story of Justice and Redemption" will bring much needed diversity to our classroom and school curriculum. Too much of our current literature is based on one point of view. I would like to change that.

Everyone needs to feel accepted, and this book will help spread that acceptance.

This book teaches about diversity, poverty, race, the criminal justice system, etc: all important topics for future voters to read about and ponder.

Students may not consider all of the factors that go into an American being placed on death row, and whether or not that person can ever get off death row. This book will enlighten students on those issues.

Mrs. Van Orden
Grades 9-12

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 Mrs. Van Orden is requesting.

See our finances

TEACHERS, FEELING INSPIRED?

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

Where Your Donation Goes

Materials Cost Quantity Total
Just Mercy: A Story of Justice and Redemption • Amazon Business $8.82 51 $449.82

Materials cost

$449.82

Vendor shipping charges

FREE

Sales tax

$0.00

3rd party payment processing fee

$6.75

Fulfillment labor & materials

$30.00

Total project cost

$486.57

Suggested donation to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

$85.87

Total project goal

$572.44

How we calculate what's needed

Total project goal

$572.44

7 Donors

-$493.61

Donations toward project cost

-$427.07

Donations to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

-$66.54

match offer

-$70.00

Match offer toward project cost

-$59.50

Match offer to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

-$10.50

Excluded support for DonorsChoose

-$8.83

Still needed View calculationHide calculation

$0.00

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

View complete list Show less

Support a teacher
near you!

Explore a map with requests from teachers across the country.

View map of requests

Project Activity

{"pmaHash":"","schoolCity":"Pleasant View","showProjectRecommendations":true,"teachersOnPage":[3226856],"isTeacherViewingTheirOwnProject":false,"hideTeacherDetails":false,"schoolState":"UT","teacherPossessivePronoun":"her","PMsManager":null,"schoolGradeType":{"id":4,"name":"High School"},"TeacherPMForms":{},"proposalId":3311036,"proposalMessageFormModel":null,"numActiveProjects":0,"completingDonationAmount":0,"teacherHasClassroomPhoto":true,"proposalURL":"https://www.donorschoose.org/project/bringing-justice-and-mercy-to-the-classr/3311036/","verifyShowPhotos":"","eligibleToBeCopied":false,"mayHaveReplacements":true,"numStudents":100,"teacherScreenName":"Mrs. Van Orden","isEquityFocus":false,"authorIds":{"3226856":{"owner":"Mrs. Van Orden","donationSalutations":{}}},"displayedPercentFunded":1.0,"proposalsOnPage":[3311036],"proposalHash":"1348660159","isApplePayMobileOnly":true,"progressBarPercentage":100.00,"pmaId":"","teacherProfilePhotoURL":"https://storage.donorschoose.net/dc_prod/images/teacher/profile/272x272/tp3226856_272x272.jpg?width=136&height=136&fit=bounds&auto=webp&t=1526508082058","teacherHasProfilePhoto":true,"currentWorkflowStatusCode":21,"teacherChallengeId":20671948,"photosPublished":true,"queryString":"","DonorPMForm":null,"isApplePayEnabled":true,"fundedByTarget":false,"activeProject":null,"donorIdsForImpactPhotoCheck":["NTQxMjg4Nw==","NDQyMTU3Nw==","NTQxOTA5NA==","NTQxMjk0MQ==","NTI3NDg4Nw==","MzMzMzUwOQ==","MzIyNjg1Ng==","NDEzNzI1Mg=="],"teacherId":3226856,"schoolCounty":"Weber","fullyFunded":true,"isStudentLed":false,"isExpired":true,"schoolStateObj":{"code":"UT","name":"Utah"}}