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Mrs. Lopez-Gill from Chicago IL is requesting materials related to food, clothing & hygiene through DonorsChoose, the most trusted classroom funding site for teachers.

Color Can Be a Great Motivator

Help me give my students Brown Boy Joy and My Brown Skin books, More Than Peach Multicultural Browndages, and some kid-size masks.

  • $504 goal

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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

I work in a west-side school in a large city in Illinois with 98% free lunch. My students are very high-energy and spirited, and super-excited to come to class online. And now, with COVID-19, we are back at school learning in a new normal, which is somewhat challenging for our 4-year-olds. My students are early learners who are catching on to concepts quickly.

My students are up for any challenges and we want to give them some support to help them become safe, healthy productive citizens, ever-growing learners, and competent people.

My Project

With students coming to school, they are going through disposable masks like water. They get wet, mixed up, and lost often so to have a few more would really ease the tension of searching for masks. We are doing a lot of social-emotional learning in class and so Brown Boy Joy and the other books will give students some positive thoughts and things to read and learn about at home and in class. We are also doing Drop Everything and Read so having multiple copies of two of the books would be great. We also would love to have some crayons that are more shades than black and brown to represent our students' skin tones as we draw pictures for stories.

Mrs. Lopez-Gill
Grades PreK-2

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Where Your Donation Goes

Materials Cost Quantity Total
Brown Boy Joy • DonorsChoose Featured Favorites $11.00 7 $77.00
My Brown Skin • DonorsChoose Featured Favorites $11.00 7 $77.00
More Than Peach Multicultural and Rainbow Crayon Combo Pack with Postcard • DonorsChoose Featured Favorites $5.00 15 $75.00
Browndages Assorted Skin Tone Bandages • DonorsChoose Featured Favorites $3.99 12 $47.88
3 Ply Children Masks with Dinosaur Design • DonorsChoose Featured Favorites $14.00 2 $28.00
The ABCs of Black History • DonorsChoose Featured Favorites $10.00 2 $20.00
Timelines from Black History Leaders Legends Legacies • DonorsChoose Featured Favorites $19.00 1 $19.00
50 pack of 3 Ply Disposable Kids Face Masks • DonorsChoose Featured Favorites $17.00 1 $17.00
Darlying and Co ABC Affirmation Flash Cards • DonorsChoose Featured Favorites $15.00 1 $15.00
An ABC of Equality • DonorsChoose Featured Favorites $11.00 1 $11.00

Materials cost

$386.88

Vendor shipping charges

$5.00

Sales tax

$0.00

3rd party payment processing fee

$5.80

Fulfillment labor & materials

$30.00

Total project cost

$427.68

Suggested donation to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

$75.47

Total project goal

$503.15

How we calculate what's needed

Total project goal

$503.15

11 Donors

-$485.51

Donations toward project cost

-$427.68

Donations to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

-$57.83

Excluded support for DonorsChoose

-$17.64

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$0.00

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