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Ms. Clark from Tarzana, CA is requesting books through DonorsChoose, the most trusted classroom funding site for teachers.

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Ms. Clark's classroom raised $439

Diverse Take Home Books for Diverse Learners

Help me give my students diverse books that illustrate diversity, equity, and anti-racism and bags to store them in.

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Ms. Clark Nestle Avenue Charter Elementary School
Tarzana, CA Grades PreK-2

My Students

Enthusiastic, energetic, empathetic, creative, inclusive, and motivated are a few words that come to mind when thinking about the learners in my class. As an intervention teacher, I am given the opportunity to work with different students in a range of grades. I feel incredibly grateful to be able to interact with students that are curious, passionate, and so thoughtful. These students desire to succeed, and I consider it a gift that I am allowed to coach them and provide new pathways to success.

"The innocence of children is what makes them stand out as a shining example to the rest of mankind." -Kurt Chambers

My Project

Access to interesting, diverse books of various reading levels and that promote diversity, inclusion, and anti-racism, is a must in keeping adolescents engaged in and growing a love for reading. My goal, as a teacher, is to make kids better readers and I am able to do that when I can provide students with diverse books that represent them and that are on their reading level.

My dream is for students to struggle to make a book choice not because there is not anything they want to read, but because there are so many books they want to get their hands on.

Giving children a place to store books that they have chosen helps them stay motivated to read. The more motivated they are to read, the better readers they become. The books bags are needed to store our books in and keep them in tip-top shape. These bags are durable and will last us many years to come. Having these materials will help support my students in becoming lifetime readers!

This project will directly impact historically underfunded classrooms.

More than half of students from low‑income households

50 students impacted 14 donors
Ms. Clark Nestle Avenue Charter Elementary School Grades PreK-2

This project will directly impact historically underfunded classrooms.

Tarzana, CA View local requests

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

50 students impacted 14donors

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Where Your Donation Goes

Where your donation goes
Materials Cost Quantity Total
GG834X SeeInside Storage Pouch Set of 10 • Lakeshore Learning Materials $58.99 2 $117.98
Giant Steps to Change the World • AKJ Education $13.86 1 $13.86
I Dissent • AKJ Education $13.86 1 $13.86
Dissenter on the Bench • AKJ Education $13.86 1 $13.86
A Taste of Colored Water • AKJ Education $13.86 1 $13.86
Separate Is Never Equal • AKJ Education $13.27 1 $13.27
Princess Hair • AKJ Education $13.13 1 $13.13
I Walk with Vanessa: A Story About a Simple Act of Kindness • AKJ Education $13.13 1 $13.13
Maybe Something Beautiful • AKJ Education $13.13 1 $13.13
The Pink Hat • AKJ Education $13.13 1 $13.13
Hidden Figures • AKJ Education $13.13 1 $13.13
A Bike Like Sergio's • AKJ Education $11.67 1 $11.67
The Crossover • AKJ Education $7.98 1 $7.98
Out of My Mind • AKJ Education $6.99 1 $6.99
The Book Thief • AKJ Education $6.98 1 $6.98
Inside Out and Back Again • AKJ Education $6.29 1 $6.29
Fish in a Tree • AKJ Education $6.28 1 $6.28
Those Shoes • AKJ Education $5.59 1 $5.59

Materials cost

$304.12

Vendor shipping charges

 $6.00

Sales tax

 $27.83

3rd party payment processing fee

$4.56

Fulfillment labor & materials

$30.00

Total project cost

$372.51

Suggested donation to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

$65.74

Total project goal

$438.25

How we calculate what's needed

Total project goal

 $438.25

12 Donors

-$214.44

Donations toward project cost

-$190.22

Donations to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

-$24.22

match offer

-$214.46

Match offer toward project cost

-$182.29

Match offer to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

-$32.17

Excluded support for DonorsChoose

-$9.35

Still needed View calculationHide calculation

 $0.00

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