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Coach Spencer from Houston TX is requesting sports & exercise equipment through DonorsChoose, the most trusted classroom funding site for teachers.

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Dribbling Equality into the Future

Help me give my students the basketball equipment it takes to be given a fair opportunity to learn the game of basketball!

  • $531 goal

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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.

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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

My school is a special place because it is one of the most diverse schools in the Houston Independent School District. Our school mission revolves around accepting diversity! We have used sports to connect our students and have committed to being a healthy campus. In recent months, we have been challenged as a school and community, due to the budget crisis. Although we have been able to use creativity in our curriculum we are in desperate need of teaching resources.

The low-income students we have at our school have many challenges outside of school, that makes the chance for an equal opportunity even more of a vital necessity.

We are now in a scramble to find equipment that intrigues kids to stay healthy! Accommodating our large number of students has become even more of an untouchable situation because of our lack of resources. Through this tough situation we have stuck together and managed to create a limited learning environment, but need the community's help!

My Project

During the financial budget crisis, I started noticing the disappearing eagerness to learn because of the lack of resources. The fact is that these students have daily challenges many of us won't understand, that they go home to daily. These students also are used to having the bare minimum, instead of quality learning resources. My goals are to start 2020 off with a positive vision for the students to focus on a vision of equality! I want to provide both girls and boys basketball equipment for each P.E. class to use during our long basketball lessons in the Spring.

Providing new basketball equipment and basketballs will give these students an interesting path for developing knowledge about the game of basketball.

The quality equipment will allow these kids to experience, and open their eyes to new knowledge. I have to provide these students with new and exciting ways to exercise in order to give them a fresh feeling for the future! The equipment I chose will allow the kids to do several unique new experiences in maintaining a healthy lifestyle. These goals will transition over to success in the classroom. During these tough times, there is no doubt that support and the sense of equality will get these less fortunate students back on their way to being successful!

Coach Spencer
Grades 6-8

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Where Your Donation Goes

Where your donation goes
Materials Cost Quantity Total
Lifetime Impact 44 Portable Basketball Hoop • DICK'S Sporting Goods $114.99 2 $229.98
Spalding NBA Tack Soft Basketball (28.5") • DICK'S Sporting Goods $29.99 4 $119.96
Wilson Evolution Official Basketball (29.5") • DICK'S Sporting Goods $64.99 1 $64.99

Materials cost

$414.93

Vendor shipping charges

 FREE

Sales tax

 $0.00

3rd party payment processing fee

$6.22

Fulfillment labor & materials

$30.00

Total project cost

$451.15

Suggested donation to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

$79.61

Total project goal

$530.76

How we calculate what's needed

Total project goal

 $530.76

2 Donors

-$233.08

Donations toward project cost

-$225.58

Donations to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

-$7.50

match offer

-$265.38

Match offer toward project cost

-$225.57

Match offer to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

-$39.81

Excluded support for DonorsChoose

-$32.31

Still needed View calculationHide calculation

 $0.00

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