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Mr. Levy from Camden NJ is requesting classroom basics through DonorsChoose, the most trusted classroom funding site for teachers.

Financial Literacy Through Student Run Cafe

Help me give my students copy paper, stirrers, ink, and coffee cups for our school cafe that is run by our life skills students.

  • $387 goal

Hooray! This project is fully funded

Hooray! This project is fully funded

Celebrating Hispanic & Latinx Heritage Month

Celebrate Hispanic & Latinx Heritage Month

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.

My Students

Remember reading that first book that helped you develop a love of reading? Do you remember those integrated art lessons during math or history class?

My students are from one of the poorest and most violent cities in the country.

Every day they strive to broaden their horizons and reach for the stars. For many, school is the only safe haven they know. I work to teach them that there is a bigger world out there than the one they see every day, that they matter, and that they will always have a safe place to explore the world around them in our classroom.

My Project

We just opened up a life skills program here for our most needy students. Many of these kids have Cognitive Disabilities, Autism, and/or Physical Disabilities that prevent them from being able to function independently within the greater community.

Our program intends to teach these kids the adaptive and functional skills to integrate into the larger community and to lead productive and fulfilling lives where they are contributing to society.

Our life skills program is brand new. We have established a community based instructional program where students work outside in the community developing adaptive skills so that they can function independently within the community. They learn how to take public transportation, budget their money, juniors and seniors go out to work twice a week and receive pay checks. The program is promotes inclusion regardless of the students’ disability.

Our goal is to open a room, which has already be designated, as a life skills room where the kids can learn to cook and serve coffee to staff. The long term goal is to prepare our kids for independent lives outside of the school. After we arm them with the adaptive and functional skills to participate as productive citizens within the community, we have several local agencies that help support our kids transition to adulthood by working with the students and their families to provide housing, work as well as providing these students with job training opportunities. The supples such as the ink, paper, stirrers, and coffee cups are all necessary for the every day running of this cafe.

Mr. Levy
Grades 9-12

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Where Your Donation Goes

Materials Cost Quantity Total
Staples Copy Paper, 20 Lb., 92 Bright, 8 1/2" x 11", White, 10-Ream Case (135848) • Staples Advantage $35.78 3 $107.34
HP 952 Standard CMY/952XL High Yield Black Ink Cartridge Multi-pack (4 cart per pack) • Quill.com $98.09 1 $98.09
Dixie PerfecTouch Insulated Hot Cup by GP PRO, 12 oz., Coffee Haze, 500/Carton (5342DX) • Quill.com $56.09 1 $56.09
Dixie Plastic Stirrer 5", White/Red Stripe, 10,000/Carton (HS5CC) • Quill.com $32.29 1 $32.29

Materials cost

$293.81

Vendor shipping charges

FREE

Sales tax

$0.00

3rd party payment processing fee

$4.41

Fulfillment labor & materials

$30.00

Total project cost

$328.22

Suggested donation to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

$57.92

Total project goal

$386.14

How we calculate what's needed

Total project goal

$386.14

4 Donors

-$198.06

Donations toward project cost

-$168.36

Donations to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

-$29.70

match offer

-$188.06

Match offer toward project cost

-$159.85

Match offer to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

-$28.21

Excluded support for DonorsChoose

-$0.01

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$0.00

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