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Ms. Jillian from New York, NY is requesting technology through DonorsChoose, the most trusted classroom funding site for teachers.

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Help Make Financial Literacy Come Alive for My Students!

My students need computers to track budgets and work through financial literacy curriculum.

FULLY FUNDED! Ms. Jillian's classroom raised $1,944

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My Students

My students have a hunger for knowledge of the world they live in. I have never met a group of students so committed to understanding the world they live in by understanding how systems work. Financial literacy is one of those systems we dive into.

My students are an amazing group of middle scholars in Harlem, NY.

They are active members of both their school community, and the larger community. These students seek out opportunities to engage in their curricular materials outside the classroom, in their daily lives.

My Project

My school community is committed to creating scholars who are critical thinkers. In order to achieve this goal for all students, we as educators seek to share curriculum that allows students to do more than just read from a textbook. For this reason, students have begun keeping tabs of their personal budgets. We use Google forms to create individual budget sheets, as well as a class "savings goal" where we put our spare change to community use. Students will also need Internet via reliable chromebooks to interact with online programs such as the financial literacy portal created by ABC Kids. These resources will allow me to differentiate my instruction to meet my students needs. In having the mac in the classroom, students can also share our class "savings goal" progress with a Keynote quarterly report.

Your donations will significantly change the lives of my students.

They will be able to interact with financial literacy in ways that they have not been able to at this point in time. Opportunities for students to get out of the textbook that keeps their work individualized, and into a more interactive setting that will allow them to learn how to work with others, along with technology, will better prepare them for rigorous work to come.

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New York, NY
Grades 6-8
Financial Literacy
Economics
Technology
Nearly all students from low‑income households

Ms. Jillian Thurgood Marshall Academy Grades 6-8

Celebrate Black teachers and kids! This project supports a Black teacher or a school where the majority of students are Black.

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This project will directly impact historically underfunded classrooms.

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Nearly all 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

90 students impacted 13donors

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Materials Cost Quantity Total

Apple� - MacBook Air� - 13.3'Display - Intel Core i5 - 4GB Memory - 256GB Flash Storage - Silver • Best Buy Education $1,199.99 1 $1,199.99

Asus - 11.6'Chromebook - Intel Celeron - 2GB Memory - 16GB Flash (eMMC) Memory - Black • Best Buy Education $198.87 2 $397.74

Materials cost			$1,597.73
Vendor shipping charges			FREE
Sales tax			$0.00
3rd party payment processing fee			$23.97
Fulfillment labor & materials			$30.00
Total project cost			$1,651.70
Suggested donation to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms			$291.48
Total project goal			$1,943.18
How we calculate what's needed
Total project goal			$1,943.18
10 Donors			-$784.00
Donations toward project cost			-$675.40
Donations to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms			-$108.60
match offer			-$1,148.59
Match offer toward project cost			-$976.30
Match offer to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms			-$172.29
Excluded support for DonorsChoose			-$10.59
Still needed View calculation Hide calculation			$0.00

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This teacher needs your help!

Help Make Financial Literacy Come Alive for My Students!

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