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Ms. Duenas from Los Angeles, CA is requesting books through DonorsChoose, the most trusted classroom funding site for teachers.

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Inspiring Girls to Become Inspiring Women!

My students need a variety of books about important women in history!

FULLY FUNDED! Ms. Duenas's classroom raised $371

This project is fully funded

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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

Our school is a tuition-free, public charter elementary school located in East Los Angeles. The mission of our school is to teach the knowledge and skills, nurture the confidence and character, and inspire the passion needed for students to achieve their goals, excel in the competitive world, and positively impact the community through excellence in thought and action. Our school has earned the California Distinguished School award and has been named a National Blue Ribbon School as well.

Children need role models to look up to.

Students enjoy learning about important people who accomplished incredible goals and changed history. However, classroom libraries do not always have these types of books. Books about amazing women who demonstrated bravery and grit need to be more prevalent in schools.

My Project

Students love reading about historical heroes and inspiring figures. It is important for all students to read about the women who have helped change the world. It is especially important for girls to have role models to look up to.

Now more than ever, we need to build the confidence in girls to become the future change-makers of the world.

We do that by having them read about Jane Goodall, Ada Lovelace, Rosa Parks, Harriet Tubman, Dolores Huerta, Sally Ride, Mae Jemison, Katherine Johnson, Misty Copeland, Patricia Bath, Sonia Sotomayor and more. Girls need to remember they too can demonstrate the courage to forge their own path in life, just like the women who came before them.

Having books about inspiring women will help inspire young girls to become the best person they can be and help make the world a better place.

Ms. Duenas KIPP Raices Academy Grades PreK-2

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This project directly supports students at a historically underfunded school. Learn more about our Equity Focus.

This project will directly impact historically underfunded classrooms.

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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

22 students impacted 2donors

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Where your donation goes
Materials Cost Quantity Total
Dolores Huerta: A Hero to Migrant Workers • Amazon Business $15.50 1 $15.50
Separate Is Never Equal: Sylvia Mendez and Her Family’s Fight for Desegregation (Jane Addams Award Book (Awards)) • Amazon Business $15.45 1 $15.45
Anthology of Amazing Women: Trailblazers Who Dared to Be Different • Amazon Business $15.21 1 $15.21
The Watcher: Jane Goodall's Life with the Chimps • Amazon Business $14.88 1 $14.88
Frida Kahlo and Her Animalitos • Amazon Business $14.36 1 $14.36
Hidden Figures: The True Story of Four Black Women and the Space Race • Amazon Business $13.64 1 $13.64
Mae Among the Stars • Amazon Business $12.75 1 $12.75
Margaret and the Moon • Amazon Business $12.59 1 $12.59
The Doctor with an Eye for Eyes: The Story of Dr. Patricia Bath (Amazing Scientists) • Amazon Business $12.32 1 $12.32
Ada Lovelace, Poet of Science: The First Computer Programmer • Amazon Business $11.98 1 $11.98
Grace Hopper: Queen of Computer Code (People Who Shaped Our World) • Amazon Business $11.98 1 $11.98
Little Leaders: Bold Women in Black History • Amazon Business $11.68 1 $11.68
Women in Sports: 50 Fearless Athletes Who Played to Win • Amazon Business $11.55 1 $11.55
I am Sacagawea (Ordinary People Change the World) • Amazon Business $11.38 1 $11.38
The Girl Who Thought in Pictures: The Story of Dr. Temple Grandin (Amazing Scientists) • Amazon Business $11.09 1 $11.09
I am Rosa Parks (Ordinary People Change the World) • Amazon Business $10.43 1 $10.43
Women in Science: 50 Fearless Pioneers Who Changed the World • Amazon Business $10.32 1 $10.32
Elizabeth Leads the Way: Elizabeth Cady Stanton and the Right to Vote • Amazon Business $5.08 1 $5.08
National Geographic Readers: Helen Keller (Level 2) (Readers Bios) • Amazon Business $4.74 1 $4.74
National Geographic Readers: Rosa Parks (Readers Bios) • Amazon Business $3.99 1 $3.99
Misty Copeland (You Should Meet) • Amazon Business $3.99 1 $3.99
Mae Jemison (You Should Meet) • Amazon Business $3.99 1 $3.99
Scholastic Reader Level 3: When I Grow Up: Sally Ride • Amazon Business $3.99 1 $3.99
National Geographic Readers: Sonia Sotomayor (Readers Bios) • Amazon Business $3.74 1 $3.74
Ballerina Dreams: From Orphan to Dancer (Step Into Reading, Step 4) • Amazon Business $3.24 1 $3.24
When I Grow Up: Misty Copeland (Scholastic Reader, Level 3) • Amazon Business $2.89 1 $2.89
Women Who Launched the Computer Age (You Should Meet) • Amazon Business $2.57 1 $2.57
Katherine Johnson (You Should Meet) • Amazon Business $2.23 1 $2.23

Materials cost

$257.56

Vendor shipping charges

 FREE

Sales tax

 $23.57

3rd party payment processing fee

$3.86

Fulfillment labor & materials

$30.00

Total project cost

$314.99

Suggested donation to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

$55.59

Total project goal

$370.58

How we calculate what's needed

Total project goal

 $370.58

2 Donors

-$370.58

Donations toward project cost

-$314.99

Donations to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

-$55.59

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