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Mr. Distel from Chicago, IL is requesting flexible seating through DonorsChoose, the most trusted classroom funding site for teachers.

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Sharing Is Caring (but More Drums Are Really Awesome!)

Help me give my students 3 drums to fill out our set of Remo Tubanos

FULLY FUNDED! Mr. Distel's classroom raised $963

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 Project

I am hoping to fund three new drums for my K-8 music class. I was lucky enough to have my first project funded through www.donorschoose.org and I received 3 of the best drums for young musicians!

Remo Tubano drums are used in classrooms all over the world and they certainly have made a difference in our music classes as our students get the chance to play these wonderful sounding instruments.

The only thing that could be better is...TO HAVE MORE OF THEM! If you remember the excitement the first time you were able to play a cool instrument in music class, you will understand how these young musicians light up when they see me bring out the tubanos in the middle of class! I hear them exclaim, "We get to play drums today?"

With 3 more of these drums in my classroom, this larger set would give more opportunities for them to play together and involve more kids on the drums EVERYONE wants to play. This project would fund two of the middle-sized tubanos (12") and one of the large-sized tubano (14") to bring our total number of tubanos to six.

Mr. Distel Goethe Elementary School Grades 3-5

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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.

Chicago, IL View local requests

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

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Where Your Donation Goes

Where your donation goes
Materials Cost Quantity Total
Remo TUBANO®, Drumkey Tuned, 12" Diameter, 27" Height, Fabric Kintekloth • Amazon Business $258.95 2 $517.90
Remo TU1114PM Remo Tubano 27X14 Kintekloth • Amazon Business $258.95 1 $258.95

Materials cost

$776.85

Vendor shipping charges

 FREE

Sales tax

 $0.00

3rd party payment processing fee

$11.65

Fulfillment labor & materials

$30.00

Total project cost

$818.50

Suggested donation to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

$144.44

Total project goal

$962.94

How we calculate what's needed

Total project goal

 $962.94

4 Donors

-$687.75

Donations toward project cost

-$639.00

Donations to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

-$48.75

match offer

-$211.18

Match offer toward project cost

-$179.50

Match offer to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

-$31.68

Excluded support for DonorsChoose

-$64.01

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 $0.00

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