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Ms. Whitman from Mesa AZ is requesting flexible seating through DonorsChoose, the most trusted classroom funding site for teachers.

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Strong Seating for Success!

Help me give my students this fun and colorful new seating for our classroom!

  • $981 goal

Hooray! This project is fully funded

Hooray! This project is fully funded

My Students

I teach at a title one school in Mesa, Arizona. Our school provides free breakfast to all families and the majority of our students are also provided free lunches as well. We run a program sending about 1/4 of our families home with food over the weekends every week.

I have already spent hundreds of dollars to revamp my classroom as much as possible on my own to turn it into a more comfortable “home” environment that many of them long for.

I want to make this a room these kids not only flourish academically in, but feel comfortable and happy emotionally as well. I just need help to get the last few things I cannot afford on my own for these wonderful little people!

My Project

These stools are the perfect solution for our classroom seating! I have worked hard to turn my classroom into a place that feels more like a home than a classroom. I have thrown out the idea of a traditional classroom by getting rid of the traditional desks and chairs. I built a small house structure in the corner of my room for a reading nook, traded desks in with a grant to fund new tables with dry erase tops, used my filing cabinets to build a small sanctuary with curtains, and many other wonderful things. Now I am asking for your help to order these stools!

Ms. Whitman
Grades PreK-2

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Materials Cost Quantity Total
Trattoria 18" Stool in Aqua (Set of 4) • walmart $123.27 6 $739.62

Materials cost

$739.62

Vendor shipping charges

 FREE

Sales tax

 $52.88

3rd party payment processing fee

$11.09

Fulfillment labor & materials

$30.00

Total project cost

$833.59

Suggested donation to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

$147.10

Total project goal

$980.69

How we calculate what's needed

Total project goal

 $980.69

15 Donors

-$769.39

Donations toward project cost

-$706.09

Donations to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

-$63.30

match offer

-$150.00

Match offer toward project cost

-$127.50

Match offer to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

-$22.50

Excluded support for DonorsChoose

-$61.30

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 $0.00

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