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Mr. LeProtto from Paterson, NJ is requesting materials related to food, clothing & hygiene through DonorsChoose, the most trusted classroom funding site for teachers.

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Sustainability For Our Community

Help me give my students a chance for my students to spread the word about sustainability.

FULLY FUNDED! Mr. LeProtto's classroom raised $496

This project is fully funded

My Project

With your help, my students can learn about the significance of water and the role it plays in our environment and personal lives. Learning about the earth and the need to use less plastic is a lesson we are working on. My intention is to develop an activity to get students thinking about the many ways that people use freshwater, and how we can conserve this precious and fundamental natural resource. We will discuss issues related to clean water availability, analyze water-use data, and start to think about how they consume and can conserve water. All with the idea of replacing plastic water bottles with tumblers.

Using these tumblers will be a concrete way of measuring not only drinking water but saving the plastic that would've been used with ordinary water bottles.

We would love to give thee out to not only our school community, but others within our neighborhood. We will spread our knowledge with our school community and have more students use these reusable tumblers and help our environment. Please help.

Mr. LeProtto Norman S Weir Elementary School Grades 6-8

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

Equity Focus

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

This project will directly impact historically underfunded classrooms.

Paterson, NJ View local requests

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

35 students impacted 1donor

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Where Your Donation Goes

Materials Cost Quantity Total
Kocdam 12pack Sublimation Glass Cups with Bamboo Lids and Straws, Frosted 16oz Blanks Sublimation Beer Cans, Borosilicate Glasses, Sublimation Tumblers for Beer, Juice, Soda, Iced Coffee • Amazon Business $38.29 6 $229.74
Simply Cool Reusable Grocery Bags Eco-Friendly - Large Reusable Shopping Bags, Heavy Duty Grocery Bags, 14.5"x14"x6.6" Foldable, Tote Bags Bulk (50 Pack, Cream) • Amazon Business $52.46 1 $52.46
Sublimation Paper 100 Sheets 8.5 x 11 Inches 125gsm, for Any Inkjet Printer with Sublimation Ink Epson, Sawgrass, Heat Transfer Sublimation for Mugs T-shirts Light Fabric • Amazon Business $15.49 2 $30.98
HTVRONT Blue Glitter HTV Heat Transfer Vinyl Rolls - 10" x 8ft Blue Glitter HTV Vinyl for Shirts, Glitter Iron on Vinyl for All Cutter Machine - Easy to Cut & Weed for Heat Vinyl Design (Sky Blue) • Amazon Business $15.82 1 $15.82
HTVRONT Black Heat Transfer Vinyl Rolls - 12" x 20ft Black Iron on Vinyl for Shirts, Black Iron on for All Cutter Machine - Easy to Cut & Weed for Craft Heat Vinyl Design • Amazon Business $15.29 1 $15.29
HTVRONT Heat Transfer Vinyl White HTV Rolls - 12" x 20ft White Iron on Vinyl for All Cutter Machine, White HTV Vinyl for Shirts - Easy to Cut & Weed for Heat Vinyl Design • Amazon Business $15.29 1 $15.29
MEBMIK 4 Rolls 20mm x33m(108ft) Blue Heat Tape High Temperature Heat Resistant Tape Heat Transfer Tape for Heat Sublimation Press Vinyl,No Residue • Amazon Business $13.59 1 $13.59
PYD Life 0.8 Inch x 108 Ft Sublimation Blanks Thermal Tape,Heat Tape,High Temp Tape,Up to 250℃(480℉) for Tumbler Sublimation Print,Heat Transfer Tape,Heat Vinyl Press Tape (4, Blue, 0.8" x 108') • Amazon Business $11.99 1 $11.99

Materials cost

$385.16

Vendor shipping charges

FREE

Sales tax

$0.00

3rd party payment processing fee

$5.78

Fulfillment labor & materials

$30.00

Total project cost

$420.94

Suggested donation to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

$74.28

Total project goal

$495.22

How we calculate what's needed

Total project goal

$495.22

1 Donor

-$495.22

Donations toward project cost

-$420.94

Donations to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

-$74.28

Still needed View calculationHide calculation

$0.00

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