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Mrs. Laura Garza from Brownsville, TX is requesting sports & exercise equipment through DonorsChoose, the most trusted classroom funding site for teachers.

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Wired Up!

Help me give my students an easier way to manage their work materials with the coil binding machine all their work will be organized and they would not have anything that will obstruct them from writing.

FULLY FUNDED! Mrs. Laura Garza's classroom raised $269

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 Project

This project will help my students keep all their work organized and since they are bearly learning how to write and color with this coil nothing will be obstructing their tiny hands.

The books I selected will be part of our classroom library for them to enjoy.

I also selected books that work with Novel effect this is an app that takes ready to another level, I know my students will enjoy each and one of them as they go into a journey with each and one of the characters in these books.

Mrs. Laura Garza Pena Elementary School Grades PreK-2

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.

Brownsville, TX View local requests

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

25 students impacted 3donors

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Where Your Donation Goes

Materials Cost Quantity Total
PrintFinish Coilbind S-15 with Electric Coil Inserter Manual Coil Punch & Binding Machine Pitch 4:1 - Professionally Bind Presentations and Documents - Printfinish - Strong and durable machine • Amazon Business $154.89 1 $154.89
The Monsters' Monster • Amazon Business $16.37 1 $16.37
Brown Bear, Brown Bear, What Do You See? / Oso pardo, oso pardo, ¿qué ves ahí? (Bilingual board book - English / Spanish) • Amazon Business $8.99 1 $8.99
Sneezy the Snowman • Amazon Business $6.49 1 $6.49
Pete the Cat: Out of This World • Amazon Business $4.74 1 $4.74

Materials cost

$191.48

Vendor shipping charges

$4.08

Sales tax

$0.00

3rd party payment processing fee

$2.87

Fulfillment labor & materials

$30.00

Total project cost

$228.43

Suggested donation to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

$40.31

Total project goal

$268.74

How we calculate what's needed

Total project goal

$268.74

3 Donors

-$267.86

Donations toward project cost

-$228.43

Donations to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

-$39.43

Excluded support for DonorsChoose

-$0.88

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$0.00

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