This nonprofit matches public school teachers with classroom needs with donors wishing to fund education projects.
Description of user contribution system
DonorsChoose intermediates between classroom teachers who need donations to fund their classroom activities and donors who want to fund the work of individual teachers.
Teachers first describe their specific need on the DonorChoose site. Then prospective donors can peruse the needs and select the one(s) they wish to fund. This is summarized by the site’s tagline: Teachers ask. You choose. Students learn.
Benefits for the users
Teachers get funds they need from donors they would not be able to find by themselves. Donors get to choose the need they most wish to fund from a broad array of different educational needs.
Benefits for the creators of the system
As a nonprofit, DonorsChoose doesn't benefit in the traditional sense (i.e., profit) from the system, but it does benefit by seeing its mission carried out: the real beneficiaries are the students and teachers in the public school system.
History of the idea
DonorsChoose.org was started in 2000 by Charles Best, a public school teacher in the Bronx.
Scale
The DonorsChoose site tracks the cumulative results: as of September 14, 2008 over $23 million in donations benefiting 1.4 million students. It is now open to every public school in the U.S.
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