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#1
nonprofit funding site for U.S. public school teachers. Wherever learning happens, help teachers and students with the resources they need to succeed.
We can’t believe that just happened. With the largest single donation in our history,
@Ripple
just funded EVERY SINGLE CLASSROOM PROJECT on our site. Happy
#BestSchoolDay
!
Just… wow. In one incredible day,
@GatesFoundation
and our generous community of donors supported nearly 10,000 teachers at over 7,000 schools across the country. What else can we say? THANK YOU!
Today is
#BestSchoolDay
, and
@Ripple
has kicked things off in style:
Last night, they gave an incredible $29 MILLION to fully fund every single classroom project on our site. Join the celebration:
Wow!
@EdSheeran
just donated $25,000 to fully fund 59 arts and music projects on DonorsChoose. Thanks to this gift, these teachers and their students will have resources to strum, paint, sing, and create!
The countdown has begun! ⌛ ⏲️ 🕰️
Tomorrow, starting at 7 am ET and while funds last, all donations to DonorsChoose projects will be matched 50% thanks to the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation.
Find a project and be first in line tomorrow!
#ClearTheLists
For over 27,000 classrooms,
#BestSchoolDay
is just beginning! After today, we’ll ship boxes across the country full of…
3,500 computers
2,800 packs of construction paper
980 class rugs
890 playground balls
270 calculators
95 fossils, rocks, and minerals
And much more!
Startling but true: in 2018, teachers are still spending billions of their own money on supplies for their classrooms. That's why
@GMA
is taking a look at what teachers really need—and rallying support for their work. You can help:
#GivingMyAllGMA
We're excited to be joining forces with
@support_a_teach
and the
#clearthelists
campaign! Check out our new giving page at . Today's a great day to help a teacher clear their list as they head back to school – donations are getting a 50% boost!
Today only, all donations will get a 50% back-to-school boost, thanks to our partners at the
@gatesfoundation
.
Help teachers get a great start to their year and support their classroom projects!
Today, an anonymous donor fully funded EVERY project requesting a school washer/dryer or closets where students can get hygiene supplies. In the spirit of Thanksgiving, thank you so much to teachers everywhere who help meet students' most basic needs!
If you want to have the best night, tune into
@colbertlateshow
tonight. Our friend
@StephenAtHome
has an announcement that might make your school day tomorrow a little more interesting...
“In 18 years of doing , we have, honestly, honestly, never been this excited. I would say it’s the dream coming true, except we never had this dream because it would have been too crazy to even say.”
#BestSchoolDay
Amazing news for teachers in West Virginia:
@Walmart
just fully funded EVERY SINGLE PROJECT! Let's celebrate the over 340 classrooms that now have exactly the tools they need for learning, from crayons and pencils to rugs, books, technology, and much more.
#WalmartHeartsTeachers
Great news from our friends
@ScotchProducts
: They just surprised 4,000 teachers with $25 gift cards to use on their own project, or to pay it forward to a fellow educator so they can tackle the school year ahead and
#RollWithIt
!
3.... 2.... 1... Blast off! 🚀 🚀
Today only: Every donation to a DonorsChoose project gets a 50% boost thanks to Bill Gates!
Show that you support our educators by giving to a project today — a donation of any size sends a powerful message:
While Funds Last: EVERY PROJECT is getting a back–to-school boost thanks to the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation! 📚🍎
Join us in ensuring every kid has the supplies they need to succeed. Help a classroom near you today:
#BackToSchool
#EducationForAll
We’re so excited to team up with
@GMA
to make sure EVERY teacher has the supplies they need to build a brighter future for their students.
#GivingMyAllGMA
Today only,
@gatesfoundation
is giving donations to every DonorsChoose project a BOOST to help teachers and students get ready to learn! Support a project, and your donation will be boosted by 50%:
Starting today, our friends at
@Googleorg
are matching donations to projects from Black and Latinx teachers, and projects from any teacher who requests inclusive classroom materials. Give and have your donation doubled:
Did you know that every guest on
@ColbertLateShow
gets a gift card that they can use to support a classroom on our site? This week's guest, the wonderful
@ColleenB123
, had a priceless reaction when she opened hers:
“A million students, overwhelmingly in low-income communities, are going to feel the impact of this gift within the next few weeks."
Check out the new
@nytimes
article about the impact of
#BestSchoolDay
and what
@Ripple
's donation means for classrooms!
🎉Exciting news! Today for
#TeacherAppreciationDay
, our friends at
@sonicdrivein
are matching donations to ALL projects on our site! Team up with SONIC and have your donation doubled:
This year,
#TeacherAppreciationWeek
is starting off with a splash! Our friends at
@Googleorg
are giving $2 million to
#KeepKidsLearning
, providing thousands of students across the country with resources to learn from home. On behalf of the 2,000 teachers benefitting: thank you!
Teachers are going above and beyond for student learning. Today, Craig Newmark is giving a boost to every Distance Learning Project on our site. Join us on social using
#RespectForTeachers
and tag
@CraigNewmark
to celebrate!
Thank you for making last school year our best yet!
255,247
classroom projects funded
766,519
citizen philanthropists mobilized
43,313
public schools reached
72,488
teachers with their first project funded
146,696
thank-you packages sent nationwide
This morning
@CraigNewmark
gave 40,000
@donorschoose
teachers a special gift! He’s showing his
#RespectForTeachers
by shouting out Emily Royer on behalf of her teacher friend, Kim Howell. Plus, he’s paying tribute to a teacher who changed his life, Anton Schulzki!
🎊 To celebrate the return of ABC's Abbott Elementary, DonorsChoose will be launching a special promo code that will double all donations up to $500,000, while funds last! 🎉
Post a project now to be included on January 10, when our team drops the code:
It takes hundreds of hours of planning and top secret hard work to pull off a surprise like
#BestSchoolDay
. Here’s a behind-the-scenes look at the moment our own team first found out about the exciting news!
All day, we're teaming up with
@GatesFoundation
to give your donations a back-to-school boost! Your $20 donation will become a $30 donation (or your $50 donation a $75 donation).
A box of crayons. A brand new book. A shiny microscope.
Got five minutes? Your can make sure a teacher has the tools they need to build a future for their students.
The final tally: During
@GMA
's
#GivingMyAllGMA
event, an incredible:
22,832 donors gave
$2,031,598 to classrooms,
fully funding 4,801 projects.
Thank you so much to GMA and everyone who helped bring these tools and experiences to so many classrooms!
Amazing news for teachers in Tulsa, OK:
@Walmart
just fully funded EVERY PROJECT in the city! Let's celebrate the 106 classrooms that now have exactly the tools they need for learning, from pencils and crayons to rugs, books, technology, and so much more.
#Walmartheartsteachers
School may look different this year, but supporting our teachers and students is more important than ever. Help teachers get what they need to keep their kids learning.
Our friends at
@TMobile
are turning April Fool’s on its head! Here’s how to get involved:
1. Thank a teacher using
#GiveThanksNotPranks
!
2. You’ll unlock $5 to support DonorsChoose teachers.
3. Teachers get what they need to help their students thrive!
Mark your calendars! On Tues., August 11, starting at 7am ET,
@GatesFoundation
is giving every donation to a DonorsChoose project a 50% "back-to-learning" boost! Your donation goes even further to help
#teachers
prepare for the school year ahead.
#backtoschool
#edchat
"On Wednesday, teachers created more than 15,600 projects on DonorsChoose, which beat the site's record for most projects created in an entire week."
Let's make every day the
#BestSchoolDay
for all of these teachers!
To celebrate
#DayOfTheGirl
, our friend
@CraigNewmark
just fully-funded 98 projects from teachers who are helping 13,000 girls across the USA build their STEM skills! These are our future coders, scientists, and engineers, and they all deserve the very best tools.
#STEMStories
Wow! Yesterday, over 45,000 donors showed up to support over 29,000 teachers! Thanks to a 50% boost from Bill Gates, we raised over $7.7 million for public school classrooms!
We're so grateful to our supporters. And to our DonorsChoose teachers — HAVE A GREAT SCHOOL YEAR! 🍎 🎓
For students,
#BestSchoolDay
means:
70,000 books 📚
15,000 art supplies 🖌️
6,200 pieces of lab equipment 🔬
2,300 musical instruments 🎷
Over a million smiles 😄
Today is the day! EVERY PROJECT on DonorsChoose will be getting a 50% boost thanks to Bill Gates!
Help teachers and students start the year with confidence by supporting a classroom of your choosing!
A thousand high-fives to our volunteer screening team! They've done some incredible work to get over 15,000 new projects live on the site in just a few days since
#BestSchoolDay
. This note is for you!
This school year, 94% of teachers will spend their own money on supplies for students. We believe they deserve better.
Here’s an easy way to take action, right now.
#BrighterFuture
We've been tossing around a few new synonyms for teacher that the thesaurus is currently missing. So far we have...
1. Life changer
2. Education expert
3. Architect of the future
4. Joy bringer
Any other ideas?
In the first 12 hours of our
@GatesFoundation
back-to-school boost, you’ve brought over 7,300 classroom projects to life! Let's shoot for the moon: Can we hit 10,000 by midnight?
Our community has hit an incredible milestone: you’ve funded the
#FirstMillion
classroom projects!
To celebrate, donations to every live DonorsChoose project are doubled tomorrow. Here’s to the next million!
All day. All donations matched.
We’re celebrating our community’s
#FirstMillion
funded classroom projects with a match on every live project, so there’s no better time to help teachers bring their next idea to life!
Our friends at
@BTWFoundation
are dedicated to helping students build a kinder, braver world. To help students in El Paso, TX, Dayton, OH, and Gilroy, CA start the school year with kindness, Born This Way Foundation just fully funded all 160 projects in these three cities.
(5/9) We’ll never forget March 28th, 2018: The day
@Ripple
funded every classroom project on our site, a true
#BestSchoolDay
for thousands of teachers.
So. Much. Gratitude.
#ShareThanks2018
WOW! So far today, over 21,000 people have donated to nearly 13,000 projects from teachers all across America.
🚨 THERE'S STILL TIME! 🚨
Give now to get a 50% boost on your donation, and help a teacher get ready for the school year ahead!
Today only,
@gatesfoundation
is giving donations to every DonorsChoose project a BOOST to help teachers and students get ready to learn! Support a project, and your donation will be boosted by 50%:
Our friends at
@TMobile
are truly making this a fantastic Friday! They just sent some
#MagentaMagic
across DonorsChose by funding $1 million in project requests. We can’t wait to see how this gift brings learning to life!
In the first 12 hours of our
@GatesFoundation
back-to-school boost, you’ve brought over 7,300 classroom projects to life! Let's shoot for the moon: Can we hit 10,000 by midnight?
📣 📣 BIG NEWS! 📣📣 On August 2nd, EVERY donation to teacher requests on DonorsChoose will get a 50% match from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, while funds last.
🍎 📚 Request the
#ClassroomResources
you need and let our community foot the bill:
We're so incredibly humbled by the 3.2 million people who have come together to make sure every teacher has the tools they need to give every student a great education.
One day left until the
@GatesFoundation
50% boost! On Tuesday, August 11, starting at 7am ET, donations to every DonorsChoose project will be boosted by 50% for just one day, helping students get resources to start the school year right — no matter where they’re learning from.
Teachers, join us is wishing the incomparable Yvette Nicole Brown an amazing birthday 🥳✨
Her joy, kindness, and constant support of teachers and students make us so proud to call her a member of the DonorsChoose family!
@YNB
, we hope you are getting thoroughly spoiled today!
🚨 BREAKING NEWS! 🚨 Just announced on
@GMA
…
@craignewmark
has committed $1 million to match donations to projects on , while funds last! Support a classroom today to have your donation doubled.
#GMAYearbook
It’s
#NationalSTEMDay
, so let’s give it up for all of the teachers out there helping shape our next generation of scientists, engineers, doctors, mathematicians, and coders! These teachers are literally building the future… and you can help them do it:
Yesterday, 39 K donors helped over 24 K teachers. Thanks to a 50% match from the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, we raised $8M for students nationwide!
We are grateful to our supporters and dedicated teachers. Thank you for giving students a great start to the school year!
SURPRISE!
Tomorrow and while funds last, EVERY project on DonorsChoose will receive a surprise 50% match from their region’s SONIC Drive-In. Teachers, let your community know about the match with our sharing toolkit:
#NationalBackToSchoolPrepDay
📚 ✏️
#GivingTuesday
has begun!
Right now, there are over 95,000 DonorsChoose projects waiting for your support! And guess what? We're DOUBLING every donation! Give today and you'll be giving twice the smiles, twice the classroom impact and twice the learning:
Thanks to
#VerizonUp
members for supporting over 5,000 classroom projects across all 50 states. Keep an eye out for more opportunities to fund projects via VerizonUp around back-to-school season!
🎶🥰 It's the most wonderful time of the year!
Our friends
@SonicDriveIn
want EVERY teacher to have the best
#TeacherAppreciationDay
!
They're making sure every donation is matched by at least 50%, while funds last. Give a teacher a crucial boost today:
Well, yesterday was AMAZING. As usual, our community came through for teachers in a big way. In one day,
over 28,000 people gave 👩👩👧👦
over $2 million to support 💸
over 17,000 classroom projects 🏫
Thank you all for believing in teachers!
In 2018, you funded over a quarter of a million classroom projects across the country. WOW.
Thank you for helping bring us closer a world where every student in every community can get the great education they deserve.
Here’s to 2019!
The
#TeacherAppreciation
fun continues 🎉 💙
A generous partner just gifted all teachers who have a live project — all 63,881 of them — with a small token of their appreciation. If you've got project live right now, head to your account to find your gift!
What a week! Boosted by a 50% match from the
@GatesFoundation
on Tuesday, more than 42,664 donors helped fully fund 10,124 teacher requests! We send a big thank you to our supporters, and to the teachers who go the extra mile to give their students the best education possible.
Wow! Our friends
@Clorox
are donating $1M to provide teachers with the classroom basics they need over the back-to-school season!
Thank you Clorox for supporting these superhero educators, and congrats to everyone who benefited!
Wow! Huge thanks to
@GatesFoundation
and the 42,664 donors who supported projects yesterday. Thanks to your generosity, 10,124 projects were fully funded! Check out more of our favorite moments from the day:
We ❤️ teachers... to the moon and back 🚀
Teachers, we hope you had an amazing
#TeacherAppreciationWeek
! Just because the week is over, it doesn't mean we won't be noticing and appreciating all the ways you help our country's kids shoot for the stars ⭐
#teachersareheroes
Thank you to everyone who has supported
#KeepKidsLearning
so far! In just two days last week, over 7K people gave nearly $1M, which, thanks to a match from
@BillGates
&
@MelindaGates
, will help thousands of teachers get supplies to their students at home.
We’re grateful for
@Kleenex
and their support during
#TeacherAppreciationWeek
. Congratulations to the 2,000 teachers who received donations! This is just the beginning of our partnership, and we look forward to continuing to support teachers across America.
#AllTheFeelings
Thank you to our 47,574 donors for choosing to support our teachers this GivingTuesday. You helped give over $4M to 27,845 projects.
#GivingTuesday
#SupportTeachers
Wow! 🏀Michael Jordan and
@Jumpman23
just fully funded 556 projects across Portland, Memphis, New Orleans, and Detroit through their Black Community Commitment Initiative. Congrats to the 385 teachers who benefitted.
#ActionOverWords