Be Charitable: DonorsChoose Evansville

We recently learned about a charitable cause that combines two of our favorite pastimes: the Internet and school children.

DonorsChoose is an entirely web-based nonprofit organization that provides an easy way to help students in need get the resources that public schools often lack. On the website, teachers submit project proposals for materials or experiences their students need to learn. These ideas become a classroom reality when you choose to fund them.

The projects are searchable by subject matter, school district, project cost, school poverty level, and lots of other variables. You can give a lot
or a little—you’ll receive an email thank-you note from the teacher you helped. And if you donate more than $100 to a project, you’ll also receive a
feedback package from the teacher and students you helped that includes tons of pictures and thank-you notes from the kids

Several Evansville-Vanderburgh and Warrick County School Distrct proposals are on the website right now, including these:

• Celebrate Reading At Home - Evansville
• Teaching With Technology - Newburgh

Or you can browse projects from all over the country.

If you’re one of those people who’s called to action only by celebrity endorsements (heaven knows we had no interest in wearing Sketchers until Ashlee Simpson jumped on that bandwagon), try this one: Oprah Winfrey called DonorsChoose a “revolutionary charity.”

And Oprah knows philanthropy.