Join the NJ Moms Donors Choose.Org Blogger Challenge
With hubby out of work now for three weeks, the list of things we need money for is growing longer. Almost daily I look at the growing list and face the sad realization that we simply don’t have enough money for everything. Sadly, this is also the case with our schools.
The DonorsChoose Blogger Challenge is underway and it has the potential to help many schools. If you blog or surf the web regularly you know there are many different types of bloggers. The Blogger Challenge is pitting the different categories of bloggers against each other for some fun competition that will benefit our schools and our children. The New Jersey Moms Blog is one of the teams participating. As a contributing author, a Mom and a resident of New Jersey I can’t think of a more appropriate group to support.
From the website: DonorsChoose.org is dedicated to addressing the scarcity and inequitable distribution of learning materials and experiences in our public schools. We believe this inequity is rooted in the following factors:
Shortages of learning materials prevent thorough, engaging instruction;
Top-down distribution of materials stifles our best teachers and discourages them from developing targeted solutions for their students; and
Small, directed contributions have gone un-tapped as a source of funding.
DonorsChoose.org will improve public education by engaging citizens in an online marketplace where teachers describe and individuals can fund specific student projects. We envision a nation where students in every community have the resources they need to learn.
DonorsChoose is a great way for classrooms get the items they need to help teach our children. And by our children, I don’t mean just the children in New Jersey, I mean the children all across the USA because DonorsChoose is able to serve every school in every state within the US. The first things that happens is a teacher registers and lists projects they need sponsorship for. These projects can be for anything from pencils to furniture to equipment. Some of the projects listed for area schools are for desks, chairs, dictionaries, maps and musical instruments. People go to the DonorsChoose site and choose the project they’d like to help and how much money they’d like to donate. When a project has received enough donations to be completed, DonorsChoose will find and buy the materials for the project and ship them directly to the teacher that listed the project. See what happens here? Money goes right to the cause that needs it. It doesn’t go through district administrators and potentially get used for other things. Money donated goes where the people donating it want it to go.
The New Jersey Moms team would appreciate any help you are able to donate to this challenge. To support us just use the widget above or visit the New Jersey Moms Blogger Challenge Leaderboard and find the project you want to support. It’d be awesome if the Mommy blogs category could beat the others but even if we don’t, nobody loses in this competition. Our children, the students that need these items, win no matter which group of bloggers wins the Blogger Challenge. There’s no minimum (or maximum) amount for donations and every little bit helps. If you donate as a result of reading this, please leave me a comment so I can include you in my thank you post at the end of the challenge. Please help the New Jersey Moms in this challenge, as well as all of the children, by spreading the word. One person can make a difference.
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