http://bryan.daneman.org/categories/Education Bryan's weblog of Stuff. Wed, 19 Nov 2008 12:07:16 GMT bryan.daneman@gmail.com (Bryan Daneman) bryan.daneman@gmail.com (Bryan Daneman) en-us Copyright 2008, Bryan Daneman blog.NET v1.0 http://backend.userland.com/rss http://bryan.daneman.org/posts/DonorsChooseorg While channel surfing this evening, I caught an interview on MSNBC with Charles Best, a high school teacher in the Bronx and the founder of <A href="http://www.donorschoose.org">DonorsChoose</A>. <P />From the <A href="http://www.donorschoose.org/locale0/about.php?page=how_works">How it Works</A> page of the DonorsChoose website: <blockquote>The DonorsChoose model of citizen philanthropy begins with a teacher who wants to provide his or her students with an activity that school funds would not cover. At this website, the teacher can describe a student project and list the materials needed to make it possible. <P />DonorsChoose.org is not a bulletin board where teachers can directly post their proposals, however. Before accepting a proposal, DonorsChoose staff and volunteers verify the teacher's identity; confirm the existence of requested materials; negotiate discounts and attach a cost to the proposal; and, finally, review the proposed student project. If anything is unclear, staff email follow-up questions to the teacher. <P /> Next, civic-minded individuals can browse teachers' submissions. A donor can make a tax-deductible contribution that fully or partially funds a chosen proposal. </blockquote> In this, the season of giving, this site makes it easy to help out the future of our country. <P /> <A href="http://www.donorschoose.org/"><IMG height=60 src="http://www.donorschoose.org/images/link/link_donorschoose_medium.gif" width=280 border=0></A> Fri, 10 Dec 2004 02:18:45 GMT Education