Many funding options are opening up for k-12 public school support. Universities ask others for donations and many are part of state budgets just as undergraduate institutions are. So why not donate? Teachers may appreciate help with projects instead of gifts at holidays or during teacher appreciation week. This can now be accomplished in several ways.In SC we have a foundation which directs tax-free donations and all the paper-work associated to the school of your choice. SC Future Minds celebrates learners and learning in our state.They provide a button unique URL and to schools which have signed up.
Bing, the search engine from Microsoft also allow you to give by selecting your school... but your use of their search engine supplies the Surface tablets to the school.
Donors Choose is another cash accepting site but this one is geared toward individual teacher projects which need funding. Teachers join and propose their need with the amount needed to fulfill the request. Then donors help pay for the project.
The last one I am reviewing here is slightly different. This is a site where teacher made items for school are offered for sale to other teachers. Many of the items teachers produce are shared free of charge to other teachers , but entrepreneurial teachers have begun offering cute, and useful items on a site called Teachers Pay Teachers.
Teachers have long financed needs in their classrooms with their own money...some states compensate with a supply check. Things are also supplied by the school or district, but with tighter budgets and in less well off districts this new funding is welcome.
