Public School projects we can fund

Hello everyone

 

As I mentioned on a previous message, during this Community Service month we’ll be trying to complete the funding for two promising projects proposals in two New York schools. We will raise some money with the party at the end of the month but that won’t be enough to gather the $5000 needed. For that we’ll have to tap into our wider network and ask our former co-workers, our families and friends or any other source we can think of. We’re cash-strapped students but have plenty of resources! Of course, you can donate money directly too.

So I wanted to briefly introduce you to the projects, you’ll see that our help can be very valuable. Ctrl+Click on the titles if you want to read more about them:

Authentically Bridging the Digital Divide: A class in the Bronx with a big proportion of immigrants needs an HP laptop to help the kids learn about technology, English language and a variety of other topics. We all know how important our laptops are as learning tools. Let’s get one for these kids too!

Help Inner City Kids Leap Into Learning: This proposal coming from Brooklyn wants to purchase a learning system to help the kids (grades 3-5) learn to read properly. Those kids do not have any help at home so this system would benefit them by fostering their love of reading and books. After all the case readings we’re doing, we’ve got to sympathize with them!

 

Both proposals come from schools where more than 90% of kids come from poor families and qualify for government-paid free lunch. If we manage to fund them, we will get pictures of the kids using our sponsored tools and we could even go visit them later on.

All we have to do is direct enough people to the Challenge Page (http://www.donorschoose.org/donors.php?action=view_proposal&id=5157&cid=319) and we will make this happen. We will come back with a template email that can be easily forwarded to lots of people, but please start contacting your network now, we only have a month to complete the challenge! You can also copy and paste the picture below, making sure you use the link to the challenge. Finally, you can also direct people to our challenge blog at http://cluster-a.blogspot.com

 

Let’s show some kind cluster spirit!

david