Past projects 2
Computers for After School Projects
Funded Dec 20, 2012I would like to thank you from the bottom of my heart for your kind donation towards our purchase of the Google Chromebooks. My school has a serious lack of computers so every single computer makes a huge impact on our students.
This year, these computers have been used in many ways. Right now, they are being used by students who are writing a 10-15 page research paper on the Civil Rights Movement. Many of my students do not have internet service at home, so they depend on using the computers at our school. Having these laptops means that not only can more of them work on the paper during class time, but also during after school class. These computers are literally the difference between some of these students passing or failing the semester. More importantly, it is allowing them the time to look through online resources and really delve into the questions behind the Civil Rights Movement. Many MANY times, my students have excitedly brought the laptop to me to show me what they've found. The excitement that they show, due to the work they can do on these computers, is priceless.
These computers were also a part of a class that we had involving a week-long service learning trip to New Orleans. During the trip, students took a hands-on role in helping out the people of the 9th Ward in New Orleans, who (unbelievably) are still suffering the effects of Hurricane Katrina. During the run-up to the trip, we had weekly classes, which were greatly aided by these laptops. I wouldn't be going too far to say that we couldn't have run our class as efficiently without them.
Again, thank you so much for your donation. I know that a lot of the time, when we donate money, we can only hope that it is being used for a good cause. Be assured that not only has it helped my students this year, but it will continue to help my students every year forward. Thank you SO much for your donation -- it is truly appreciated by both myself and my students.”
With gratitude,
Ms. Cohen
I'm An Emotional Creature
Funded May 10, 2010I would like to personally thank you for your kind donation, allowing us to purchase the book "I Am An Emotional Creature" for several of our students. Some of the students who received these books were poets, some were positively voracious readers, and some were girls in need of inspiration, but all were girls whom anyone would be proud to call their own. The students to whom you so kindly donated these books are students from inner-city homes, with different challenges in their personal lives, but all are pushed to go to college -- and 90+% of them will go on to university. Your donation has shown them that others, from outside of our school, truly care. Your donation of this particular book has given them the chance to see life from others' perspectives and to be inspired by them. The impact of this kind of gift cannot be measured.
I thank you from the bottom of my heart and please know that your donation went to a wonderful cause -- our children.”
With gratitude,
Ms. Cohen