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Ms. Olaes from Los Angeles, CA is requesting classroom basics through DonorsChoose, the most trusted classroom funding site for teachers.

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Art Portfolios: Showcasing Their Best Efforts

Help me give my students personal art portfolios to showcase their best work.

  • $465 goal

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My Project

I have approximately 60 students attending an after-school art colony on zoom. These students are creating art using watercolor paints, oil pastels, pencils, and watercolor pencils. They need portfolios to preserve and protect their best work.

We are encouraging students who may be gifted in visual arts to create a portfolio containing 6 to 10 pieces of their original artwork.

These portfolios will be evaluated and some of the students may be identified as Gifted in the category of Visual Arts.

We are also encouraging students to learn to select the art pieces that they are proud of and preserve them in a professional portfolio. This develops their ability to evaluate their work.

Ms. Olaes South Park Elementary School Grades 3-5

Equity Focus

At this school, more than 50% of students are Black, Latino, and/or Native American, and more than 50% come from low-income households. Learn how your donation to this school supports a more equitable education.

This project will directly impact historically underfunded classrooms.

More about Ms. Olaes

Los Angeles, CA View local requests

Nearly all students from low‑income households Data about students' economic need comes from the National Center for Education Statistics, via our partners at MDR Education. Learn more

60 students impacted 3donors

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Where Your Donation Goes

Materials Cost Quantity Total
Blick Presentation Book - 12 x 9, Portrait • Blick Art Materials $5.49 60 $329.40

Materials cost

$329.40

Vendor shipping charges

FREE

Sales tax

$30.14

3rd party payment processing fee

$4.94

Fulfillment labor & materials

$30.00

Total project cost

$394.48

Suggested donation to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

$69.61

Total project goal

$464.09

How we calculate what's needed

Total project goal

$464.09

3 Donors

-$458.80

Donations toward project cost

-$394.48

Donations to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

-$64.32

Excluded support for DonorsChoose

-$5.29

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$0.00

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