You're on track to get doubled donations (and unlock a reward for the colleague who referred you). Keep up the great work!
Take credit for your charitable giving! Check out your tax receipts
Donate
To use your $50 gift card credits, find a project to fund and we'll automatically apply your credits at checkout. Find a classroom project
Menu
Skip to main content

Help teachers & students in your hometown this season!
Use code HOME at checkout and your donation will be matched up to $100.

Your school email address was successfully verified.

See this teacher's page

This teacher needs your help!

Mr. McNeill from Harrisburg, PA is requesting books through DonorsChoose, the most trusted classroom funding site for teachers.

See what Mr. McNeill is requesting

Building an Equitable Classroom Library

Help me give my students a better and more inclusive collection of books that better reflect who they are both culturally and socially.

  • $755 goal

Hooray! This project is fully funded

Hooray! This project is fully funded

My Project

I have a very diverse set of students and a classroom library that does not appropriately match that diversity. I would like to build it up not only with canonical texts, but also titles that include BIPOC and LGBTQ+ protagonists to better cultivate a passion for reading in my students with stories in which they can see themselves and their cultures. It is my hope that a better collection of books will encourage my students to read more and discourage the notions that reading and books are “academic” or only for school.

Mr. McNeill
Grades 9-12
    More than three‑quarters of 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

    This project will reach 110 students.

    3 donors have given to this project.

Boost your odds

Add a profile photo in addition to your classroom photo. If you add a photo, it'll show up right here on your project page.

You are more likely to receive funding if you put a face to your name.

Upload a photo

Top rated for efficiency and transparency.

You donate directly to the teacher or project you care about and see where every dollar you give goes.

Expand the "Where your donation goes" section below to see exactly what Mr. McNeill is requesting.

See our finances

TEACHERS, FEELING INSPIRED?

You can start a project with the same resources being requested here!

Where Your Donation Goes

Where your donation goes
Materials Cost Quantity Total
The 1619 Project: A New Origin Story • DonorsChoose Featured Favorites $30.00 1 $30.00
The Sum of Us: What Racism Costs Everyone and How We Can Prosper Together • DonorsChoose Featured Favorites $26.00 1 $26.00
How the Word Is Passed: A Reckoning with the History of Slavery Across America • DonorsChoose Featured Favorites $22.00 1 $22.00
Ain't Burned All the Bright • DonorsChoose Featured Favorites $20.00 1 $20.00
Thirst • DonorsChoose Featured Favorites $20.00 1 $20.00
The Rebellious Life of Mrs. Rosa Parks (Adapted for Young People) • DonorsChoose Featured Favorites $20.00 1 $20.00
Reach: 40 Black Men Speak on Living, Leading, and Succeeding • DonorsChoose Featured Favorites $19.00 1 $19.00
Long Way Down The Graphic Novel • DonorsChoose Featured Favorites $19.00 1 $19.00
Cemetery Boys • DonorsChoose Featured Favorites $19.00 1 $19.00
They Called Us Enemy • DonorsChoose Featured Favorites $19.00 1 $19.00
Tokyo Ever After: A Novel • DonorsChoose Featured Favorites $19.00 1 $19.00
A Different Mirror for Young People A History of Multicultural America • DonorsChoose Featured Favorites $18.00 1 $18.00
Before the Ever After • DonorsChoose Featured Favorites $18.00 1 $18.00
A Black Womens History of the United States • DonorsChoose Featured Favorites $18.00 1 $18.00
An Indigenous Peoples History of the United States for Young People • DonorsChoose Featured Favorites $18.00 1 $18.00
We Are Not Free • DonorsChoose Featured Favorites $17.00 1 $17.00
The Nickel Boys • DonorsChoose Featured Favorites $16.00 1 $16.00
A Cuban Girls Guide to Tea and Tomorrow • DonorsChoose Featured Favorites $16.00 1 $16.00
American Like Me • DonorsChoose Featured Favorites $16.00 1 $16.00
Stamped: Racism, Antiracism, and You: A Remix of the National Book Award-Winning Stamped from the Beginning • DonorsChoose Featured Favorites $16.00 1 $16.00
A Little Book About Racism • DonorsChoose Featured Favorites $15.00 1 $15.00
Within These Wicked Walls • DonorsChoose Featured Favorites $15.00 1 $15.00
Don't Ask Me Where I'm From • DonorsChoose Featured Favorites $15.00 1 $15.00
Firekeepers Daughter • DonorsChoose Featured Favorites $15.00 1 $15.00
The Light in Hidden Places • DonorsChoose Featured Favorites $15.00 1 $15.00
Furia • DonorsChoose Featured Favorites $13.00 1 $13.00
You Should See Me in a Crown • DonorsChoose Featured Favorites $12.00 1 $12.00
Simon vs the Homo Sapiens Agenda • DonorsChoose Featured Favorites $11.00 1 $11.00
I Will Always Write Back How One Letter Changed Two Lives • DonorsChoose Featured Favorites $11.00 1 $11.00
I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter • DonorsChoose Featured Favorites $11.00 1 $11.00
Amal Unbound • DonorsChoose Featured Favorites $11.00 1 $11.00
A Long Walk to Water • DonorsChoose Featured Favorites $10.00 1 $10.00
The Bridge Home • DonorsChoose Featured Favorites $10.00 1 $10.00
An Invisible Thread: A Young Readers' Edition • DonorsChoose Featured Favorites $10.00 1 $10.00
Harbor Me • DonorsChoose Featured Favorites $10.00 1 $10.00
Brown Girl Dreaming • DonorsChoose Featured Favorites $10.00 1 $10.00
Ghost Boys • DonorsChoose Featured Favorites $9.00 1 $9.00
The Stars Beneath Our Feet • DonorsChoose Featured Favorites $8.00 1 $8.00

Materials cost

$597.00

Vendor shipping charges

 $5.00

Sales tax

 $0.00

3rd party payment processing fee

$8.96

Fulfillment labor & materials

$30.00

Total project cost

$640.96

Suggested donation to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

$113.11

Total project goal

$754.07

How we calculate what's needed

Total project goal

 $754.07

3 Donors

-$754.07

Donations toward project cost

-$640.96

Donations to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

-$113.11

Still needed View calculationHide calculation

 $0.00

Our team works hard to negotiate the best pricing and selections available.

View complete list Show less

Give the most requested basic supplies

See teacher requests

Give back to your community

Find opportunities to impact local needs by exploring a map of classroom projects near you.

See local area

Project Activity

Project Activity
Back to top

DonorsChoose is the most trusted classroom funding site for teachers.

As a teacher-founded nonprofit, we're trusted by thousands of teachers and supporters across the country. This classroom request for funding was created by Mr. McNeill and reviewed by the DonorsChoose team.

See how DonorsChoose works
{"pmaHash":"","showProjectRecommendations":true,"leadGenEnabled":true,"hideTeacherDetails":false,"schoolState":"PA","teacherPossessivePronoun":"his","PMsManager":null,"schoolGradeType":{"id":4,"name":"High School"},"TeacherPMForms":{},"completingDonationAmount":0,"teacherHasClassroomPhoto":true,"proposalURL":"https://www.donorschoose.org/project/building-an-equitable-classroom-library/6788112/","mayHaveReplacements":false,"numStudents":110,"teacherScreenName":"Mr. McNeill","isEquityFocus":false,"proposalHash":"-254376918","isApplePayMobileOnly":true,"progressBarPercentage":100.00,"photosPublished":false,"queryString":"","DonorPMForm":null,"schoolCity":"Harrisburg","teachersOnPage":[5869675],"isTeacherViewingTheirOwnProject":false,"minimizedLeadGenEnabled":false,"proposalId":6788112,"proposalMessageFormModel":null,"numActiveProjects":1,"verifyShowPhotos":"","eligibleToBeCopied":false,"authorIds":{"5869675":{"owner":"Mr. McNeill","donationSalutations":{}}},"displayedPercentFunded":1.0,"proposalsOnPage":[6788112],"pmaId":"","teacherProfilePhotoURL":"https://storage.donorschoose.net/dc_prod/images/teacher/profile/orig/tp5869675_orig.jpg?crop=1:1,smart&width=136&height=136&fit=bounds&auto=webp&t=1661939053387","teacherHasProfilePhoto":true,"currentWorkflowStatusCode":21,"teacherChallengeId":21277391,"isApplePayEnabled":true,"fundedByTarget":false,"activeProject":{"completingDonationAmount":163,"proposalURL":"project/independent-reading-comfort/8924612/","proposalTitle":"Independent Reading Comfort!","proposalId":8924612},"donorIdsForImpactPhotoCheck":[],"teacherId":5869675,"schoolCounty":"Dauphin","fullyFunded":true,"isStudentLed":false,"isExpired":true,"schoolStateObj":{"code":"PA","name":"Pennsylvania"}}
Supporting teachers and students since 2000

DonorsChoose makes it easy for anyone to help a classroom in need. Public school teachers from every corner of America create classroom project requests, and you can give any amount to the project that inspires you.

We've earned the highest possible ratings from Better Business Bureau, Charity Watch, Charity Navigator, and Guidestar.