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Ms. Melissa from Brooklyn, NY is requesting classroom basics through DonorsChoose, the most trusted classroom funding site for teachers.

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First Graders Love Mail!

Help me give my students postcard stamps and first class stamps, so I can mail letters to them.

  • 2 donors
  • $188 still needed

expires Apr 28

  • 2 donors
  • $188 still needed
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My Project

I have been mailing my students letters before school starts for the past 18 years. It has really helped to ease back to school anxiety. I also like to mail postcards for New Year’s and at the end of the year. I would like to be able to continue this tradition. I could use first class forever stamps and postcard stamps. Since the prices keep going up, I am requesting enough for at least two years. My students love receiving mail!

Your donation will help me to build a strong connection to my students!

Ms. Melissa
Grades PreK-2
  • PS 261 Zipporiah Mills
  • Brooklyn, NY
    • More than a third 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 25 students.

    2 donors have given to this project.

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Where Your Donation Goes

Where your donation goes
Materials Cost Quantity Total
Love 2025 Stamps, Sheet of 20 • USPS $14.60 6 $87.60
Sailboats Postcard Stamps • USPS $11.20 6 $67.20

Materials cost

$154.80

Vendor shipping charges

 $2.35

Sales tax

 $0.00

3rd party payment processing fee

$2.32

Fulfillment labor & materials

$30.00

Total project cost

$189.47

Suggested donation to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

$33.44

Total project goal

$222.91

How we calculate what's needed

Total project goal

 $222.91

2 Donors

-$35.00

Donations toward project cost

-$29.75

Donations to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

-$5.25

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 $187.91

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