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Ms. O'Keefe from Bronx, NY is requesting art supplies through DonorsChoose, the most trusted classroom funding site for teachers.

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From the Bottom of Our HeARTs, Help Us Do Art!

Help me give my students, who do not have an art class, art supplies to get creative and express themselves!

  • $861 goal

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Celebrating Hispanic & Latinx Heritage Month

Celebrate Hispanic & Latinx Heritage Month

This project is a part of the Hispanic & Latinx Heritage Month celebration because it supports a Latino teacher or a school where the majority of students are Latino.

My Project

Pablo, Vincent, Georgia, and MANY more artists were all once 7 & 8 year old kiddos who loved to create and express themselves. Our brilliant and beautiful Bronxites ALSO just want the opportunity to create and express themselves! Our classroom community consists of 22 incredible students in an Integrated Co-Teaching setting, with both a General Education and Special Education teacher. Among our 22 rockstars, there are nine students who are English Language Learners (with home languages like Bangla, Spanish, French, and Albanian) and eight that have special needs. The students in our third-grade class range in ability across five grade-level equivalents. Our students were in Kindergarten when COVID-19 shut the world down, and as a result, need so much support building up both the gaps in their learning as well as times to feel JOY & CREATIVITY.

Our students love to create, color, and express themselves through the Visual Arts, but do not have a full-time Art teacher!

With your donation, you will help us bring Art into the classroom to create projects that connect to our academic learning. For example, we are reading a Historical Fiction novel that takes place in remote Alaska; help us use oil pastels to depict the Northern Lights against a snowy silhouette! Your donation will help us provide each of our students with their own set of oil pastels, watercolors, and colored pencils, as well as the papers to be their canvas!

Did YOU have an Art Class in your school? How did you feel when the Art supplies came out, when a blank page became a colorful masterpiece of and by your own design? How proud were you when it was hung on the wall for all to experience? My students deserve that too, and with YOUR help they will get to!

Ms. O'Keefe Bedford Park Elementary School Grades 3-5

Equity Focus

This project directly supports students at a historically underfunded school. Learn more about our Equity Focus.

This project will directly impact historically underfunded classrooms.

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Bronx, NY View local requests

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

22 students impacted 2donors

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Where Your Donation Goes

Where your donation goes
Materials Cost Quantity Total
Jolly Superstick X-Big Colored Pencils - Assorted Colors, Set of 24 • Blick Art Materials $15.56 25 $389.00
Camellia Student Watercolor Set - Assorted, Set of 18 Colors • Blick Art Materials $4.76 25 $119.00
Sakura Cray-Pas Junior Artist Oil Pastels - Assorted Colors, Set of 25 • Blick Art Materials $3.14 25 $78.50
Bee Paper Aquabee Watercolor Paper - 6 x 9, 140 lb, 50 Sheets • Blick Art Materials $21.56 3 $64.68
Bienfang Student Watercolor Pad - 9 x 12, 15 Sheets • Blick Art Materials $6.22 2 $12.44
Pacon Sunworks Construction Paper - Assorted Colors, 9 x 12, Pkg of 300 Sheets • Blick Art Materials $10.65 1 $10.65
Pacon Sunworks Construction Paper - Assorted Colors, 12 x 18, Pkg of 150 Sheets • Blick Art Materials $10.65 1 $10.65
Pacon Sunworks Construction Paper - Black, 12 x 18, Pkg of 50 Sheets • Blick Art Materials $3.74 1 $3.74
Pacon Sunworks Construction Paper - Black, 9 x 12, Pkg of 50 Sheets • Blick Art Materials $2.02 1 $2.02

Materials cost

$690.68

Vendor shipping charges

 FREE

Sales tax

 $0.00

3rd party payment processing fee

$10.36

Fulfillment labor & materials

$30.00

Total project cost

$731.04

Suggested donation to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

$129.01

Total project goal

$860.05

How we calculate what's needed

Total project goal

 $860.05

1 Donor

-$430.02

Donations toward project cost

-$365.52

Donations to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

-$64.50

match offer

-$430.02

Match offer toward project cost

-$365.52

Match offer to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

-$64.50

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 $0.00

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