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Mr. Tumino from Bronx, NY is requesting other through DonorsChoose, the most trusted classroom funding site for teachers.

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Help Me Choose My Own Book!

My students need a Barnes and Nobles gift card to buy books that are interesting and motivating to them.

  • $3,618 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 Students

Stephen King writes "Books are uniquely portable magic." Shopping for a book will give our struggling, unmotivated students their inner magic. Our students are yearning to find their spark, this is our chance to ignite a generation of readers and their love of books, their magic.

Do you want to help give inner-city children a chance at reading success?

Our school serves 100 bright fourth graders. Over 99% of our student population receives free and reduced-price lunch. Our school and their homes have limited resources to help bolster education and motivation in our students. We are hoping to fund Barnes and Noble gift cards to help instill a lifelong love of reading within our children and YOU can help! "There is no such thing as a child who hates to read; there are only children who have not found the right book." Frank Serafini

My Project

By providing the fourth grade team (four different classes) with Barnes and Noble gift cards, you are directly providing these children with a chance to access exciting, brand new books. Due to the state of our school and the neighborhood in which we teach, very few children have had an opportunity to go to a store and pick out a book of their choice. Our students are desperate. As they progress through the grades, their motivation is waning. This can be detrimental to their further progress in school, and unfortunately, in life. "There are many little ways to enlarge your child's world. Love of books is the best of all." Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis

With your help you will inspire a love of reading.

We are hoping that the freedom to go to a bookstore and pick out several books of their own will increase motivation and instill a lifelong love of reading which our students desperately need. "There are perhaps no days of our childhood we lived so fully as those we spent with a favorite book." Marcel Proust

Mr. Tumino PS 277 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 Mr. Tumino

Bronx, NY 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

150 students impacted 52donors

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Where Your Donation Goes

Where your donation goes
Materials Cost Quantity Total
Barnes and Noble Gift Cards • Barnes and Noble $20.00 150 $3,000.00

Materials cost

$3,000.00

Vendor shipping charges

 FREE

Sales tax

 $0.00

3rd party payment processing fee

$45.00

Fulfillment labor & materials

$30.00

Total project cost

$3,075.00

Suggested donation to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

$542.65

Total project goal

$3,617.65

How we calculate what's needed

Total project goal

 $3,617.65

47 Donors

-$2,377.06

Donations toward project cost

-$2,029.50

Donations to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

-$347.56

match offer

-$1,230.00

Match offer toward project cost

-$1,045.50

Match offer to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

-$184.50

Excluded support for DonorsChoose

-$10.59

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 $0.00

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