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

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Our Differences Make Us Beautiful

Help me give my students the chance to learn about people who are different from them in so many ways with the help of Multicultural World Hardcover LIbrary.

  • $428 goal

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Ms. Olmedo has another project! Donate to Need: First Grade School Materials to help her classroom.

$954 - complete this project and be a hero

My Students

My students are the children of essential workers who have no access to libraries, yet alone great books. With our school in the center of Los Angeles, they were aware of the protest and unrest that happened just miles from them months ago, but they didn't understand the reasons why.

After parent conferences last week, I learned that it was impossible for them to have a learning environment from where they are situated right now.

My students don't get to see their parents until late at night and most are living with other families in a small room. My students get very little time learning about diversity from home.

My Project

Due to distance learning, my students get their reading only from digital books, that is if their wifi is working. Their parents do not have the time to read to them or even buy them books because they are busy working two jobs.

I would like to be able to teach my students topics that are impossible to learn like respecting differences, the importance of kindness, and gaining confidence in their own skin.

A third of the school year had been spent away from people that is supposed to help them connect socially during play at school. Instead, they have to sit for hours in front of the computer making thumbs up sign and pressing the unmute button.

Ms. Olmedo Hoover Street Elementary School Grades PreK-2

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. Olmedo

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

23 students impacted 2donors

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Where Your Donation Goes

Where your donation goes
Materials Cost Quantity Total
BK195X Its a Multicultural World Hardcover Library • Lakeshore Learning Materials $105.00 1 $105.00
RA131 Differing Abilities Paperback Library • Lakeshore Learning Materials $89.50 1 $89.50
Kindness Pack: Grades K-2 (DonorsChoose.org Exclusive) • Scholastic Magazines and Book Clubs $30.00 1 $30.00
Separate Is Never Equal • AKJ Education $13.27 1 $13.27
Superheroes are Everywhere • AKJ Education $13.13 1 $13.13
Fauja Singh Keeps Going • AKJ Education $13.13 1 $13.13
The Breadwinner • AKJ Education $7.26 1 $7.26
A Boy Called Slow • AKJ Education $5.83 1 $5.83
The Name Jar • AKJ Education $5.59 1 $5.59
Alvin Ailey • AKJ Education $5.59 1 $5.59
Corn Is Maize • AKJ Education $5.10 1 $5.10

Materials cost

$293.40

Vendor shipping charges

 $9.00

Sales tax

 $26.85

3rd party payment processing fee

$4.40

Fulfillment labor & materials

$30.00

Total project cost

$363.65

Suggested donation to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

$64.17

Total project goal

$427.82

How we calculate what's needed

Total project goal

 $427.82

1 Donor

-$142.61

Donations toward project cost

-$121.22

Donations to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

-$21.39

match offer

-$285.21

Match offer toward project cost

-$242.43

Match offer to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

-$42.78

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 $0.00

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