Carriage House Plans: Donor s Choose

Thursday 22 November 2012

Donor s Choose

The organization collects proposals from teachers and makes them available to public schools through its website. Individual donors can select projects and contribute as much as they are prepared to. DonorsChoose.org then purchases necessary supplies and ships them directly to the schools, and generates a line-item budget which is sent to the donor. All donors receive photographs of the project and a letter from the teacher, and donors who contribute $50 or more to a project also receive a "thank-you package" of hand-written thank-you notes from students.DonorsChoose.org is supported by fulfillment costs optionally added to each donation, as well as private funding sources, such as.DonorsChoose.org appeared in a Doonesbury strip on September 9, 2007. It was also mentioned in an interview with Craig Newmark on the October 18, 2007 episode of the and again on March 19, 2008 and September 27, 2011. In a TED talk entitled 'How to Buy Happiness,' DonorsChoose is mentioned as a charitable outlet, in a discussion on the relative benefits of personal vs. social spending.