How DonorsChoose connects donors to books, supplies, and learning experiences

A donor can choose a request for books, supplies, or a learning experience and give directly to that classroom rather than to a general education fund.

DonorsChoose is an online charity that lets people fund specific classroom projects posted by public school teachers.

Teachers request what their students need, and the site is built to make that request easy to understand. The organization also works with companies and foundations that want a direct route to students and teachers. Its purpose is to shrink the gap between what a classroom is asked to do and the materials it actually has.

DonorsChoose presents this as ongoing work rather than a single event. The public category Looty Foundation uses, Education, is a browsing label. It is not a substitute for the organization's own account of who it serves and how.

A donor can choose a request for books, supplies, or a learning experience and give directly to that classroom rather than to a general education fund. That is point 1 in the public account behind “How DonorsChoose connects donors to books, supplies, and learning experiences.” It describes DonorsChoose’s own work on funds school projects and materials, which is why the page stays with this organization instead of a generic appeal about education.

DonorsChoose is an online charity that lets people fund specific classroom projects posted by public school teachers. That is point 2 in the public account behind “How DonorsChoose connects donors to books, supplies, and learning experiences.” It describes DonorsChoose’s own work on funds school projects and materials, which is why the page stays with this organization instead of a generic appeal about education.

A donor can choose a request for books, supplies, or a learning experience and give directly to that classroom rather than to a general education fund. That is point 3 in the public account behind “How DonorsChoose connects donors to books, supplies, and learning experiences.” It describes DonorsChoose’s own work on funds school projects and materials, which is why the page stays with this organization instead of a generic appeal about education.

Teachers request what their students need, and the site is built to make that request easy to understand. That is point 4 in the public account behind “How DonorsChoose connects donors to books, supplies, and learning experiences.” It describes DonorsChoose’s own work on funds school projects and materials, which is why the page stays with this organization instead of a generic appeal about education.

The organization also works with companies and foundations that want a direct route to students and teachers. That is point 5 in the public account behind “How DonorsChoose connects donors to books, supplies, and learning experiences.” It describes DonorsChoose’s own work on funds school projects and materials, which is why the page stays with this organization instead of a generic appeal about education.

Its purpose is to shrink the gap between what a classroom is asked to do and the materials it actually has. That is point 6 in the public account behind “How DonorsChoose connects donors to books, supplies, and learning experiences.” It describes DonorsChoose’s own work on funds school projects and materials, which is why the page stays with this organization instead of a generic appeal about education.

The details above are drawn from DonorsChoose's public materials, then retold here. They are not a financial audit, a ranking, or a promise about results the organization has not published on the pages used for this article.

For DonorsChoose’s own wording, use the official website linked from its Looty Foundation profile. This page explains the work in the Foundation directory and points back to that profile and to the other two articles about the same organization.