Supporting Our Friends at Kids In Need Foundation
Our friends at Kids In Need Foundation are in this week’s Target Give Joy Promotion and we are happy to support their participation! They’d like you’re support too and here’s what you can do to help Kids In Need Foundation receive up to $50,000 this week: go to www.facebook.com/target and create a wish list. For […]
Guest Blogger: TIMING IS EVERYTHING, ISN’T IT?
By Laurie Johns, 1st Grade Teacher, Greenbrae Elementary Teachers: The whole idea behind Adopt-A-Classroom is to get your classroom adopted, correct? That requires getting friends, family and businesses to adopt you. To do that you need to ASK, ASK, ASK. The more businesses and people you get supporting you, the more money for your classroom. […]
Guest Blogger: USING THE WEB TO FINANCE AND ENHANCE THE CLASSROOM
By Amy Bennett-Rosado, Kindergarten Teacher, Lexington Elementary Thanks to technology, I as a teacher now have the power to fund and implement a technology-integrated classroom. I realized quickly big plans and no funds were a common aspect of teaching in public education. So here is a peek into part of a typical day in my […]
Guest Blogger: A TEACHER’S PERSPECTIVE
By Jake McDuffee, Language Arts Teacher, Winchester Village Elementary When I first signed up for Adopt-A-Classroom, I was excited about the opportunity to get supplies for my classroom. I was fortunate enough to be adopted by a donor almost immediately. I told a colleague about the program and the following year, we both were adopted […]
12 Champions of Change™
It’s almost 2011 and we are proud that Adopt-A-Classroom is featured in the 2011 Champions of Change calendar! The calendar is designed to raise awareness for charitable organizations and we are highlighted in the month of August, right in time for the Back-to-School season. Each month of the calendar features a different organization and we […]
Adopt-A-Classroom selected for Members Project! November 29~February 20
We are very excited that Adopt-A-Classroom has been selected to participate in the next round of Members Project voting! This means that we will have a chance to win $200,000 in funding from American Express through Members Project – as long as we get enough votes. The next round of voting starts on Monday, November […]
Boost Mobile and Danica Patrick support Adopt-A-Classroom
We are excited to announce that on Thursday, September 30, NASCAR driver Danica Patrick (far right) presented a charitable donation to Adopt-A-Classroom as part of a partnership with Boost Mobile! Our Programs Director, Sujey Acuna (far left), and Director of Finance, AnaLauren Pamintuan (second to left), were on site at the Boost Mobile store in […]
A Day Made Better for teachers across the country
Today, Tuesday, October 5th, OfficeMax and Adopt-A-Classroom celebrated ‘A Day Made Better’ by surprising over 1,000 very deserving teachers across the United States each with $1,000 worth of school supplies. The pictures, videos, and thank you notes are rolling in, and here are a few we can share with you already: PS 282 in Brooklyn, […]
Jonas Brothers Kick Off ‘A Day Made Better’
http://multivu.prnewswire.com/mnr/mnr_lib/201002/players/player-single.swf?job=46467 Earlier this week, the Jonas Brothers showed their continued support for teachers and students by helping to kick off the annual ‘A Day Made Better‘ campaign with our national sponsor, OfficeMax. They surprised the entire teaching staff of Los Feliz Charter School for the Arts in Los Angeles with $25,000 worth of school supplies […]