For four years now we, as a group, at ParentsWorld.com find something to do as a Holiday Project. In the past, we've adopted families and provided presents and more for Christmas.

This year we're trying something different. Last spring while watching "Oprah" I learned about an amazing teacher and a program that he had started for underprivaledged schools in the New York area. These schools, because of lack of funding, are going without things as simple as crayons and books.

Charles Best, formed Donors Choose to bring the average citizen together with Teachers who want to make a difference. Teachers will propose a project that they need funded and upon approval they get listed at the website. Anyone can then go and browse the projects and see what they'd like to fund in part or in whole. From Crayons to Pianos - everything you can imagine is in there.

The regular members of ParentsWorld went though the list of projects and picked out five that interested us. From there, we voted to find the o­ne that we wanted to fund. We chose a small project as we are all aware that many of us are quite cash strapped as it is. It is my hope that we can not o­nly fund this project, but be able to also fund a second o­ne.

[3]PLEASE find it in you to take a moment and donate even a few small dollars towards this project. In no time, we can proved the teacher with the supplies needed to not just make a difference in o­ne life, but in many young lives. This project is perfect in that it allows you to donate what you can and we can all work together to reach the relatively small goal.

The details are as follows. Please note, "fulfillment" is defined o­n the Donors Choose website as "We also send the teacher a disposable camera and guidelines for writing thank-you notes. Upon receiving that feedback, we scan the photographs, photocopy the thank-you notes, and attach receipts, all of which goes to the donor"

It is with great pride that I can announce our first project, "BRAND NEW READERS", was funded in o­nly SEVEN days!   CLICK HERE TO READ ABOUT OUR FIRST PROJECT [4].

It is with further pride that I can announce our second project, "HANDS o­n SCIENCE", was funded in o­nly SIX days!  CLICK HERE TO READ ABOUT OUR SECOND PROJECT.
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Once again, I am proud to announce that we funded yet a third project, "CLASSROOM COPIER"  CLICK HERE TO READ ABOUT OUR THIRD PROJECT [6].