Update: Please ignore as this rolls down the recent list again -- I apologize for the unpublishing glitch. We’ll be back on Sunday as usual.
Welcome to The Inoculation Project! This week, we're taking advantage of a matching donation offer to fund the purchase of 24 award-winning books for a high school library in Atlanta, Georgia. The project will make 15 different titles chosen from Junior Library Guild selections available to their 999 students.
As always, our conduit is DonorsChoose.org, an organization founded in 2000 and highly rated by both Charity Navigator and the Better Business Bureau. If you’re short on cash, don’t worry — we’re glad to see you anyway! And your tips, recs, shares, and so on are a good free way to help, by helping us get on the rec list and catch more eyes. Join us below for all the fun!
So that we can help both small and large projects, we usually present a relatively modest project each week, then feature a more ambitious project with a long-term deadline. We can chip away at the long-term project, and our activity can also help push that project up DonorsChoose’s equivalent of our “rec list”, so it is shown to more donors outside Daily Kos. In that way, we can help finish projects that may be beyond our means when only our own dollars are considered.
This week, we’re starting a new long-term project!
LONG-TERM PROJECT
Resources: My students need high quality, award-winning books in their library collection. These Jr. Library Guild selections have been hand-picked by professional reviewers and represent the finest quality books that are available to school libraries.
School Poverty Level: Highest
Location: Maynard Jackson High School, Atlanta, Georgia
Total: $575.66 (Matching Donation offer!)
Still Needed: $545.66 Completed. Thank you!
Expires: January 11, 2017
Teacher’s Comments from Ms. Still:
My Students: My students live in an urban area with a high poverty rate. While they do their best to achieve at the highest levels, many do not have the resources at home to extend their learning beyond the school doors. Our library budget is extremely limited, but I would like to use Donors Choose to help bridge the gap for my kids.
I would like to give my students the opportunity to read engaging, relevant, high-quality fiction that will enrich their lives.
My students deserve the same opportunities as those who are at schools with large book budgets. These selections will enrich our library collection and provide my students with access to award-winning books.
My Project: These titles have been specifically chosen from Junior Library Guild past selections. JLG reviews over 3000 titles each year and the professionals at the Guild work to identify meaningful titles that are likely to win awards due to their high quality. Junior Library Guild selections go on to win awards/favorable professional reviews over 95% of the time.
My students deserve to see current, relevant, award-winning selections in their Library Media Center.
These materials will increase both the quantity and quality of the books in our library. Currently, our library falls short of the requirements on the number of books per student that we should have according to state standards. In addition, our collection is quite aged and every input of a new, current book will take us one step closer to the type of collection that we would like to offer to our students.
Donations of ANY size can make a BIG difference!
Here’s their list of requested titles (not sure that y’all will be able to read this list because the font appears to be quite small in the draft, but we’ll see):
Zombie Makers: True Stories of Nature's Undead (Exceptional Science Titles for Intermediate Grades) (Junior Library Guild Selection) • AMAZON BUSINESS |
$30.65 |
2 |
$61.30 |
The Case of the Vanishing Little Brown Bats: A Scientific Mystery (Junior Library Guild Selection) • AMAZON BUSINESS |
$29.27 |
2 |
$58.54 |
Score!: The Action and Artistry of Hockey's Magnificent Moment (Junior Library Guild Selection) (Spectacular Sports)• AMAZON BUSINESS |
$29.27 |
2 |
$58.54 |
Courage Has No Color, The True Story of the Triple Nickles: America's First Black Paratroopers (Ala Notable Children's Books. Older Readers) • AMAZON BUSINESS |
$16.66 |
2 |
$33.32 |
Journey into the Deep: Discovering New Ocean Creatures (Junior Library Guild Selection) • AMAZON BUSINESS |
$31.93 |
1 |
$31.93 |
Gabi, a Girl in Pieces (Junior Library Guild Selection)• AMAZON BUSINESS |
$15.72 |
2 |
$31.44 |
A Bag of Marbles: The Graphic Novel (Graphic Universe) (Junior Library Guild Selection) • AMAZON BUSINESS |
$13.74 |
2 |
$27.48 |
Never Forgotten (Junior Library Guild Selection)• AMAZON BUSINESS |
$13.29 |
2 |
$26.58 |
Chasing Shadows (Junior Library Guild Selection)• AMAZON BUSINESS |
$12.80 |
2 |
$25.60 |
Wild Cats: Past & Present (Junior Library Guild Selection)• AMAZON BUSINESS |
$18.95 |
1 |
$18.95 |
Franklin and Winston: A Christmas That Changed the World (Junior Library Guild Selection) • AMAZON BUSINESS |
$14.89 |
1 |
$14.89 |
Underneath • AMAZON BUSINESS |
$9.99 |
1 |
$9.99 |
Candy Bomber: The Story of the Berlin Airlift's "Chocolate Pilot"• AMAZON BUSINESS |
$8.65 |
1 |
$8.65 |
The Caged Graves • AMAZON BUSINESS |
$8.09 |
1 |
$8.09 |
Sharp Shot (Junior Library Guild Selection (G.P. Putnam))• AMAZON BUSINESS |
$2.37 |
2 |
$4.74 |
Last week’s Bird and Butterfly Garden project has already been completed! Here’s the teacher’s thank you note:
Wow! This is amazing! Thank you for so quickly funding my Green Team's project to continue and expand our bird and butterfly garden. The bird bath will be such a nice addition to our garden! Thank you for supporting our efforts to be more green at school and improve animal habitats in our area. We are on our way to being a Michigan Green School again this year!
With gratitude,
Mrs. Smith
Founded in 2009, The Inoculation Project is an effort to combat the anti-science push in conservative America by providing direct funding to science and math projects in traditionally red-state classrooms and libraries. Our conduit is DonorsChoose.org, an organization founded in 2000 and highly rated by both Charity Navigator and the Better Business Bureau. DonorsChoose allows you to contribute to specific, vetted projects in public schools, resulting in tremendous and immediate impacts from small-dollar donations. Here’s an introductory video about DonorsChoose featuring Michelle Obama and Stephen Colbert.
Each Sunday morning, we focus on helping to fund one or two science and math projects in traditionally red-state schools, preferably in highest-poverty districts. We welcome everyone who shares our interest — no money is required! Your tip, rec, republish, comment, or share helps bring us more eyes, and besides, we like the company of others who love kids and education. Feel free to post a link or video, or just tell us how your weather is!
Finally, here’s our list of successfully funded projects — our series total is 537! The success-list diary now also contains links and additional information about DonorsChoose, formerly found in this space.