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Thursday, August 20, 2009

Gates Foundation Grant for Alabama Teachers

This was just sent out via the Alabama Department of Education:


Funding for Public School Teachers to Help Students at High-Need or Rural High Schools Prepare For College!

1. What’s available? Gates Foundation has given us a grant to match funding to teachers’ classroom project request(s) to prepare students for college. Last year, 93% of projects that qualified for this Gates match offer were fully funded by donors who visited our site!

2. Who qualifies? If you are a full-time teacher at a high-need or rural public high school, you are eligible for this funding.

3. How do I participate? First, log in to your teacher account on DonorsChoose.org (if you don’t have one, any public school teacher can sign up at www.donorschoose.org/teacher. Once you’re logged in, submit a project requesting materials to help prepare your students for college.

4. Then what happens? A few hours after your project is approved, you should see a Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation logo on your project. This means it has qualified for this offer and now has a great chance of being fully funded by the other donors that visit our site.

To see projects recently funded via this offer, visit http://www.donorschoose.org/donors/search.html?historical=true&keywords=college&&&gradeType=4

To get started with submitting your own college prep project, log in to your account at www.donorschoose.org/teacher.

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