My husband has a LOW tolerance level for people like me. In fact, he comes home from the store angry at ME specifically if he gets behind somebody in line using coupons. Okay, I admit I'm a little obsessed but with the amount of laundry we do it doesn't hurt to have 22 bottles of Tide that all came in at under $3.00 a box.
This week I was on the a crusade to get my (5) 2-liter bottles of Dr. Pepper Ten for free when I noticed an add for Starbucks coffee. There was no coupon so I was about to toss it aside when I looked at it again.
On specially marked packages of Starbucks Coffee, only the "Morning Joe" bags, there are "peelies" sponsored by Starbucks and MSNBC for a $5 code to DonorsChoose.org.
"That's great Nikki, what does that mean to me?"
DonorsChoose.org is this fantastic website for teachers and librarians. Our teachers register on DonorsChoose.org and then they can add items to their cart from the list of stores on the site. It is virtually anything the classroom may need from supplies to Legos to laptops and projectors. Then when they go to checkout, instead of paying, they list their project on the site and it then welcomes anybody and everybody to give money to their project. The Starbucks Morning Joe campaign is giving anybody who buys that coffee $5 to give to ANY project they want to.
PLEASE, please, please encourage your child's teacher to sign up at DonorsChoose.org and make a request no matter how big or small. You would be surprised at the generosity of people NATIONWIDE. Mrs. Smith's 1st grade class and I worked on a project last year and before I knew what had happened the entire project was fulfilled from people around Idaho and the nation from people neither one of us knew.
The lesson we took from this is that PEOPLE WANT TO HELP EDUCATION and that TEACHERS MATTER to a lot of folks out there. It is very hard for the average person to show their support for public education but by giving directly to projects on DonorsChoose.org we know we can make a difference in a classroom. We know we can open a window for education even if a door shuts somewhere else.
Please let your teachers know that this tool is out there and we want them to make requests.
Nikki Rutledge
-Whitney Parent
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