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Help Jim Hill’s School Newspaper Get Going—DONE!
All, our good friend Emily Braden needs to raise $448 in five days to get this matching grant from the Gates Foundation to help her get her journalism program going at Jim Hill. Please read her e-mail below, then click the link to donate to help her and the students reach the goal!
Hey y'all. I created this grant to get some much-needed resources for my journalism class at Jim Hill High School. The Gates Foundation has funded half, but I'll lose it all if it's not fully funded in five days! Donations to the grant are entirely tax-deductable, and you can donate a little as a dollar (although more is appreciated too!) This proposal includes a classroom set of the AP Stylebook (as we don't have any books for this class), lots of jump drives (no student computers in the classroom either), a voice recorder for interviews, a whiteboard for the editors to use for planning and layout and a lot more. The students have not had a school newspaper in several years, so this will create a footprint for journalism classes behind them.
Link:
http://www.donorschoose.org/donors/proposal.html?id=218833&verify=310178168&zone=314
Please forward to anyone, and let me know if you have any questions about the grant.
Thanks,
Emily Braden Knight
posted by ladd on 12/01/08 at 11:44 AM. [printer-friendly version]
COMMENTS
We're at $403! :) Thank you so much for posting this.
I've had some questions about payment in my email box. Donorschoose is a very efficient and reputable way to donate to a classroom, and you make a payment directly on the website.
The notes posted with the contributions always make me smile, and I love sharing them with the students. Thank y'all so much!
posted by emilyb on 12/01/08 at 11:47 AM
posted by ladd on 12/01/08 at 12:27 PM
Y'all are doing great. Now we only need $235 more to get her to the matching grant. Remember, ANY amount helps!
Cheers, all. ;-)
posted by ladd on 12/01/08 at 01:26 PM
Thank for keeping everyone informed on such worthy projects that just need a little jump start. I'm glad to help and my company is happy to be able get them over the top.
posted by WMartin on 12/01/08 at 02:03 PM
YEAH, WMartin! We did it. That didn't take long at all and, folks, this has so much potential to change a teen's life, not to mention the city's. ;-)
Stay tuned for how y'all can help JAHSPA, our new Jackson Area High School Press Association. For one thing, we're still collecting reams of white paper for our under-funded teachers, as well dry erase markers, jump drives, digital recorders, reporters' notebooks and the like. That kind of stuff can be dropped off here at the JFP.
Long live journalism!
posted by ladd on 12/01/08 at 02:47 PM
Could y'all here me screaming where you are? Can't WAIT to tell the students. All the support and good thoughts are very much appreciated in a way I'm just too excited to communicate right now.
posted by emilyb on 12/01/08 at 05:49 PM
Count me in on future efforts. Had I known about the Jim Hill project in time, I would have participated.
posted by Kacy on 12/01/08 at 08:15 PM
Congrats, Em! Wow, I wish I could have donated, but you met your goal so quickly. Keep me in the loop for future requests.
posted by L.W. on 12/02/08 at 08:23 AM
Folks, I want to emphasize that you can help other teachers like Emily simply by bringing a couple reams of white paper, or a package of dry-erase markers, by the JFP for them! We're collecting the stuff and giving it to JAHSPA teachers as they request it.
posted by ladd on 12/02/08 at 09:58 AM
**Folks, I want to emphasize that you can help other teachers like Emily simply by bringing a couple reams of white paper, or a package of dry-erase markers, by the JFP for them! We're collecting the stuff and giving it to JAHSPA teachers as they request it.** <--ladd
OK. Where exactly is JFP located?
posted by Kacy on 12/02/08 at 04:15 PM
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