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ALEXANDRIA, Va. — Donations to classroom projects on DonorsChoose are being matched Wednesday, five days before Alexandria City Public Schools students return to class.
The match started at 7 a.m. and applies to every live, approved project on the site. DonorsChoose describes it as a 1.5x match: a $20 donation becomes $30, and a $100 donation becomes $150.
The offer is national, not specific to Alexandria. But donors can filter the site by location, and the division circulated the promotion to teachers and PTAs ahead of Wednesday. The first day of school is Monday, Aug. 24.
What Alexandria teachers are asking for
More than 140 projects were listed near Alexandria on Wednesday morning, a search radius that also takes in Fairfax County schools with Alexandria mailing addresses. Most are small — a few hundred dollars or less — and many are close to funded.
At Alexandria City High School, a teacher is seeking a MacBook Pro to build accessibility features into online courses for students in alternative education, with $174 left to go. Another is asking for basic classroom supplies to support language acquisition and hands-on work, $76 short. A third, in the school's life skills program, wants a heavy-duty cart, water and lemonade to run a student-operated drink cart where students practice using communication devices in real interactions.
Mount Vernon Community School has three projects going at once: a third-grade teacher asking for stools, floor cushions and headphones, $67 short; an art teacher who needs printmaking ink to run relief prints; and a science teacher raising money for hands-on experiments and engineering challenges.
At the Minnie Howard campus, a teacher is requesting an air purifier and classroom basics. At George Mason Elementary, a teacher wants a screen-free coding activity. At Francis C. Hammond Middle School, a teacher is asking for snacks and water for students working in the school garden. At Jefferson-Houston, a second-grade teacher is raising money for her classroom.
At Samuel W. Tucker Elementary, one ask is bubble wands and popsicles for an extra recess to reward good behavior. It needs $179.
Teachers use DonorsChoose to request classroom materials, which the nonprofit purchases and ships directly to schools once a project is funded. Projects had to be live and approved before Wednesday to qualify for the match.
Browse Alexandria classroom projects on DonorsChoose.
