{"id":432,"date":"2007-10-02T23:54:02","date_gmt":"2007-10-03T04:54:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.trustyetc.com\/trustyblog\/2007\/10\/02\/donorschoose-and-blogger-challenge\/"},"modified":"2007-10-03T15:56:06","modified_gmt":"2007-10-03T20:56:06","slug":"donorschoose-and-blogger-challenge","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.trustyetc.com\/trustyblog\/2007\/10\/02\/donorschoose-and-blogger-challenge\/","title":{"rendered":"DonorsChoose and Blogger Challenge"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" align=\"right\" width=\"323\" src=\"http:\/\/www.donorschoose.org\/images\/logo.gif\" height=\"65\" \/>If you teach and need money for a project or work outside of education and want to help fund a specific project, <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.donorschoose.org\">DonorsChoose<\/a> may be the site you need to visit.<\/p>\n<p>The site has two purposes:<\/p>\n<p>1 &#8211; Give public school teachers a chance to get money for classroom projects that otherwise would not be funded.<\/p>\n<p>2 &#8211; Give prospective donors a chance to learning about and fund specific classroom projects.<\/p>\n<p>When you create an account on the site, you are asked to categorize yourself as a public school teacher or a prospective donor. Teachers can propose projects that require funding and donors can select projects and donate money to them.<\/p>\n<p>The site has also started what it calls a <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.donorschoose.org\/donors\/leadershipboard.html\">Blogger Challenge<\/a>. If you have a blog, you can challenge the readers of your blog to donate a certain amount money during a specific time period. DonorsChoose keeps track of how much money that is donated through your blogger challenge. Tomato Nation (at the top of the leader board) has raised $35,000 impacting over 3000 students.<\/p>\n<p>In the end, everyone wins.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If you teach and need money for a project or work outside of education and want to help fund a specific project, DonorsChoose may be the site you need to visit. The site has two purposes: 1 &#8211; Give public &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.trustyetc.com\/trustyblog\/2007\/10\/02\/donorschoose-and-blogger-challenge\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[13,336,340,14,2],"class_list":["post-432","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-edtech","tag-collaboration","tag-edtech","tag-education","tag-funding","tag-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.trustyetc.com\/trustyblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/432","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.trustyetc.com\/trustyblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.trustyetc.com\/trustyblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.trustyetc.com\/trustyblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.trustyetc.com\/trustyblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=432"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.trustyetc.com\/trustyblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/432\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.trustyetc.com\/trustyblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=432"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.trustyetc.com\/trustyblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=432"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.trustyetc.com\/trustyblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=432"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}