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November 3, 2010

Adopt-A-Classroom: Selected for next round of Members Project!

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Adopt-A-Classroom is very excited to have been selected to participate in the next round of Members Project voting! This means that we will have a chance to win $200,000 in funding from American Express through Members Project - as long as we get enough votes. The next round of voting starts on Monday, November 29; here’s how it works:

Anyone can vote - no need to be an American Express cardholder
Voting requires a one-time registration which takes 1-2 minutes
Voters makes one vote during each week of the campaign (there will be 12 weeks total).
Voters can only vote for 1 charity only per week (not one charity per category).

There are so many more students and teachers that Adopt-A-Classroom could help and if we won the $200,000 in funding, we would use it to improve and expand our program in order to provide resources to more classrooms.

We will keep you posted when voting begins. You can also stay up to date with us through Facebook - please ‘Like’ our page at www.facebook.com/adoptaclassroom - or on Twitter @adopt_classroom.

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October 7, 2010

Adopt-A-Classroom: A Day Made Better for 1,000 Teachers

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Tuesday, October 5, OfficeMax and Adopt-A-Classroom celebrated ‘A Day Made Better’ by surprising over 1,000 very deserving teachers across the United States each with $1,000 worth of school supplies.

Last week, the Jonas Brothers showed their continued support for teachers and students by helping to kick off the annual ‘A Day Made Better’ campaign with our national sponsor, OfficeMax. They surprised the entire teaching staff of Los Feliz Charter School for the Arts in Los Angeles with $25,000 worth of school supplies from OfficeMax on behalf of the cause campaign. Check out the video above and the details in the press release here!

In 2007, Adopt-A-Classroom and OfficeMax created the ‘A Day Made Better’ campaign to bring awareness to the issue of teachers paying money out of their own pockets, anywhere between $600-$1,000 annually, to make up for inadequate classroom supplies.

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September 30, 2010

Adopt-A-Classroom: Find us at the NYSSBA Convention ~ Oct 21-24

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Coming up in October is the New York State School Boards Association’s annual convention in New York City (October 21-24). Adopt-A-Classroom will be hosting a panel session titled “Engaging Your Community to Support Teachers and Raise Classroom Funds” on Saturday, October 23rd at 1:00pm. If you are attending the convention, please drop by to say hello - our Executive Director, James Rosenberg, will be moderating the panel session.

Adopt-A-Classroom was also selected as the Community Project at the NYSSBA convention. We will be on the trade show floor on Friday and Saturday at the NYSSBA Services Booth. Attendees will have the opportunity to adopt classrooms and learn more about how the program can help with school fundraising in districts across New York state.

The convention is held at the Sheraton Hotel, just north of Times Square! Depending on whether you like the hustle and bustle, this could be a plus or minus. However, when we attended last year’s convention, we found it entertaining to be in the middle of the mix.

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August 5, 2010

Adopt-A-Classroom: Contest Alert!

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We bet you’re gearing up for Back-to-School already — at Adopt-A-Classroom, we certainly are! There are a number of great partnerships that we’re involved with across the country. It’s our hope that these programs create awareness and encourage people to support your classrooms by making donations at AdoptAClassroom.org. When we’re able to announce details about these partnerships, we’ll share them with you at our blog.

For now, we found two contests that you may want to look at. They are not associated with Adopt-A-Classroom in any way, but we thought they might of interest:

1. REALLY GOOD STUFF’s Classroom Makeover Contest

Teachers that are redecorating their classroom for the new school year have a chance to win a $100 shopping spree from Really Good Stuff. They’re in search of the most creative classroom ‘makeover’.
We know that so many teachers often spend their own money to turn their classroom into a vibrant place of learning. So in addition to using Adopt-A-Classroom as a resource to raise money for classroom supplies, this is a neat opportunity to win a little extra money.

To participate, you’ll have to post 2 photos (1 before and 1 after of your classroom) or a video to the Really Good Stuff Facebook page. You can find all the contest rules here: http://blog.reallygoodstuff.com/?p=3871. The contest ends August 29, 2010.

2. BOUNTY’s Art Classroom Makeover

Bounty is hosting a “Make a Clean Difference” contest that will award one school with an art classroom makeover worth$25,000 designed by a celebrity design team.

10 finalists will also be awarded $5,000 grant to use toward transforming their school art rooms, along with a visit from their “Make-A-Messterpiece” activity bus, an experiential art studio on wheels.
You can go to Facebook.com/Bounty for more details. Nominations will be accepted until August 9, 2010.

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July 22, 2010

Adopt-A-Classroom: Bloggers can help to raise $10K

Filed under: Adopt-A-Classroom Updates — Tags: adopt classroom, classroom grant, Elmer's, school donation, school supplies — 150 @ 10:06 pm

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For Back-to-School this year, Elmer’s pledged to donate $10,000 to Adopt-A-Classroom as part of its Bag It Forward campaign. Anyone who has a blog can help to raise $10 just by writing a blog post! Here’s how it works:

Elmer’s will donate $10 per each post written to Adopt-A-Classroom, up to $10,000. Bloggers participate by giving away a virtual bag of school supplies and creating a blog post with the specific rules listed at the Bag It Forward site (click here).

This starts today, July 22, and ends midnight EST on Thursday, August 12.

If you don’t blog yourself, please tell any friends that do and have them participate.

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July 13, 2010

Adopt-A-Classroom: Supporting Classrooms in Nashville

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Being based in South Florida, the Adopt-A-Classroom team is familiar with the damage that heavy waters can cause. So our hearts went out to everyone who experienced the floods in Tennessee last month. While we were saddened by the destruction and losses, it was also heartening to see the outpour of support that followed. We were very glad to learn that schools received attention as well. In fact, on June 10th, Lady Antebellum held a fundraising concert benefiting schools in Nashville!

For this concert, OfficeMax, one of Adopt-A-Classroom’s national sponsors, committed $50,000 to a fundraising challenge that matched every dollar donated for Nashville-area schools up to a total of $50,000. The money will help replenish much needed classroom supplies for the schools affected by the floods.

While classes are out for the summer, you can still support our students and teachers in Nashville and all across Tennessee and, in fact, throughout the United States. We know that the teachers would sure be happy to have a classroom grant and donated funds available for when school starts up again in August/September. Just go to www.AdoptAClassroom.org.

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