Making donations
Info for donors about projects, teachers and schools
- How to subscribe to updates from teachers and schools
- Amount of your donation
- Vetting classroom projects
- Contacting a teacher
- Donating to a teacher who doesn't have an active project
- How is a school's economic need level defined at DonorsChoose.org?
Promo codes
Your donor account
- Your donor account
- Expired account credits and gift cards
- Adding credits to your account
- Unsubscribing from DonorsChoose.org emails
- Enabling cookies and JavaScript in your browser
- Donation receipt for tax purposes
Ways to donate
- Goop and DonorsChoose.org
- Donating using cryptocurrency
- #GivingTuesday GIVEaway 2017
- Donating during Friends & Family Pre-Funding
- Is my donation amount private?
- Sending a check donation
Gift cards
Automatic monthly donations
Giving pages
Employee matching
Teachers: Registering or creating a project
Registering for a teacher account
- ★ Which teachers and schools can use this site?
- DonorsChoose.org National Teacher Ambassador Program
- 404 Error when activating your account
- Creating a teacher account
- Which teachers can use this site?
- Unable to find your school when registering for a teacher account
Rules & Responsibilities
- Resources for School Board Members
- Your School District + DonorsChoose.org + #BestSchoolDay
- What happens to your projects if you are no longer eligible to receive grants from DonorsChoose.org?
- Teacher responsibilities when using DonorsChoose.org
- How we involve your principal and colleagues in your project
- Information for school principals & administrators
Managing your account (teachers)
- Announcing a new type of school on DonorsChoose.org: Schools Serving Military Communities
- A new look for your projects page
- How is my profile photo different from my classroom photo?
- Guidelines for your teacher profile photo
- Your teacher account
- Helping another teacher use DonorsChoose.org
Creating a project
- ★ Where to Find Commonly Requested Items
- Warmth Care & Hunger Winter Clothing Shopping Guide
- What is a Warmth, Care & Hunger project?
- Technology projects: lessons learned
- Friends & Family Pre-Funding
- Your guide for creating a stellar project
Troubleshooting common problems
- For email system administrators: whitelisting DonorsChoose.org IP addresses
- Can't log in to a recently created account
- Troubleshooting tips for shopping in our vendor directory
- Add "safe senders" in your email account
- Converting an email or web page into a document you can upload
- How to save an email attachment as a document that you can upload
Class Trips & Visitors
- Payment Documents for Creating Your Class Trip, Visitor or Special Request Project
- Verifying prices for a class trip project
- Airfare for students
- Points needed to submit a class trip or visitor project
- Submitting a class trip or visitor project
- Writing one project for multiple class trips
Teachers: Managing your posted and funded projects
Promotions and funding opportunities
- ★ How it works: Match offers
- ★ Match Offers
- ★ What's a Teacher Friends & Family Code?
- 2X Match on environmental science and Earth Day projects, thanks to Johnson Ohana Foundation
- 2X Impact on financial literacy books and games, thanks to Charles Schwab Foundation
- 10X Match on Boundary County School District projects
Your project on DonorsChoose.org
- March 28, 2018 was #BestSchoolDay
- Project Resource Type
- Hurricane Irma Recovery
- How to create a smaller version of your current project
- Who donated to your project
- Fully funding a project without the optional donation
Materials for a fully funded project
- ★ Will I get my materials before the school year ends?
- #BestSchoolDay: When to expect my materials
- DonorsChoose.org Materials Ownership Policy
- Can DonorsChoose.org send project materials to your home or another address rather than to your school?
- Magazine subscription timing
- Materials that are lost or stolen from your school
Thank-you Packages
- ★ Extending the due date for a thank-you package
- Why your thank-yous haven’t arrived yet
- Summertime thank-yous for Zeal At Home projects
- Summertime thank-you packages for Zeal At Home projects
- Photos for Warmth, Care & Hunger Projects
- Thank-you package tips for Warmth, Care & Hunger projects
Special request projects
Class trips & visitors
- Uploading Payment Documents For Your Fully Funded Class Trip, Visitor or Special Request Project
- Reimbursements for a fully funded class trip or visitor project
- Canceling a fully funded class trip project
- Booking and paying for a class trip or visitor
- Expiration date for class trip projects
- Submitting payment documents for your class trip, visitor, or special request project