Making donations
Info for donors about projects, teachers and schools
- Are donations to professional development projects tax deductible?
- 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
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
- Hurricane Michael: How you can help
- Hurricane Florence: How You Can Help
- Goop and DonorsChoose.org
- Donating using cryptocurrency
- #GivingTuesday GIVEaway 2017
- Donating during Friends & Family Pre-Funding
Gift cards
Automatic monthly donations
Giving pages
Employee matching
Teachers: Registering or creating a project
Registering for a teacher account
- ★ Is my role or position eligible for DonorsChoose.org?
- DonorsChoose.org National Teacher Ambassador Program
- 404 Error when activating your account
- Which teachers and schools can use this site?
- Creating a teacher account
- 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 my projects if I am no longer eligible to use 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: Projects dashboard
- How is my profile photo different from my classroom photo?
- Guidelines for your teacher profile photo
- Your teacher account
- How do I help another teacher use DonorsChoose.org ?
Creating a project
- ★ Where to find commonly requested items
- Requesting Apple Devices (iPads, iMacs, and Macbooks) for your project
- Commonly Requested Items for Professional Development Projects
- Warmth Care & Hunger Winter Clothing Shopping Guide
- What is a Warmth, Care & Hunger project?
- Technology projects: lessons learned
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
- ★ Funding Opportunities
- ★ What's a Teacher Friends & Family Code?
- 2X Match on UNICEF Kid Power Band projects, thanks to UNICEF
- Classroom Rewards for Google’s Be Internet Awesome
- 5X Match on PowerMyLearning projects, thanks to The Morgridge Family Foundation
Your project on DonorsChoose.org
- Hurricane Michael: Info for teachers
- March 28, 2018 was #BestSchoolDay
- Project Resource Type
- How to create a smaller version of your current project
- How can I tell who donated to my project?
- Fully funding a project without the suggested donation to DonorsChoose.org
Materials for a fully funded project
- Replacement Shopping: Where to find commonly unavailable items
- Hurricane Florence: Info for teachers
- How to enroll your Apple Device (iPads, MacBooks, etc) in Apple School Manager or Device Enrollment Program
- Shipping to schools affected by the California wildfires
- DonorsChoose.org Materials Ownership Policy
- Can DonorsChoose.org send project materials to your home or another address rather than to your school?
Thank-you Packages
- ★ Extending the due date for a thank-you package
- Different types of student thank-yous by grade-level
- Student thank-yous for students with special needs
- 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
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