Making donations
Info for donors about projects, 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?
- Cost of materials
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
- Donating during Friends & Family Pre-Funding
- Is my donation amount private?
- Sending a check donation
- Donating by stock transfer
- Donating safely online
- Donating through eBay's Giving Works
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?
- Back-to-School Teacher Ambassador Program (Pilot)
- 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
- 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
- User agreement highlights for teachers
- Reasons we deactivate teacher accounts
Managing your account (teachers)
- How is my profile photo different from my classroom photo?
- Guidelines for your teacher profile photo
- A new look for your teacher account
- Helping another teacher use DonorsChoose.org
- Unsubscribing from DonorsChoose.org emails: Teachers
- Reviewing your points history
Creating a project
- ★ Where to Find Commonly Requested Items
- DonorsChoose.org Welcome Week
- 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
- 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
- Substitute teachers and class trips
Teachers: Managing your posted and funded projects
Promotions and funding opportunities
- ★ How it works: Double Your Impact (one-to-one match on new donations)
- ★ Match Offers
- ★ What's a Teacher Friends & Family Code?
- Classroom Rewards for Schools that Participate in the Kindness Challenge, thanks to Stand for Children
- Double Your Impact on Vermont projects, thanks to The Argosy Foundation
- 2:1 match on financial literacy professional development projects, thanks to Charles Schwab
Your project on DonorsChoose.org
- Hurricane Irma Recovery
- Hurricane Harvey Recovery
- How to create a smaller version of your current project
- Who donated to your project
- Fully funding a project without the optional donation
- Removing the suggested donation to support DonorsChoose.org from my project
Materials for a fully funded project
- Accessing your Amazon Business SquareTrade Product Warranty
- DonorsChoose.org Materials Ownership Policy
- Winter ordering break
- Can DonorsChoose.org send project materials to your home or another address rather than to your school?
- Spring and Summer Ordering Schedule
- Magazine subscription timing
Thank-you Packages
- ★ Extending the due date for a thank-you package
- 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
- What makes a great impact letter?