What is 'DonorsChoose Featured Favorites'? – Help Center

DonorsChoose Featured Favorites is a vendor that teachers can select when shopping for DonorsChoose project materials or replacements. This store is managed by an internal DonorsChoose team and specializes in a curated selection of hundreds of inclusive resources from more than 50 small businesses, including underrepresented creators and business owners.

Teachers can easily shop for representative resources, award-winning social emotional learning tools, and books to add diverse voices and perspectives into their classroom libraries. The team at DonorsChoose Featured Favorites has created more than 100 book bundles by theme and age level, so every teacher can find the right fit for their students. Shop “Book Bundles from DonorsChoose Featured Favorites” to see these book sets from underrepresented authors.

Best of all, the resources teachers see when shopping DonorsChoose Featured Favorites are available and ready-to-ship!

What materials are available?

DonorsChoose Featured Favorites carries a wide range of resources from growing brands including:

Art Supplies

More Than Peach
Stapledon Arts

Educational Kits & Games

Almadé (previously The Salvaged Sawhorse)
American Paper Optics
Axol & Friends
Breathing Pal
Brown Toy Box
Calm Strips
Celestial Buddies
ChompShop (ChompSaw)
Clixo
Copper & Brass Paper Goods
Curls Poppin’
Darlyng & Co
Feppy
Financial Joy School (LEGACY!)
Hugimals World
Joeydolls
Kids for Culture
KiwiCo
Marmals
Mary Likes Postcards
MEAVIA Toys
Millennial Lotería
Ninja Life Hacks
Puzzle Huddle
Puzzles of Color
Rainbow Quest!
Slumberkins
Solobo Toys
STEM Powered Kits
Sticker Bull
Teni & Tayo Creations
The Calm Caterpillar
The Magnus Company
The Woobles
Trivia For Us
Upbounders by Little Likes Kids
Urban Intellectuals
Yellow Scope
Zuri & Dre

Books

A Kids Book About
AsianBossGirl
Beautiful Curly Me
Blue Star Press
Birchbark Books
CAFFE Strategies, LLC (My Brain, My Beautiful Brain)
Charlesbridge
Chronicle Books
Con Todo Press
COYCO Creative (Behind the Little Red Door series)
Families Belong Together (Coloring Without Borders)
Family Full Of Love, LLC
Lil’ Libros
Heartdrum from HarperCollins
HBCU Prep School
HBCU Ready
Hey Carter! Books
Inspire to Create LLC (A Little SPOT series)
It’s An Afro
Lee & Low Books
MahoganyBooks
Minnesota Historical Society Press
QW Holdings LLC (Like Me series)
Sí Sabo Kids
Rebel Girls
Resilient Kids
Sepia Works (Callaloo)
The Quarto Group (This Book is Anti-Racist)
WEBTOON
Worldwide Buddies
Z2 Comics

Classroom Basics

All Very Goods (AVG DC)
BAZIC Products
Copper & Brass Paper Goods
Madisi

Food Clothing & Hygiene

Black Girl Sunscreen
Browndages
Hustle Clean
Oh-Mazing Food
MadeGood
Pipsnacks
Partake Foods
Reli Health
SoaPen

Instructional Technology

BrightFingers (MirrorMeThis)

Reading Nooks

Ashley Laren Art
Circuit Breaker Labs / Because Science

Sports & Exercise Equipment

POWERHANDZ

In addition, DonorsChoose Featured Favorites carries other classroom must-have items, including:

“Fidgets from DonorsChoose Featured Favorites” for all age levels
“Game Bundles from DonorsChoose Featured Favorites”
“Book & Buddy” featured character plush toys with their book(s)
Social emotional learning tools, including sensory toys
Cases or multi-packs of pre-sharpened pencils
Wireless voice amplifiers
Dry erase boards & markers, including value packs of EXPO
Kids’ face masks
Backpacks with classroom basics (elementary)

This store is a curated selection of products that the DonorsChoose team purchases in advance from small businesses and fulfills directly. Some items may have quantity limits while shopping to ensure that popular resources can be sent to more classrooms.

If we run out of stock, the product will be removed from the store and teachers will no longer be able to cart it when creating a project or shopping for replacements.

When will I get my materials?

DonorsChoose Featured Favorites works similarly to our other vendors. Once a project has been fully funded and confirmed, we’ll order the materials. The teacher will receive updates with shipping information once the resources are on their way!

For more questions about getting funded project materials, please click here.