DonorsChoose

You may remember back in June when ScienceBloggers successfully raised over $30,000 for various science & math teaching projects in schools around the country. Now that the school year has started, the materials this effort helped fund are in use in classroom and we are all receiving e-mails of gratitude from teachers who often work with disadvantaged children in poor school districts.

If you wish, you can always continue adding to the funds for the science projects - just click on this button:

Alternatively, you may want to pick your own from around the country, or from a particular state. Since I am in North Carolina, and a number of my readers are local to me, here is a button for our state's challenge:

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