class wish chris davis 2013-07_19
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Kids Look Up to You
You can help them get sports equipment, just by lending your voice
You can honor your favorite coach or teacher and promote your favorite causes at the same time.
Devastating budget cuts leave schools without sports equipment and other resources
TIME Magazine Reports on the Crisis
“Many California teachers are scrambling to find fresh ways to thriftily educate their students and maintain their physically crumbling classrooms.”
Teachers now spend $1,500 a year of their own money to keep their classrooms afloat.
"I always ask business owners if they have pens with their logo on them so that I can distribute them to the students," says Nosanov Goldman, who has been teaching for 22 years. "I've never had to beg like this."
The Problem with Current School Fundraising Sales
People want to help kids, but $2 billion that they take out of their wallets actually goes to the cookie dough and wrapping paper companies, instead.
Imagine how much equipment could be provided if schools had a more efficient way to attract support.
Sales $3.7 B To schools $1.7 BLost $2.0 B
ClassWish.org Makes a Difference
ClassWish makes it easy and efficient for coaches and schools to attract support for sports equipment and other resources.
And for the first time, anyone can fund needs at any of the 125,000 schools in the country.
• Visitors make tax-deductible contributions to fund the coach or school team of their choice.
• More than 16,000 companies match employees’ donations, which doubles their funding.
• ClassWish has the items sent right to the school.
The results? Kids get the resources they need to thrive.
Visitors Can Fund the School Teams They Care About
Teachers and Coaches Are Already Getting Support
Mr. Mansfield, University Preparatory Academy: $1,555.64Ms. Irvin, Anna Julia Cooper Episcopal School: $829.80Ms. Peralta, Rocklin High: $809.68Ms. Thorn, Deneen Elementary School: $733.60Ms. Ilana, P.S. 290 Manhattan New School: $925.00Miss Henggeler, Stadley Rough School: $1,000.00Ms. Hodes, P141K@P380: $443.26Ms. Yacenda, Mott Hall Bronx High School: $763.59 Ms. Mcburney, Larry Miller Intermediate Elem School: $500.00 Ms. Lindsay, P.S. 112 Jose C. Barbosa School: $800.00Ms. Guarriello, Waterside Children's Studio School: $1,943.91Ms. Kim, University Preparatory Academy: $617.33 Ms. Buensuceso, University Preparatory Academy: $957.43 Ms. Guarriello, PS- 317 Waterside Children's Studio: $1,943.91Ms. Lindsay, P.S. 112 Jose C. Barbosa School: $800.00
Visitors Can Support Any of 125,000 K-12 Schools
Visitors can fund sports equipment or other resources for the school of their choice, anywhere in the country, even before the coaches create wish lists.
Easy, Efficient, and Ultimately Self-Sustaining
• Visitors make tax-deductible contributions at ClassWish.org. • The full amount, less only the discounted credit card fee, is
credited to the teacher’s wish list account.• We deduct from the teachers’ wish list accounts only the
amount they would pay if they bought the items, themselves.• ClassWish buys the items at wholesale prices and has them
shipped directly to the school. • The wholesale-retail spread will cover ClassWish’s expenses
as we get to scale. That makes our approach leveraged, scalable, and ultimately financially self-sustaining.
Experts Endorse ClassWish
“This nonprofit is a swift and inventive way for communities to unite in support of the tools that make learning more accessible for all students.” Sarah Brown Wessling National Teacher of the Year
“ClassWish helps teachers get the supplies that are so essential for children to get a great education.” Nancy Pelz-Paget Director, Aspen Institute
Chairman of ClassWish
Patrik Silen
Partner, McKinsey & Company
Graduate, Harvard Business School
ClassWish Board of Advisors (page 1 of 3)
Janis Abkowitz, MD, President, American Society of Hematology
Rahn Bailey, MD, President, National Medical Association
Richard Bernstein, former Bureau Chief, TIME and NY Times
Edward Benz Jr., MD, President and CEO, Dana Farber Cancer Institute
Jeremy Berg, PhD, President at American Society for Biochemistry and Molecular Biology
Larry Bock, Founder, USA Science & Engineering Festival
Lewis Cantley, PhD, Director, Cancer Center at Weill Cornell Medical College and New York-Presbyterian Hospital
Carlos Castillo-Chavez, Ph.D. Regents Professor, Mathematical Biology, Ariz State Univ
Joe Colaco, PhD, President, CBM Engineers
Christopher Cross, Chairman, Cross & Joftus
Scott Cutler, EVP, NYSE-Euronext
Robbert Dijkgraaf, PhD, Director, Institute for Advanced Study
Fred Dylla, PhD, Executive Director and CEO, American Institute of Physics
Esther Dyson, investor and philanthropist
ClassWish Board of Advisors (page 2 of 3)
Paul Farmer, MD, Co-Founder, Partners in Health; University Professor at Harvard Univ.
Harvey Fineberg, MD, PhD, President, Institute of Medicine; former Provost, Harvard Univ.
William Friedman, PhD, President, Public Agenda
Judy Garber, MD, Past President, American Association for Cancer Research
Phillip Griffiths, PhD, Professor Emeritus of Mathematics, Institute for Advanced Study
Adam Hirsch, SVP Emerging Media and Technology, Edelman PR
Clifford Hudis, MD, President-Elect American Society of Clinical Oncology
Melany Hunt, PhD, Vice-Provost, California Institute of Technology
Thomas Killian, PhD, Chairman, Department of Physics, Rice University
Jay Labov, PhD, Senior Advisor for Education and Communications, National Academy of Sciences
Don Levy, former Senior VP, Sony Pictures Digital
Mark Linaugh, Chief Talent Officer, WPP
Luz Martinez-Miranda, PhD, President, National Society of Hispanic Physics
Betsy Morgan, former CEO, Huffington Post
Jan Morrison, Pres & CEO, Teaching Institute for Excellence in STEM
ClassWish Board of Advisors (page 3 of 3)
Autumn Nazarian, Senior Partner, GroupM ESP Entertainment & Sports Partnerships
Karen Ostlund, PhD, President, National Science Teachers Association
Becky Wai-Ling Packard, PhD, Director, Weissman Center for Leadership, Mount Holyoke
Melanie Parker, Exec Director, Global Education & Career Development, MIT
Nancy Pelz-Paget, Director, Education Program, Aspen Institute
Greg Richmond, CEO, National Association of Charter School Authorizers
Elena Rios, MD, President, National Hispanic Medical Association
Sharon Robinson, PhD, CEO, American Association of Colleges for Teacher Education
Steve Rosenbaum, CEO, Magnify Media
Paul Rothman MD, CEO, Johns Hopkins Medicine
Charles Sawyers, MD, President-elect, American Association for Cancer Research
Tim Shey, Director, YouTube Next Lab at Google
Michael Turner PhD, President, American Physical Society
Hannah Fairfield Wallander, Senior Graphics Editor, The New York Times
Robert Weinberg, PhD, Founding Member of the Whitehead Institute for Biomedical Research and Professor of Biology at MIT
Your Voice Can Help
Lending your voice is a quick and easy way to raise awareness of the need and encourage more people to donate to provide kids with sports equipment.
Web banner PSAs that feature you will appear in fashion, lifestyle, news, school, and other websites
Photo & caption feature you
Your friends also lending their voices to help kids
You can honor your favorite teacher
Promote your otherfavorite causes
Encourage donations to fund school resources
Photos of you when young
Links to your websites
ClassWish web pages featuring celebrities will attract attention to the need and opportunity
ClassWish.org web banner ads would appear in many sports websites and blogs.
Those banners would attract space because they:•are about sports•support education of kids•are personally relevant to every reader (we support their own child’s school)•feature famous athletes
Please note: We would prepare web pages and banners featuring you, similar to the ones we show here for Shakespeare.
Kids need help.Be the solution.
Wm. Shakesepeare
Web banner ads featuring youwill generate exposure, traffic and donations
We make it quick and easy
Your page on the ClassWish web site would:•encourage donations to provide kids with sports equipment•honor your favorite coach or teacher •showcase other ways you give back•direct visitors to your own website and social media pages
ClassWish web banners featuring you would give you exposure on numerous sites and encourage visits to your ClassWish page.
We make it quick and easy: You or your publicist can provide the pictures and text. We will seek your approval before anything goes live.
Thanks to you, kids will get the sports equipment and other resources they need
Robert TolmachClassWish (917) 692-6266401 7th Avenue, level B http://ClassWish.orgNew York, NY 10001 [email protected]
Robert TolmachClassWish (917) 692-6266401 7th Avenue, level B http://ClassWish.orgNew York, NY 10001 [email protected]
Let’s Work Together to ProvideMore Kids with Sports Equipment