In our new success list diary, The Inoculation Project (TIP) will track science and math projects #1201+ that have been fully funded through DonorsChoose after being featured by our group and supported by Daily Kos readers.
Our regular TIP diary will post at 9:00am CT on Sunday with our currently featured projects, which can always be found on TIP’s blog page.
About TIP: Founded in 2009, The Inoculation Project is an ongoing, volunteer effort to crowdfund science, math, and literacy projects for public schools in low-income neighborhoods.
We focus on those schools because, as How Unequal School Funding Punishes Poor Kids points out,
About four in 10 students attend schools in districts with poverty rates of upwards of 75 percent, which perpetuates the structural poverty that keeps families trapped in poor communities with impoverished schools.
Underfunding education doesn’t just leave the most vulnerable children ill-prepared for the world, it makes the world a crueler and more divided place to grow up in.
As always, our conduit is DonorsChoose, a 501(c)(3) not-for-profit corporation that facilitates tax-deductible donations to specific, vetted projects in public schools.
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