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The Big Hearted Squids Support Teachers & Classrooms

Bonnie Diczhazy by Bonnie Diczhazy on Thu, Jun 2nd, 2011

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The Big Hearted Squids are Squidoo lensmasters who have donated more then $100 to Squidoo charities since joining Squidoo. Each month they’ve been voting on how to spend some of the funds in the Squidoo Charity Fund.

This month the Big Hearted Squids had the opportunity to help share $5,000 from the Squidoo Charity Fund to support teachers and classrooms through DonorsChoose.

Thanks to their votes Squidoo was able to fully fund the remaining classroom projects in need. Here are just two of the projects that are being funded by the Squidoo Charity Fund votes. How cool is that!

School Garden (Above Ground) – School Project: “By building this garden, we plan to incorporate math, science and health activities into the planning, building, and growing. ALL students will participate (including wheel-chair bound). Students will required to select and grow food that they can eat when harvested. Parents will also be involved.”

Reduce, Reuse, Recycle – It’s Really All About Economics! School Project: “Unlike the cardboard boxes the kids are presently scrambling with, the plastic bins requested are strong, sturdy, clean, safe and small enough for the kids to handle with ease on their own. The students will be able to continue to expand on their recycling efforts and learn more about how paper and other recyclables can be reused. The next step will be a field trip to a recycling center to witness large scale recycling and its benefits. One of the greatest benefits is how the efforts of my students affects other students in the school.“

About Bonnie Diczhazy

Bonnie Diczhazy (bdkz) is a community organizer here on Squidoo. She is Chief RocketSquid and manages the Giant Squid VIP Writers program.

Comments:

http://www.squidoo.com/lensmasters/lilyofthevalley lilyofthevalley

I love DonorsChoose. I think it’s a wonderful way to support the best education efforts out there. A hearty thank you to all of the Big-Hearted Squids that supported this wonderful cause!

http://www.squidoo.com/lensmasters/bdkz bdkz

Thanks for sharing your thoughts lilyofthevalley. I agree, DonorsChoose is such a great charity! And Yay! to the Big Hearted Squids.

http://www.squidoo.com/lensmasters/Ruthi Ruthi

A wondrous thing Squidoo lensmasters are doing here!
http://www.squidoo.com/lensmasters/Susan52 Susan52

I love that we can not only see, but help choose where our donations are going. Proud to be part of the big-hearted squids!
http://twitter.com/kab_fabulous kab_fabulous

I wish there was a little forum or something someplace where the Big Hearted Squids could gather to brainstorm our ideas on how to best use this platform to raise money for charity and ways to use it, etc.

Megan Casey

You know, I do too. We tried that a few summers ago (3 years ago, I think) with the Squidoo Activists Club that ran in a members only Basecamp (kind of like Ning), but I think it lead to a lot of brainstorming and not a lot of action. At the time our goal was for lensmasters to work with their offline communities (PTAs, soccer leagues, etc) to stage virtual lenscrafting fundraisers for their favorite charities. Like, instead of having a real bake sale, invite 100 people to make lenses about their favorite desserts — and donate those lens earnings to charity. Great in theory, not so great in results.

Maybe there’s a simpler way to just let Big Hearted Squids chat about how they use their own lenses for charity, instead of trying to organize something bigger.

Always open to ideas on this, and very open to supporting lensmasters who want to help lead it.