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maybe if google paid their taxes you wouldnt have this problem, you have to admire their chutzpa though,
they want to get involved in public education but dont want to pay for it at all,
meantime your schools have to beg for pencils http://www.donorschoose.org/

you should be running them out of all education/government contracts

In the press release, the National Parks Foundation and Google left no doubt that this was intended to be a for-girls-only event The Google for Education blog also drove home this point: "Earlier this year, we introduced a program called Made with Code to inspire millions of girls to try coding, and help them understand the creative things they can do with computer science. Starting today on madewithcode.com, girls can use the introductory programming language Blockly to animate the lights of the state and territory trees that will decorate President's Park, one of America's 401 national parks and home to the White House, through the holiday season." BTW, Google did require kids to declare their gender on other sites (Khan Academy, Codecademy) so that public school teachers would only receive $1,000+ in funding rewards for encouraging girls to code. A current Google-Codecademy promo takes things further, asking kids to declare their gender and race, apparently to exclude all boys from a $100 per-student reward ("gift codes will be distributed only to girls"}, and white/Asian boys from a $1,000 per-10-students bonus ("Why is the bonus funding specifically geared for girls and students of color?").

http://www.donorschoose.org/

You are better off donating on a local level:
http://www.ehow.com/how_4457323_donate-supplies-local-teachers.html
http://www.donorschoose.org/
http://volunteerguide.org/volunteer/fewhours/school-supplies.htm


Schools are happy to accept your donations, sometimes you can even get a letter or some great cards from the children who benefit from your donations. There are also plenty of organizations dedicated to helping specific communities. I would rather not filter my donation through the federal government.

I believe my local Target has a board in front with letters from schools they have made donations to.

I recently saw that that the a 'Restoring Truthiness' (Stephen Colbert rally) charity on DonorsChoose.org was requesting iPads.

http://www.donorschoose.org/donors/proposal.html?id=439788&challengeid=39361

My students need iPads to assist them in English, Social details
Studies and Creative Writing!

Creating writing on iPads with one of the worst input methods among electronic devices? But it worked, they collected $10,000+. In some countries you can build a school with that instead of contributing to Apple's really fat margins.

Atleast with MS, you can run what you want, but with iPads? http://www.businessinsider.com/latest-app-store-rejection-outrage-apple-rejects-app-that-teaches-kids-to-program-2010-4

Sigh, the things that shiny baubles can get people to do....

The DonorsChoose fund drive page that redditors have been giving to in droves to get Colbert's attention.

Please also donate, if you can.

This is getting a bit off-topic, but have you considered submitting a project funding request to DonorsChoose.org? Your goal seems worthwhile, and the money required wouldn't be huge; you'd be a good candidate, I think.

Give to Donors Choose.org. You can browse around for a classroom that you like, for a project that you like, and you give money directly to it. From there, the classroom will send you thank you notes and give you warm fuzzies.

Generally speaking, it's a good way to give back. Most schools don't want you to just come in, dump some old equipment on them and leave. They want new equipment and all the warranties etc. There's a little bit of overhead on the charity, but it's within acceptable ranges.