Updated on April 20, 2021 at 4:04 pm
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TeachersCan and DonorsChoose are teaming up to fund up to $1.5 million worth of class projects around Texas through a donation-matching campaign.
Before the campaign starts, teachers are encouraged to send their classroom projects to DonorsChoose.org/teachers by April 26 to be considered for funding. On the site, there is an option to create a project and requests critical classroom materials for their students.
Download our NBC DFW mobile app for Apple or Android to get alerts for local breaking news and weather. The need for classroom resources is always high, but the impacts of COVID and the learning loss resulting from the pandemic have exacerbated the need for more support for our teachers and students, said Dr. Shari Albright, president of the Raise Your Hand Texas Foundation, a #TeachersCan partner. Over the last year, teachers have demonstrated incredible resilience, adaptability, and innovation, and now we hope Texans w
Priced out of Southtown, SAY Sí goes west click to enlarge Stephanie Stokes / SA Heron / @estefotografa “What happened in Southtown and the Blue Star area is that it’s become gentrified,” said Jon Hinojosa, SAY Sí’s executive director, on the nonprofit’s move to the West Side. In late 2019, SAY Sí, the youth arts education nonprofit that’s been operating in San Antonio since 1994, announced that it would leave its longtime home, a renovated 26,000-square-foot commercial building at 1518 S. Alamo St., across Probandt from its original site in the Blue Star Arts Complex. “We really thought that was going to be our home forever,” says Jon Hinojosa, SAY Sí’s long-time executive director. As demand for its programs grew over the years, Hinojosa says,