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educators are so important in need our
support both in and outside the
classroom and here to tell us more about
a way we can show our support we have
Amy Crawford with us a teacher over at
Burlington elementary school thank you
so much for coming thank you for having
me so talk to us about the kind of
support that teachers you know both in
our area and across the country need
because the teachers are so important
absolutely we always need support
volunteers parents support but then we
also need financial support not just
money but also just supplies are always
a great thing and from as simple as a
pencil and eraser to printers and ink
and things to help projects in our
classroom and then this obviously
there's there's many ways so let's talk
about donorschoose.org which is
something that I'm pretty unfamiliar
with it's a great program a lady at my
church that's a kindergarten teacher
marnik City actually introduced me to it
and it's a great opportunity for people
all over the country to donate to
projects here in Roanoke and all over
the United States I've had people from
California and New York support projects
that I've put out there really so you
just put a project on there and then
people can just go on and say okay well
I want to donate to this cause in this
car absolutely and there's different
themes for example I have one for
financial literacy that I put out there
and I use it with some of my students
they're learning money and learning how
to count money or recognize coins and if
I put it out there and somebody I woke
up the next morning and somebody from
California had supported it and said
that financial literacy was important to
them and they had searched on
donorschoose.org and found that project
and and funded it so it was great that
is so cool
so let's talk about how you found this
resource you said it was through another
teacher another teacher arms that
teachers she teaches in Roanoke City she
teaches kindergarten and she has done a
couple of projects to support her
classroom and she was like I think it's
a great opportunity being a title one
school that also helps with that type of
a program and so I went on checked it
out she was kind of my guide through
everything and if you find that a lot of
teachers are using this I do and since
you know when the packages arrived at
school the teachers are like where did
you get that and I explained it to them
and so we
have a couple of teachers at burlington
now that are using it and other schools
throughout the county is so exciting so
obviously you're here to talk about
DonorsChoose um but donorschoose.org and
BJ's Wholesale actually has a little bit
of a surprise for you
so in for the teachers across the area
so I'm going to introduce you to a lady
named Christie Christie is the
communication director for Christie go
ahead well you might have heard that
BJ's Wholesale Club is opening this fall
in Roanoke right we are committed to
helping families thrive and I'm really
excited because we just donated $50,000
to donorschoose.org to fund Roanoke
classroom project good Amy all of the
projects you had posted were just funded
by BJ's I know you spoken for playground
balls I think I've got some extra one
for you to do but we're really excited
to be coming to the community you're
welcome so tell us a little bit about
why BJ's Wholesale wanted to get
involved with donorschoose.org sure BJ's
Wholesale Club has a long history of
being committed to our communities and
it's really important for us to give
back where we live and work so we are
thrilled to be partnering with
DonorsChoose and helping classrooms in
the area and helping families thrive wow
thank you so much for that so what does
this mean like for you and and for the
students oh absolutely I mean some of
the projects we have funded one earned
that we had posted was for an intramural
basketball league to start next year so
very excited to have that to start and I
mean it takes the pressure off of trying
to figure out you know to kind of manage
that the stipend that we get from the
county it allows us to go above and
beyond that so thank you so much we're
so happy to do it
yeah I mean that's so exciting so if
somebody wants to find out more about
BJ's Wholesale you all are opening up so
soon we are opening this fall and you
can visit BJ's comm slash Roanoke or
stop by our hospitality Center what a
great way to donorschoose.org right yes
absolutely
yeah you wanna recap with this you can
go to our website go to daytime Blue
Ridge comm we'll have a link to their
websites as well