DonorsChoose.org, recently recognized by Amazon.com as the Internet’s most innovate non-profit organization, celebrated its first year in Chicago at a birthday party thrown by pupils and staff at the Cooper Elementary Dual Language Academy on the West Side.
The party was arranged to thank DonorsChoose for funding several classroom projects during the past year through the organization’s partnership with the Chicago Public Schools.
DonorsChoose works by allowing teachers to post on its Web site a list of needs, such as books and materials, costing no more than $1,000. Donors can then help a specific school.
At the event, adults and pupils shared two Eli’s Cheesecake birthday cakes, one twice the size of the other.
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“It was great,” CPS spokesman Tim Tuten said. “The whole idea was, we’re making a bigger cake that we can all share. We’re always about fighting for our pieces of the pie or of the cake, and here we’re saying you can have your cake and eat it too.”