Kids Look Up to You

You can help them get sports equipment, just by lending your voice

You can honor your favorite coach or teacher and promote your favorite causes at the same time.

Devastating budget cuts leave schools without sports equipment and other resources

TIME Magazine Reports on the Crisis

“Many California teachers are scrambling to find fresh ways to thriftily educate their students and maintain their physically crumbling classrooms.”

Teachers now spend $1,500 a year of their own money to keep their classrooms afloat.

"I always ask business owners if they have pens with their logo on them so that I can distribute them to the students," says Nosanov Goldman, who has been teaching for 22 years. "I've never had to beg like this."

The Problem with Current School Fundraising Sales

People want to help kids, but $2 billion that they take out of their wallets actually goes to the cookie dough and wrapping paper companies, instead.

Imagine how much equipment could be provided if schools had a more efficient way to attract support.

Sales $3.7 B To schools $1.7 BLost $2.0 B

ClassWish.org Makes a Difference

ClassWish makes it easy and efficient for coaches and schools to attract support for sports equipment and other resources.

And for the first time, anyone can fund needs at any of the 125,000 schools in the country.

• Visitors make tax-deductible contributions to fund the coach or school team of their choice.

• More than 16,000 companies match employees’ donations, which doubles their funding.

• ClassWish has the items sent right to the school.

The results? Kids get the resources they need to thrive.

Visitors Can Fund the School Teams They Care About

Teachers and Coaches Are Already Getting Support

Mr. Mansfield, University Preparatory Academy: $1,555.64Ms. Irvin, Anna Julia Cooper Episcopal School: $829.80Ms. Peralta, Rocklin High: $809.68Ms. Thorn, Deneen Elementary School: $733.60Ms. Ilana, P.S. 290 Manhattan New School: $925.00Miss Henggeler, Stadley Rough School: $1,000.00Ms. Hodes, P141K@P380: $443.26Ms. Yacenda, Mott Hall Bronx High School: $763.59 Ms. Mcburney, Larry Miller Intermediate Elem School: $500.00 Ms. Lindsay, P.S. 112 Jose C. Barbosa School: $800.00Ms. Guarriello, Waterside Children's Studio School: $1,943.91Ms. Kim, University Preparatory Academy: $617.33 Ms. Buensuceso, University Preparatory Academy: $957.43 Ms. Guarriello, PS- 317 Waterside Children's Studio: $1,943.91Ms. Lindsay, P.S. 112 Jose C. Barbosa School: $800.00

Visitors Can Support Any of 125,000 K-12 Schools

Visitors can fund sports equipment or other resources for the school of their choice, anywhere in the country, even before the coaches create wish lists.

Easy, Efficient, and Ultimately Self-Sustaining

• Visitors make tax-deductible contributions at ClassWish.org. • The full amount, less only the discounted credit card fee, is

credited to the teacher’s wish list account.• We deduct from the teachers’ wish list accounts only the

amount they would pay if they bought the items, themselves.• ClassWish buys the items at wholesale prices and has them

shipped directly to the school. • The wholesale-retail spread will cover ClassWish’s expenses

as we get to scale. That makes our approach leveraged, scalable, and ultimately financially self-sustaining.

Experts Endorse ClassWish

“This nonprofit is a swift and inventive way for communities to unite in support of the tools that make learning more accessible for all students.” Sarah Brown Wessling National Teacher of the Year

“ClassWish helps teachers get the supplies that are so essential for children to get a great education.” Nancy Pelz-Paget Director, Aspen Institute

Chairman of ClassWish

Patrik Silen

Partner, McKinsey & Company

Graduate, Harvard Business School

ClassWish Board of Advisors (page 1 of 3)

Janis Abkowitz, MD, President, American Society of Hematology

Rahn Bailey, MD, President, National Medical Association

Richard Bernstein, former Bureau Chief, TIME and NY Times

Edward Benz Jr., MD, President and CEO, Dana Farber Cancer Institute

Jeremy Berg, PhD, President at American Society for Biochemistry and Molecular Biology

Larry Bock, Founder, USA Science & Engineering Festival 

Lewis Cantley, PhD, Director, Cancer Center at Weill Cornell Medical College and New York-Presbyterian Hospital

Carlos Castillo-Chavez, Ph.D. Regents Professor, Mathematical Biology, Ariz State Univ

Joe Colaco, PhD, President, CBM Engineers

Christopher Cross, Chairman, Cross & Joftus

Scott Cutler, EVP, NYSE-Euronext

Robbert Dijkgraaf, PhD, Director, Institute for Advanced Study

Fred Dylla, PhD, Executive Director and CEO, American Institute of Physics

Esther Dyson, investor and philanthropist

ClassWish Board of Advisors (page 2 of 3)

Paul Farmer, MD, Co-Founder, Partners in Health; University Professor at Harvard Univ.

Harvey Fineberg, MD, PhD, President, Institute of Medicine; former Provost, Harvard Univ. 

William Friedman, PhD, President, Public Agenda

Judy Garber, MD, Past President, American Association for Cancer Research

Phillip Griffiths, PhD, Professor Emeritus of Mathematics, Institute for Advanced Study

Adam Hirsch, SVP Emerging Media and Technology, Edelman PR

Clifford Hudis, MD, President-Elect American Society of Clinical Oncology

Melany Hunt, PhD, Vice-Provost, California Institute of Technology

Thomas Killian, PhD, Chairman, Department of Physics, Rice University

Jay Labov, PhD, Senior Advisor for Education and Communications, National Academy of Sciences

Don Levy, former Senior VP, Sony Pictures Digital

Mark Linaugh, Chief Talent Officer, WPP

Luz Martinez-Miranda, PhD, President, National Society of Hispanic Physics

Betsy Morgan, former CEO, Huffington Post

Jan Morrison, Pres & CEO, Teaching Institute for Excellence in STEM 

ClassWish Board of Advisors (page 3 of 3)

Autumn Nazarian, Senior Partner, GroupM ESP Entertainment & Sports Partnerships 

Karen Ostlund, PhD, President, National Science Teachers Association

Becky Wai-Ling Packard, PhD, Director, Weissman Center for Leadership, Mount Holyoke

Melanie Parker, Exec Director, Global Education & Career Development, MIT

Nancy Pelz-Paget, Director, Education Program, Aspen Institute

Greg Richmond, CEO, National Association of Charter School Authorizers

Elena Rios, MD, President, National Hispanic Medical Association

Sharon Robinson, PhD, CEO, American Association of Colleges for Teacher Education

Steve Rosenbaum, CEO, Magnify Media

Paul Rothman MD, CEO, Johns Hopkins Medicine

Charles Sawyers, MD, President-elect, American Association for Cancer Research

Tim Shey, Director, YouTube Next Lab at Google

Michael Turner PhD, President, American Physical Society

Hannah Fairfield Wallander, Senior Graphics Editor, The New York Times

Robert Weinberg, PhD, Founding Member of the Whitehead Institute for Biomedical Research and Professor of Biology at MIT

Your Voice Can Help

Lending your voice is a quick and easy way to raise awareness of the need and encourage more people to donate to provide kids with sports equipment.

Web banner PSAs that feature you will appear in fashion, lifestyle, news, school, and other websites

Photo & caption feature you

Your friends also lending their voices to help kids

You can honor your favorite teacher

Promote your otherfavorite causes

Encourage donations to fund school resources

Photos of you when young

Links to your websites

ClassWish web pages featuring celebrities will attract attention to the need and opportunity

ClassWish.org web banner ads would appear in many sports websites and blogs.

Those banners would attract space because they:•are about sports•support education of kids•are personally relevant to every reader (we support their own child’s school)•feature famous athletes

Please note: We would prepare web pages and banners featuring you, similar to the ones we show here for Shakespeare.

Kids need help.Be the solution.

Wm. Shakesepeare

Web banner ads featuring youwill generate exposure, traffic and donations

We make it quick and easy

Your page on the ClassWish web site would:•encourage donations to provide kids with sports equipment•honor your favorite coach or teacher •showcase other ways you give back•direct visitors to your own website and social media pages

ClassWish web banners featuring you would give you exposure on numerous sites and encourage visits to your ClassWish page.

We make it quick and easy: You or your publicist can provide the pictures and text. We will seek your approval before anything goes live.

Thanks to you, kids will get the sports equipment and other resources they need

Robert TolmachClassWish (917) 692-6266401 7th Avenue, level B http://ClassWish.orgNew York, NY 10001 rtolmach@ClassWish.org

Robert TolmachClassWish (917) 692-6266401 7th Avenue, level B http://ClassWish.orgNew York, NY 10001 rtolmach@ClassWish.org

Let’s Work Together to ProvideMore Kids with Sports Equipment