Classroom funding for teachers, paid to your school

Verify with your school email — that is the whole process

A teacher account is anchored to a verified school system. You sign up with your school email address and click the link in that email; that one step attaches you to your verified school and district record, with the school’s eligibility facts already in place. No administrator has to approve or confirm your account — a school administrator can see their school’s posts and flag one they are worried about, and nothing more. There are no forms to collect and no documents to chase down before you can post your first need.

Post a need with real line items

A classroom need is a list, not a lump sum. You name each item — the books, the headphones, the art supplies — with its quantity and its price, and the total adds itself up. Funders browsing the needs board see the same itemized table, which is what makes a classroom posting easy to say yes to: the money maps to objects a funder can picture in use. You can also post a need for volunteers or other support, and you choose whether a posting is visible to funders across the platform or only to funders you apply to.

Teachers also apply to grants directly. When a funder runs a classroom grant, your eligibility is checked against its published rules — grade levels, subjects, place — using your verified school record, and you get the same plain determination as everyone else: you qualify, you don’t and why, or the one thing that is missing.

The money rule, stated plainly

A classroom award is always paid to the school or district, or spent on the materials themselves — never as cash to a teacher personally. That rule protects you as much as the funder: the funds land in the school’s accounts, the record shows where they went, and nobody can suggest a teacher pocketed a grant. Your school’s bank information belongs to the school; you can always see where money for your classroom is paid, and only a school administrator can change it.

The close-out is deliberately light: a receipt or a photo of the materials in use, and a short thank-you note to the funder — assigned to you as tasks in the same inbox as everything else. The photo rule matters here: photos show the materials, never identifiable students.

Student privacy is a hard rule, not a setting

• No student names anywhere on the platform — not in posts, applications, messages, or check-ins.
• No photos of identifiable students.
• No grades and no student records of any kind.
• The rule is repeated at the moment it matters — on the forms and upload prompts you actually use.

These are platform hard rules; nobody can switch them off. And the cost to you is the same as for every seeker: $0 — no fee to join, to verify, to post a need, or to apply, and no percentage of any award is ever taken. Your district’s plan covers its schools and teachers; see grants for schools and districts and the pricing page.