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Ms. Elwell from Lisbon Falls ME is requesting art supplies through DonorsChoose, the most trusted classroom funding site for teachers.

The Lord Of The Rings

Help me give my students a Rayson TD -132 Binding Machine to teach them how to create their very own notebooks and journals.

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Celebrating Hispanic & Latinx Heritage Month

Celebrate Hispanic & Latinx Heritage Month

This project is a part of the Hispanic & Latinx Heritage Month celebration because it supports a Latino teacher or a school where the majority of students are Latino.

My Project

Help my high school enrichment program by supporting my students with a binding machine and binding coils. Students in this program learn how to create, and bind their own notebooks, and journals to use in their classes, or for their personal use. We have been offering this enrichment for two years now, students love the feeling of writing on their very unique creation.

Your help, and donation for this materials will give my students a real knowledge of how real (store bought) notebooks, journals, and planners are created.

As the teacher of this enrichment, I have taken multiple classes, and I have done extensive research of methods, and materials. I also have my personal workshop at home, which I do as a side activity. Students learn different binding techniques, starting with older methods like hand-stitching, and adhesive until modern binding coils, and plastic spirals.

The creation of this books helps them create interest in increasing a skill that later in life could use to be business owners, or maybe to have their own printing/binding shop.

They use their made books to take notes for their classes, or even as their journals. Students also have made them for nice gifts for family and friends. All of this is taught to be hand-crafted and to use their own creation.

Ms. Elwell
Grades 9-12
  • Lisbon High School
  • Lisbon Falls, ME
    • More than a third of students from low‑income households

    This project will reach 70 students.

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Where Your Donation Goes

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Materials Cost Quantity Total
Rayson TD-132 Binding Machine Punch 12 Sheets/Bind 120 Sheets with Sturdy Metal Construction • Amazon Business $118.98 1 $118.98
20 Pcs Cinch Wire Binding Wire Twin Binding Spines Twin Loop Wire Binding Spines Double Spiral Binding Ring Coil for Teacher Student Document Notebook File Making (Fresh Colors, 1 Inch) • Amazon Business $16.99 1 $16.99

Materials cost

$135.97

Vendor shipping charges

 FREE

Sales tax

 $6.80

3rd party payment processing fee

$2.04

Fulfillment labor & materials

$30.00

Total project cost

$174.81

Suggested donation to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

$30.85

Total project goal

$205.66

How we calculate what's needed

Total project goal

 $205.66

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 $205.66

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