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Delaware Valley Fairness Project provides resources to teachers for innovative projects that build needed skills, broaden student experiences or foster social-emotional and character development. We concentrate on schools serving children most affected by poverty, populations that do not have the financial means to provide support to under-resourced neighborhood schools.

Our belief is that teachers should not have to be fundraisers. They should not have to do anything more than tell us what they need, why and how their need meets our basic standards. Unlike organizations that provide platforms to allow teachers to raise funds for classroom projects and often take months before the money is available if fundraising is successful, we provide the funds to teachers upfront and take on the responsibility for raising funds ourselves. Projects we support happen when they should, not many months in the future, if at all.

DVFP’s funds are not unlimited. Having invested tens of thousands of dollars in teacher projects in under-resourced schools serving low-income communities in Philadelphia and the region, we count on donations from the public. Anyone can join in our effort. We welcome unrestricted donations and donations in support of specific subject areas (e.g., science, reading).

Some of the Programs We Have Enabled

THE ARTS

Music, Special Ed.: Music Therapy program for Special Education students
Theater, Special Ed.: Theater Arts program for Special Education students
Theater: school trips to local university theater programs

OUTDOOR LEARNING

Support for a middle-school outdoor classroom
Field Trips to Wissahickon Environmental Center
Funding for school gardens

PHYSICAL FITNESS

Fitness: Funding for fitness training for K-8 students
Fitness, Self-Discipline: Karate training for elementary school students
Soccer and volleyball equipment for multiple schools
Sport uniforms for multiple schools

READING, WRITING AND LITERACY

Reading: Materials to construct first-grade Reading Boats
Reading: An escape room experience of “Lord of the Flies” for middle school students reading the novel
Writing: Funding for in-school and after-school creative writing programs
Literacy: Books for leveled literacy programs in multiple schools
Literacy: Graphic novels for a middle school classroom

SKILLS FOR THE VISUALLY IMPAIRED

Soccer, dance and hula-hoops mobility training programs

SOCIAL-EMOTIONAL AND CHARACTER DEVELOPMENT

Leadership, Team-Building: Financial support for middle school outward-bound experiences
Social-Emotional Behavior: Books, games and supplies to assist troubled students in multiple schools
Funding for the start-up of school stores
Funding for school trips to visit suburban college campuses

STEM

Science, Gardens: Materials and supplies for student-tended school gardens
Robotics: Robots and related materials for K-8 STEM programs in multiple schools
Science: Science lab kits for fifth-graders
Life Science: A bird sanctuary to be built, maintained and studied by middle school science students
Life Science: Aquariums, fish, axolotls and picture books for kindergarten life science and care for the planet programs
Math: Materials to construct a physical ‘learn-by-experiencing’ math room for 1st graders
Makerspace Rooms: materials and funds to start or enhance makerspace rooms

Some of the Schools in Which We Have Enabled Projects

Mitchell Elementary School
Overbrook Educational Center
Penrose Elementary School
Welsh Elementary School
Moffet Elementary School
Elkin Elementary School
Castor Gardens (formerly Woodrow Wilson) Middle School
Baldi Middle School
Roxborough High School
Samuel Fels High School
Crossroads Accelerated Academy
Lamberton Elementary School
Munoz-Marin Elementary School
Stewart Middle School
Edison High School
Yorkship Family School
Girard Elementary School
Overbrook High School
Richmond School
Shawmont School

Webster Elementary School
Locke Elementary School
Julia de Burgos School
Grover Washington Middle Schl
Hartranft Elementary School
Jay Cooke Elementary School
Kirkbride Elementary School
Henry Elementary School
The U School
Thomas Holme Elementary School
James Sullivan School
John B. Kelly School
Thomas Finletter School
James J. Sullivan School
Philip Kearny School
George Childs School

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