ClassWish.org provides school PTAs the resources that students need. And our new referral program rewards state PTAs for letting them know about this.

“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, Education and Society Program, Aspen Institute

Experts Endorse ClassWish.org

Imagine: Well-Equipped Classrooms at Your Schools

ClassWish.org, a 501(c)(3) nonprofit, makes it easy Wish lists easily attract donations for the resources you want.

Resources for teachers you know – and more for you Simply spread the word to help all teachers and students. You will earn referral rewards to get even more resources for your own classroom.

Teachers are already getting support. So can PTAs in your state!

Mr. Mansfield, University Preparatory Academy: $1,633.58 Ms. Irvin, Anna Julia Cooper Episcopal School: $829.80

Ms. Peralta, Rocklin High: $809.68 Ms. Belolan, Waterside Children's Studio School: $1,175.00 Ms. Ilana, P.S. 290 Manhattan New School: $925.00

Miss Henggeler, Stadley Rough School: $1,002.75 Ms. Debes, Lincoln Elementary School: $1,000.00 Ms. Yacenda, Mott Hall Bronx High School: $763.59

Ms. McClellan, Gulf High School: $1,001.50 Ms. Lindsay, P.S. 112 Jose C. Barbosa School: $800.00

Ms. Guarriello, Waterside Children's Studio School: $1,943.91 Mr. Koning, White Lick Elementary School: $1,002.00 Ms. Buensuceso, University Preparatory Academy: $957.43

Ms. Guarriello, PS- 317 Waterside Children's Studio: $1,943.91 Ms. DiPrato, Sand Lake Elementary School: $2,003.00 Ms. Hutchins, Rison High School: $1,001.50

We Feel Your Pain

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

Annual sales of school fundraising merchandise total 3.7 billion But. . .

School fundraising sales show that many people want to help schoolchildren

Grandparents and graduates are scattered around the country

But fundraising sales cannot reach many of the schools’ potential supporters

• Not tax-deductible (so people do not give as much) • Not matched by 16,000 businesses that match employees’ donations • Time-consuming and disruptive • Not rewarding (people do not know where their money goes) And. . .

More problems with current school fundraising sales

$2 billion of the money people take out of their wallets to help kids actually goes to the cookie dough and wrapping paper companies instead of the schools. Imagine the classroom resources that could be provided if there were a more efficient way for schools to attract support.

Squandered support and a new opportunity

Sales $3.7 B

To schools $1.7 B

Lost $2.0 B

• Teachers, administrators, and PTA leaders easily create Wish Lists.

• Visitors (parents, grandparents, graduates, local businesses and others) see what is needed, and they make tax-deductible contributions to help.

• The full amount of the donation, less only a discounted credit card processing fee (just 2.2% and 30 cents) is credited to the teacher’s wish list account.

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

ClassWish.org: Wish Lists Provide Relief

Educators get resources from favorite vendors

Educators use donations they receive to get resources from any of our partners (we keep adding more).

ClassWish sends the items right to the educators.

We deduct from the educators’ wish list accounts only the amount they would have paid had they bought the items, themselves. No fees!

It’s quick, easy and efficient.

The Result: Students get the support they need

ClassWish.org: A different approach to better serve educators

• ClassWish welcomes every K-12 educator: teachers, student teachers, coaches, administrators, PTA/PTO leaders, and booster clubs.

• ClassWish serves all K-12 schools.

• ClassWish does not make teachers earn points to post their needs.

• ClassWish is easy. Create a wish list in minutes. No need to define an educational project or write a 400-word essay. No approvals needed.

• ClassWish wish lists never expire. No need to start all over again every four months.

• ClassWish does not charge fulfillment fees.

• ClassWish educators can use their funds as soon as donations come in.

• ClassWish educators need not raise any minimum amount, and they do not lose their money if they do not reach some target.

You may know of another nonprofit with a superficial similarity to ClassWish. Our solution is quicker, easier, more efficient, and risk-free.

Our new referral program gives State PTAs a quick and easy way to:

• help all the PTAs in their state (and all their students)

• generate extra funding to support their own important work.

It is modeled after the tremendously successful program that helped Dropbox.com grow quickly to 100 million users.

Introducing a New Referral Program

www.ClassWish.org/1389

Your State PTA gets a personal referral URL and invitation tools

You invite school PTAs in your state

Referral Program: State PTAs invite School PTAs

Referral Program: Invitations accepted

When school PTAs use your invitation URL to come to ClassWish.org and to join the site, we keep track that you recruited them.

The invited school PTAs create Wish Lists at ClassWish.org.

Parents, grandparents, graduates, local businesses and others see the Wish Lists, and they make tax-deductible donations to help. Many employers match those donations.

Referral Program: Wish Lists attract donations

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After receiving donations, school PTA leaders visit ClassWish-Vendors.org to have ClassWish send them the resources they want.

As school PTAs you recruited use donations they receive in their first year, ClassWish pays you 3% of that amount.

Referral Program: School PTAs get resources; State PTA gets rewards

3% referral reward

Of course, we cannot know exactly how much any particular school will raise or how much any State PTA will receive in referrral rewards, but the following illustrates the opportunity.

$10,000 year-1 donations to a typical school PTA you recruit

X 3% referral rewards

$300 referral rewards to your State PTA for a typical school you recruit

Size of the Referral Program Opportunity for You

Students: Students get the classroom resources they need to thrive.

Teachers: Teachers get the resources they need – without spending their own money.

Community: Supporters get an easy, rewarding, efficient, and tax-deductible way to support teachers and students.

State PTAs: You improve classrooms for students and teachers in your schools. You also earn referral rewards, which you can use to support your important work.

Everyone Wins!

Frequently Asked Questions About Wish Lists

Do you charge any fees when someone donates to a wish list?

We charge no fees! The full amount of the donation, less PayPal ‘s discounted credit card processing fee (just 2.2% and 30 cents) is credited to the wish list account.

What happens when a donor’s employer matches donations?

We credit the full amount of those matches to the wish list account.

Do you charge any fees when a school PTA uses donated funds to get resources?

No. We deduct from the wish list account only the amount they would have paid if they bought the item online. See http://ClassWish-Vendors.org. It is totally transparent.

Sounds great. How do you cover your expenses?

We consolidate buying power to get discounts or rebates from vendors, and the spread helps cover our expenses without having to charge fees to donors or educators.

Do you really make it quick and easy?

Yes. You can be up and running and ready to receive donations in less than five minutes. See sample wish lists at http://classwish.org/schools/128413-Sample-Elementary-School

Frequently Asked Questions About Referrals

How do you keep track of which school PTAs we have recruited?

When school PTAs use your invitation URL to come to ClassWish.org and to join the site, we credit you with recruiting them.

Do school PTAs have to join ClassWish on their first visit for me to get credit?

No, but they must use your invitation URL to access the site when they do join.

Will I be able to see who I have recruited?

Yes, it is totally transparent.

What is the easiest way to invite school PTAs?

We will provide you a web page with personalized tools, including email messages, social media messages, and flyers that you can distribute.

Do referral rewards come out of donations to invited school PTAs?

No, deals with our vendors cover the referral rewards.

Appendix: ClassWish’s Leadership

ClassWish is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit.

Our leadership is shown on the following pages.

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

Martha N. Hill, PhD, RN, FAAN, Former Dean, Johns Hopkins University School of Nursing

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

We look forward to sending resources to your school PTAs and referral rewards to your State PTA!

Let’s Talk!

Robert Tolmach

ClassWish (917) 692-6266

401 7th Avenue, level B http://ClassWish.org

New York, NY 10001 rtolmach@ClassWish.org