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Utah Business Report March 21, 2014


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This is Lane Beattie of the Salt Lake Chamber with your Utah Business Report.

AT&T is collaborating with DonorsChoose to help make resources available to teachers and students that don't have the materials they need in the classroom.

Teachers can post classroom projects for which they need funding on DonorsChoose, an online platform that makes it easy to help classrooms in need, where they can spread the word to let other people know about the program. It's a little like a wedding or baby registry—just with less monogramming. As soon as a project is funded, the books, art supplies, field trips, technology, and other resources needed to create new, engaging learning experiences are shipped to the school. Donors then receive updates, photos and thank you letters from the classroom showing how the materials were used.

For the next few weeks, as part of AT&T's commitment to education through AT&T Aspire, the company is doing a 250-thousand dollar matching campaign for classroom projects costing below two-thousand dollars at schools in high need. So, if a Utah high school biology teacher creates a project requesting microscopes costing one thousand dollars, once the project receives $500 in funding, AT&T will match the remaining $500 to complete the project. What a great way to help improve education! This is Justin Jones in for Lane Beattie on KSL News Radio.

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