Ways to support

As a Teach For America donor, you have the unique opportunity to directly support the work of more than 24,000 corps members and alumni as they work relentlessly to eliminate the academic achievement gap in our country.

Specifically, by supporting Teach For America, you will:

• Enable 7,300 corps members—our largest corps ever—to reach more than 450,000 students in classrooms across the nation.
• Empower nearly 17,000 alumni across all professional sectors to fuel the deep, long-term change that is required to truly address the root causes of educational inequity.
• Help us continue to recruit our nation’s top recent college graduates and provide them with the excellent, rigorous training and ongoing support that leads to success in the classroom.
• Foster the long-term career and leadership development of corps members and alumni, as they continue their efforts as leaders in the movement to end educational inequity.
• Have a direct impact on your local community and designate your donation to support corps members teaching in any of our 35 placement regions.

You can support Teach For America and our efforts to eliminate educational inequity by:

• Making a secure, online donation using your credit card.
• Donating by phone, mail, stock or electronic/wire transfer. Click here () for detailed instructions.

  Please call the development office at 1-800-832-1230 x 490, Monday – Friday, 10 a.m. – 5 p.m. EST.

  Please mail checks to:
  Teach For America
  Attn: Kate Yarhouse
  315 West 36th St, 7th Floor
  New York, NY 10018

• Sponsoring a teacher (): With a contribution of $5,000 or more to Sponsor A Teacher, Teach For America’s annual leadership giving campaign, you will help offset the annual cost to recruit, select, train, and support a corps member and experience Teach For America’s impact firsthand through classroom visits and ongoing correspondence with a corps member.
• Taking advantage of your employer's matching gift program: Find out if your company has a matching gift policy and will match gifts made to Teach For America.
• Donating your car, truck, van or SUV at Cars4Charities, and designate the entire net proceeds to go to Teach For America.
• Becoming a Corporate Partner: Teach For America's highly regarded corporate partners share our core values and our commitment to educational equity. Partners support our work at various levels of commitment, with the highest level being our National Corporate Partners who contribute a minimum of $1 million annually. For more information on corporate partnerships, please contact Bree Arsenault.

For additional information about how you can support Teach For America, please e-mail donations@teachforamerica.org.

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