Teachers can raise funds for their classroom through Scholastic with a ClassroomsCount™ campaign. Here’s how one inspiring teacher used her campaign to create a mobile classroom library. Start your own campaign to get books, magazines, and more trusted products in kids’ hands!
Chrissy Casey and three other teachers had been dreaming of starting a Book-Mobile. Filled with kids’ favorite reads, it would drive through local neighborhoods and give kids the chance to check out books. Imagine a library on wheels!
However, for more than five years, it never happened—until Chrissy saw the opportunity to create a Scholastic ClassroomsCount™ campaign. “I called up my friend and said, ‘Look, this is what Scholastic is doing! I think it’s meant to be,’” she says.
Chrissy has been teaching in her district since 1999. When she posted her campaign on social media (doing so makes it 4 times more likely that your campaign will receive funds), she had an outpouring of support from her community. Parents of her former students shared the campaign with their networks, and soon, even complete strangers were donating.
Within just a couple of weeks, Chrissy had exceeded her goal of $1,000. The Book-Mobile was about to become a reality.
“Originally, we were going to do the Book-Mobile out of my car, and my husband said, ‘There is no way all those books are going to fit in your car,’” says Chrissy. “So we got a trailer, he built the shelves, and the boxes of books started to roll in.”
