Crayons2Calculators - The Durham Teacher Warehouse Corp.

Attend the Education Celebration!

Our Education Celebration, a fundraising dinner celebrating the one year anniversary of the opening of our teacher warehouse, will be held on Thursday, April 10 at Parizade Restaurant. Please contact sam@crayons2calculators.org if you would like more information. If you would like to donate and/or RSVP, please click the button below and follow the instructions.

UPDATE
The following is the text of the invitation:

The Crayons2Calculators Team Invites You to
Our 1st Annual Education Celebration
in honor of
The One Year Anniversary of the Opening of Our Teacher Warehouse
Thursday, April 10th
7:30 – 10:00 pm
Parizade Restaurant
Erwin Square
2200 West Main Street
Durham, North Carolina
The event will feature a selection of beer and wine and a three course dinner,
an opportunity to hear about C2C’s achievements in the past year and
teacher accounts of C2C’s impact on their student’s educational experiences.
For more information please call (203) 912–0068

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You may RSVP for this event by clicking the “Donate” button above.

Announcing Spring Supply Giveaway Event

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

Durham, N.C. (Mar. 20) - Crayons2Calculators, a non-profit that provides free school supplies to Durham, N.C. teachers, today announced plans to host its seventh giveaway event. The giveaway is a day-long event during which teachers from six select schools are invited to visit the Crayons2Calculators (C2C) warehouse to “shop” for school supplies like binders, crayons and pencil sharpeners on Saturday, April 12. At past giveaway events, teachers have received up to $100 worth of free school supplies each.

Teachers from six public elementary schools are invited to attend the April 12 event. The teachers must come during the window that is assigned to their school. All attendees must show their teacher ID as their pass into the giveaway. The invited elementary schools are listed below with the relevant time window.

Creekside: 10 a.m. to 11:30 a.m.
Hilandale: 10 a.m. to 11:30 a.m.
Hope Valley: 12 noon to 1:30 p.m.
Little River: 12 noon to 1:30 p.m.
Magnum: 2 p.m. to 3 p.m.
Morehead: 2 p.m. to 3 p.m.

The location of the event is the C2C Warehouse in downtown Durham. The address and an online map follow.

Crayons2Calculators
109 East Chapel Hill St.
Durham, NC 27701
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For questions relating to this event, attendees are welcome to contact ashley@crayons2calculators.org or call 704-740-6640.

Crayons2Calculators - The Durham Teacher Warehouse Corp. is a 501(c)3 non-profit initiated by Duke University students and Robertson Scholars from the University of North Carolina in collaboration with Durham community members. The group’s website states, “Our mission is to serve the educational and creative needs of Durham schoolchildren by providing free school supplies to classroom teachers.”

Press contact:
John Mishler
john@crayons2calculators.org
616-634-1835

C2C on TV tonight!

A segment about Crayons2Calculators will air tonight on UNC-TV at 7:30 p.m. Be sure to watch!

The piece will be part of a show called NC Now on the channel UNC-TV, which is broadcast on the PBS channel for cable subscribers.

UPDATE The segment was terrific. Watch it here:

Announcing Biggest Giveaway Yet!

Hundreds of Durham teachers will spend the second Saturday in January at a free “Shopping Day” at the C2C warehouse. C2C is planning its biggest giveaway to date on Saturday, January 12th from 10:00 am to 3:00 pm. Using the recent $10,000 grant from the Carolina Panthers, C2C is inviting all teachers from the eight Durham elementary schools listed below.

All teachers from the following elementary schools are invited to the January 12 giveaway:

Burton
Eastway
Eno Valley
Fayetteville St.
Merrick Moore
R N Harris
CC Spaulding
Y E Smith

Please show your support for Durham classrooms by donating to C2C. Click on the “Donate” tab above to get started. To volunteer your time or with questions, contact durhamteam@crayons2calculators.org.

Carolina Panthers picks C2C for $10,000 grant

We are excited to announce that we have been awarded a $10,000 Carolina Panthers Community Grant through the Foundation of the Carolinas. We will use the funds to host our biggest supply giveaway yet. In January, C2C will open the warehouse for a “Shopping Day,” inviting local teachers from several Durham public schools to replenish their classrooms with much need supplies mid-way through the school year.

Help C2C support Durham’s teachers by making a donation today. Click Donate to get started!

Warehouse featured in local paper

C2C was featured in the Lincoln Times-News (Lincolnton, N.C.) last week, highlighting the work of Lincolnton natives Ashley Arlow and Kennan Eaddy, two key members of the C2C team. An excerpt from the piece:

One teacher responded [after the October 16th giveaway] that the experience made her feel more appreciated than she had in her 11 years of teaching.

“When we get a response like that, it really makes you realize why we’re doing what we’re doing,” Arlow said.

C2C Kicks Off the School Year with a Giveaway!

On Tuesday, October 16, C2C gave $100 shopping sprees to 40 teachers from Easley and Holt Elementary Schools

With the first giveaway of the year under our belts, the C2C student team is ready head full steam ahead into expanding our resources, supplies, and donations into classrooms across Durham. Tuesday was the first of many giveaways to come, and in the mean time we continue to seek new donors, new sponsors, and new volunteers! If you would like to help C2C in any way, whether it be a donation of money or supplies, a helping hand, or even a suggestion for improvement, please contact us at .

C2C welcomes new board members

C2C is proud to welcome six new members to the Board of Directors. At their April 26 meeting, the board elected the following new members:
Margaret Rubiera, a community volunteer in Durham who works with Habitat for Humanity
Sam Abramson, a Duke student and C2C executive team member
Michael Althoff, a UNC student and C2C executive team member
Lynne Dubay, a mentor teacher in the Durham Public Schools
Bill Griffith, the former Vice President of Student Affairs at Duke
Jim Wilkerson, the Director of Duke University Stores

C2C’s accomplishments touted in Duke Chronicle

The C2C team (from left): Nick Anderson, John Mishler, Sam Abramson,
Matt Hameroff, Michael Althoff, Ashley Arlow, and Steve Schewel.
Photo credit: Pete Kiehart/The Chronicle.

The Duke Chronicle ran a great feature on C2C in their April 20 issue.
Click here to read the piece.

Here are some highlights from the article, which was titled Warehouse offers free supplies to teachers:

The warehouse, located on East Chapel Hill Street, is currently being leased to C2C by the city for just $1 a year.

“We’re pleased with what we have right now, but in order for this to be a long-standing program… we’re going to try and get the support of big stores like Target and Wal-Mart,” Mishler said.

For more on how to make C2C’s vision a reality by equipping Durham school kids with the tools they need to learn, please visit our “Donate” webpage or contact Nick at nick@crayons2calculators.org

C2C wins Durham Grit Award

Every so often, the Durham Herald-Sun editorial board gives out the “Durham Grit Award” to someone who has worked hard to make a significant contribution to Durham. Check out today’s lead editorial in the Herald-Sun — this week’s winner of the award is the C2C team!

As any parent knows who’s pushed a loaded shopping cart down crowded aisles the day before school, school supplies can get expensive. It’s also true for teachers, who often spend their own hard-earned money to purchase the crayons and folders their students need. Some estimate that teachers spend an average of $443 a year of their own money on school supplies.

These college students saw a need and figured out a way to meet it. Because of their fine effort, students will have supplies and teachers will get to keep more of their paychecks. To these students, surely among America’s best and brightest, we present this week’s Durham Grit Award.