Equity & Impact Researcher

DonorsChoose makes it easy for anyone to help a teacher in need, moving us closer to a nation where students in every community have the tools and experiences they need for a great education.

Since 2000, more than 5 million people and partners have contributed $1 billion to support 2 million teacher requests for classroom resources and experiences. Projects range from art supplies to build the set for a school musical, to books and puzzles that affirm students’ identities, to bird seed for an at-home science project. We proudly serve all US public schools, public charter schools, and Head Start centers, and we combat systemic inequity by driving a majority of donations to schools that have been historically underfunded due to economic and racial inequity.

DonorsChoose has been recognized as a best place to work by GOOD Magazine and the Nonprofit Times, while Fast Company named DonorsChoose one of the 50 Most Innovative Companies in the World—the first time a charity has made this list. Our dedicated team works from across the United States to bring classroom dreams to life.

About the Equity & Impact Team

The Equity & Impact team is the hub of innovation and education equity expertise within DonorsChoose with a topline goal of making a measurably bigger impact on the outcomes of students. As the organization enters a new chapter, living into its identity as an education equity organization, the E&I team charts the course for how we define equity impact, how we go about achieving it, how we drive alignment across teams to advance it, and how we measure it. This team also builds new programmatic initiatives and strategic partnerships to advance the work, while leveraging organizational knowledge in support of achieving our mission. 

While DonorsChoose was created more than 20 years ago to address inequity in access to education, we’re newly committed to combating racial inequity in education; and we’re just at the tip of the iceberg in exploring additional dimensions of equity and how we make an impact that advances the field. We take a nuanced approach to these efforts, layering an equity lens across our strategy for every external org stakeholder (donors, teachers, partners, vendors, etc.) in order to achieve our mission. 

In each case, our work points back to making a bigger equity impact that advances outcomes for students

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