P.S. 84 Steinway School
22-45 41ST ST ASTORIA, NY 11105 718-278-1915
Our Community:
Let's get all of our parents, alumni, neighbors and friends to show their support of P.S. 84 Steinway School!
See all five easy ways to help our students:
Coming Soon!
We will soon offer fundraising scrip gift cards from hundreds of national merchants. You can buy them here at face value. A percentage of your purchase price will be credited to our school’s ClassWish account to provide resources for students. You will also be able to buy scrip gift cards to support any individual teacher or school activity. Want notice when we launch? Email cards [AT] ClassWish [DOT] org
Help Students and Teachers. Simply Invite Educators to ClassWish.org
Here is an Easy Way to Help Students and Teachers
Students and teachers need more resources. You can help them when you donate
through ClassWish.org, and you can further help them when you invite educators at
P.S. 84 Steinway School and other schools to create wish lists here.
Please Invite Them All
Invite educators (teachers, student-teachers, administrators, librarians, coaches, school
nurses, guidance counselors, etc.), as well as PTA, PTO, and booster club leaders.
Invite these people from your school, from other schools in your community, or from
any public, private, or parochial K-12 school in the United States.
Sending Invitations is Quick and Easy
There is sample text you can use for:
- emails to educators and for PTA/PTO/booster club leaders
- Facebook posts
- Tweets
You can also display a banner on your website or blog. See the large selection here.
Be Sure to Follow Up
People typically need to see a message several times before they act on it, so be sure
to check regularly if the educators you invite have created a wish list. If not, just send
them a follow-up invitation. Be sure to re-post invitations regularly via Facebook,
Twitter, etc., too.
Inviting FIRST Robotics Teams
If you know FIRST Robotics teams, please let them know ClassWish has special tools
just for them. See the sample text for email invitations, Facebook, and twitter, which you can find here.
ClassWish Eligibility Requirements
ClassWish invites leaders of FIRST Robotics teams and also invites teachers, student teachers, substitute teachers, part-time after school teachers, staff developers, librarians, guidance counselors, school nurses, coaches, principals, administrators, other school employees directly serving students in an educational capacity, and officers acting on behalf of school Parent Teacher Association units recognized by the National Parent Teacher Association and on behalf of other parent teacher organizations (collectively, “Educators”) in K-12, public, magnet and charter schools, and private and parochial that are exempt from federal income tax under Section 501(c)(3) of the Internal Revenue Code, and that are in the 50 states or the District of Columbia (collectively, “Allowed Schools”) to create wish lists (“Wish Lists”) indicating the supplies and equipment they need for their students to excel and to submit requests (“Requests”) for ClassWish to provide particular items funded by contributions to such Wish Lists.
Funded Requests cannot be transferred to another Educator.
In order to register on ClassWish.org and create Wish Lists and Requests, you must attest to the following:
- I confirm that I am a leader of a FIRST Robotics team or am an Educator in an Allowed School, as those terms are defined above;
- The activities for which I intend to use any items received through ClassWish are legal and fall within the standards of my state and/or local board or department of education, and the policies of my school or, in the case of FIRST Robotics team leaders, fall within the standards of FIRST Robotics;
- All information I provide to ClassWish is accurate, and I will promptly update the information to keep it accurate;
- Any Requests I submit and any funding or items I receive are solely for use in my classroom and/or school, or in the case of FIRST Robotics team leaders are solely for use by my FIRST team, and any items I request through ClassWish will not be for my or anyone else’s personal use;
- I agree that any items provided to me by ClassWish shall become and remain the property of (i) the school to which ClassWish has them delivered, and I will not take such items to another school, or (ii) in the case of a FIRST Robotics team such items provided to me by ClassWish or purchased with funds provided to me by ClassWish shall become and remain the property of the FIRST Robotics team or, if such is dissolved, shall become the property of FIRST Robotics.
- I commit to including in my Wish Lists and Requests only items that will benefit my students’ education, including extracurricular activities, and to use any items that I receive from ClassWish only for such purposes.
- I agree that in the event that ClassWish determines that any items I received through ClassWish are not being used in accordance with these Eligibility Requirements, I will return such items to ClassWish at my expense. In the case of FIRST teams, ClassWish may rely on the determination of FIRST Robotics in this regard.
