Classes 4 Classes, Inc.

After surviving the attack on Sandy Hook Elementary, teacher Kaitlin Roig-DeBellis was left searching for answers (that would never come). Eventually she decided to focus on questions that could be answered. There were two: How do I make sure this tragedy doesn't define us? How do we get our control back?

Those questions led her to found the non-profit organization Classes 4 Classes. By choosing to focus on the good and positive-evil could never define her students or herself. When gifts poured into their classroom they decided to help someone else and pay it 4ward.

That developed into a concept, of a website and a non-profit where every student K-8 in the US can participate. Classes 4 Classes launched on World News with Diane Sawyer on April 2, 2013. Since then they have worked with over 1,200 students in 10 states and are hoping to be in the other 40 states soon!

Classes4Classes was founded on the belief that when we teach kids empathy and tolerance there is no room for hate.

We provide a social network that connects teachers and students with other classrooms. What better way to enhance teaching and learning a true social curriculum than by connecting?

Mission

Classes 4 Classes, Inc. is a 501(c)(3) organization whose mission is to teach children the power of kindness and compassion through their ability to create positive change for others. The platform provided by our website actively engages students in learning a social curriculum through the exchange of gifts with other K-8 classrooms, which fulfill a need or educational objective. These gifts are crowd-funded by visitors and donors to our site. The gift is given to the teacher and the students in the receiving classroom only once the project goal is reached, and the receiving classroom has started their own project to “pay it 4ward” to another classroom.

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