Crowdfunding platforms direct millions of dollars annually to schools across the country, but the scholarly and policy communities have a limited understanding of their operations. In this paper we leverage data from DonorsChoose and the Common Core of Data to examine the characteristics of schools whose teachers do and do not submit projects to DonorsChoose, the subject areas and resource requests of these projects, and the characteristics of projects that achieve full funding. We find that teachers in schools serving disadvantaged student populations in the lowest-spending states are most likely to post projects on DonorsChoose. Despite accounting for a majority of submitted projects, math and reading projects are less likely to reach full funding than those in other subject areas.

众筹平台每年都会向全国各地的学校提供​​数百万美元的资金，但是学术界和政策界对他们的运作了解有限。在本文中，我们利用DonorsChoose和“数据的公共核心”中的数据来检查那些向DonorsChoose提交和不提交项目的学校的特点，这些项目的主题领域和资源要求以及获得全部资金的项目的特点。 。我们发现，在支出最低的州为弱势学生群体服务的学校中，教师最有可能在DonorsChoose上发布项目。尽管占提交项目的大多数，但与其他学科领域相比，数学和阅读项目获得全部资金的可能性较小。