With Spring just around the corner, perhaps now is a good time to look around your office for unused supplies and donate them to a local school. With the global economy worsening, many school districts have been forced to reduce their budgets which means less funding for supplies, textbooks and other items.

I Love Schools, Inc. is helping teachers gain access to desperately needed materials. There are over 95,000 US Public Schools in the database. Teachers are able to register with the site and create a wish list that generous donors may then view.

Founded in 1998, Adopt-A-Classroom is another online organization designed to help teachers and schools. They have been an extensive searchable database to locate schools in your local area that have registered with the site. Each teacher may then post specific items they are seeking and donors may then contribute money towards the purchase of those items.