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Classroom Wishlist Inc. 4653 Lage Dr San Jose, CA 95130

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Executive:	Craig Harmer
Contact:	Mr. Craig Harmer , Executive Director
Telephone:	(408) 439-8246
Fax:
E-mail:	craig@classroomwishlist.org
Web Site:	http://www.classroomwishlist.org

Who We Are We facilitate funding of classroom needs; We allow teachers to build wishlists from a catalog and solicit donations. We then purchase and deliver the items. Program / Activities Fund Raising and/or Fund Distribution Elementary, Secondary Ed Parent Teacher Group How to Help This organization is seeking funds from contributions and grants. These funds will be used for unrestricted operating expenses, special projects and endowments. Location(s) Served National

BASIC INFORMATION
EIN:	20-1525073
Fiscal Year:	2006
Assets:	$1,512
Income:	$37,982
Ruling Year:	2004
Year Founded:	2004
No. of Board Members:	7
No. of Full-time Employees:	1-5
No. of Part-time Employees:	0
No. of Volunteers:	11-20
Classroom Wishlist Inc. makes its audited financial statements available to the public upon request.

Mission
Our mission is to match the giving capacity of individuals and others in the private sector to the financial and material needs of public schools and other deserving entities. We will accomplish this by providing a world class catalog of supplies to teachers and administrators of public schools, provide the means by which they can select the items they need for their classrooms, provide an easy to navigate path for parents and concerned individuals to find those requirements, provide the secure eCommerce capabilities to allow the tax deductible funding and purchase of items to fill those requirements, and ensure delivery of those items directly to the teacher, classroom or school. Our goal is to build an infrastructure where the private sector can directly fund true needs in the classroom.

Programs
We provide the following in fulfillment of our mission:
An on-line catalog populated with classroom supplies
A user interface for teachers, administrators and advisors to build their Wishlists
A user interface for parents to find their child?s School, Teacher and Classroom and identify the items from that Wishlist they would like to donate toward. The parent sees exactly what the teacher has determined they need, decides if the offered price is competitive, and chooses the amount they want to spend or the product they want to buy. We deliver that item to the classroom.
A secure transaction capability
Order fulfillment delivery to the teacher

Additional Comments
The situation in today?s classrooms is disheartening at best. Teachers work in under-funded schools with inadequate resources. They attempt to provide our children with the educational foundation required for our children to carry on as the world?s scientific and industrial leaders of tomorrow. In support of this objective, they often use their personal monies to buy simple items such as paper, pencils, and folders that most of us assume are in abundant supply, but that in reality are precious commodities that are too often beyond the reach of current funding. Those of us with children in the public school system are all too familiar with requests from teachers for donations to ensure that individual classroom needs are met.

The problem in meeting these needs, however, is that school district policies or state and federal laws often prevent financial donations from being directed to specific classrooms or schools. What is more, the resources available to a caring individual or organization often cannot easily be directly translated into the supplies needed by the school or classroom, or they are simply unaware of the actual needs that exist and how they can contribute. Busy parents with financial means may be willing to donate, but are unaware of the specific needs of individual classrooms.

In August of 2004, Classroom Wishlist was created as a non-profit organization providing individuals, corporations and other organizations in the private sector a vehicle to identify and fill material needs of schools and other deserving entities.



Goals and Results

Accomplishments for Fiscal Year Ending 08/31/2005

1. We launched our web site
2. We have doubled books in the library of a high school in Oakland
3. We have distributed science kits to schools throughout northern california

1. Expand our service nationwide
2. Donate $1,000,000 worth of supplies to title 1 schools.
3. Deliver products in every state in the nation

Chief Executive Profile
Craig Harmer is an experienced manager of growing and super-growth companies. His last company was featured in the Silicon Valley Business Journal as the fastest growing privately held company in San Jose in 1997. He has a Masters in Management which encompasses both business and not-for-profit management. He has been active in the youth programs of his church for over 20 years. Most importantly he is a parent, teacher and brother of several teachers. He has a passion regarding this unmet need.

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