News Release

NEWS RELEASE
Contact: Jerry Hall

January 22, 2004
858-274-2121
For Immediate Release

I LOVE SCHOOLS, INC. LAUNCHES UNIQUE MATCHMAKING SERVICE

Web-based Non-Profit Connects Teachers With Donations of Classroom Materials

SAN DIEGO, CA (Jan. 22) – Jerry Hall, president of I Love Schools, Inc., wants to improve the quality of schools, so he founded www.iLoveSchools.com to help teachers reduce or eliminate their out-of pocket expenses. The web site matches potential donors with educators who post requests for teaching supplies. Teacher requests range from inexpensive boxes of markers or Crayons and even Kleenex for students’ winter sniffles to larger gifts of computers or AV equipment.

In the seven months since its birth, iLoveSchools.com has registered several thousand of the 3.5 million teachers across the nation.

A 2003 study by the National Education Association showed that American public school teachers spend an average of $443 of their own money each year to meet their students’ needs. Educators are now eligible for a $250 Federal tax credit, which does not usually cover all of their expenses.

Gifts from donors through the website range from computer software to an alto saxophone with sheet music. Gwendolyn Thomas, a reading facilitator at Baldwin Elementary School in Baldwin, LA, welcomed more than 30 binders from one donor.

“We received the binders within 3-4 days following our contact [with the donor]. The binders have been distributed and put to very good use as a means for organizing classroom instructional materials. The teachers were very surprised, pleased and grateful,” said Thomas.

I Love Schools, Inc., a non-profit organization based in San Diego, CA, was founded in June 2003 by Jerry Hall of eWebLab.com, which specializes in web site design and development.

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