Path Insight Teams Up With DonorsChoose.org To Offer Savings On MyCollegeExploration.com Program And Support Teachers And Students In Need

Online, October 17, 2010 (Newswire.com) - Path Insight, a company offering training, assessment, tips and resources to help people create the path to success in school, career and life, announced today that they teamed up with DonorsChoose.org to support teachers and students in need as part of the latest release of the their MyCollegeExploration.com Program.

DonorsChoose.org is the innovative national online education charity that allows public school teachers to seek independent funding for classroom supplies and resources via its website.

Path Insight's MyCollegeExploration.com Program leads college-bound students through the steps of selecting, applying and deciding on the right college and being prepared to succeed in college and life. This program helps students and their parents save money by having a better idea of their ideal future career, major and school.By completing the program,students will realize the power of self-discovery in choosing their college, their major, and creating the path to their ideal future.

Since Path Insight's MyCollegeExploration.com Program helps students, Path Insight wanted every college-bound student to be able to see the value of the program and wanted to be able to promote college readiness for all students.

"We feel education is vitally important for our children and the future of our nation and the world, but unfortunately there are many deserving students out there from kindergarten through 12th grade who are in schools where teachers simply do not have the financial resources to support the class," said Path Insight Director, Patrick O'Donnell, "but DonorsChoose is helping them."

On DonorsChoose.org, teachers from every corner of America post requests to fund a special project at their school and individual "citizen philanthropists" get to choose which project they want to support.

"DonorsChoose.org was the natural choice to allow us to meet our goal of helping prepare students for success in college and life," O'Donnell continued. "Also, we really feel we are in a time when giving back to others is critically important, so this ties into our mission quite well. We were going to make a donation with every purchase of our program, but DonorsChoose provides such a great opportunity for each individual to choose the project they want to support. That way, they can pick a project in their city or one of special meaning to them. Therefore, when a buyer makes a donation, we greatly reduce the fee for our program, so it's like we are still making the donation, but the buyer gets to choose where the funding goes and then they would be the ones getting thank you notes from the classrooms."

When buyers agree to make a donation to DonorsChoose.org via the Path Insight giving page, the initial price of Path Insight's MyCollegeExploration.com Program is reduced. After checkout, buyers are directed to Path Insight's giving page on DonorsChoose.org where they select the classroom project of their choice to help teachers from around the nation fund projects to help their students.
"DonorsChoose.org has helped provide the additional materials, such as college essay prep books, that can help teachers like me create programs that are targeted to the unique needs of our students and get them really excited about learning," said Elizabeth Smith, a teacher at Manhattan Bridges High School. "My goal is to create opportunities for my students to learn in innovative, inspiring ways. This has made all the difference in what our students believe they can achieve."

About DonorsChoose.org
Founded in 2000, DonorsChoose.org is a nonprofit website where public school teachers describe specific educational projects for their students, and donors can choose the projects they want to support. After completing a project, the donor hears back from the classroom they supported in the form of photographs and student thank-you letters.
To date, 134,000 public and charter school teachers have used the site to secure funding for over $55 million in books, art supplies, technology, and other resources that their students need to learn. Through www.donorschoose.org, individuals from all walks of life have helped 3 million students from low-income families.

About Path Insight
Path Insight is a company helping people live the life that they have always imagined by providing tools, assessments and training to create the ideal path to success in school, career and life.
Path Insight's MyCollegeExploration.com Program offers complete training to the college-bound student on the college admission process including selecting a college, applying, deciding, budgeting and preparing to succeed in college and beyond. Through http://MyCollegeExploration.com students and their parents can access the online training program. Information on the affiliate program can be found at http://PathInsight.com/refer/

Path Insight Media Contact:
Patrick O'Donnell
[email protected]
(404) 828-0520