This holiday season, Yahoo! is offering a simple, no-cost way for anyone to help provide funding for teachers and classrooms: Just make Yahoo! your homepage.

Among Yahoo’s many users are a vast community of public school teachers, parents, students, and education advocates. Yahoo! is dedicated to supporting education and helping both students and teachers thrive. We’re continually sharing and hearing stories about what our community does to help our classrooms gain much needed funding – bake sales, magazine subscription sales, collecting empty cans, gift wrap and more. So today we launched Yahoo! Homepages for Homerooms, a program that gives everyone a new way to help teachers and classrooms get funding from now through Dec. 23, 2010.

Through Yahoo! Homepages for Homerooms, public school teachers are eligible to receive funding from Yahoo! if they have a project posted on DonorsChoose.org, a renowned education nonprofit through which public school teachers can request funds for needed classroom items – books, art supplies, a projector, you name it!. Yahoo! will provide full project funding (up to $600 per project) to the projects that receive the most Yahoo.com homepages. We’ll fund up to $350,000 by the end of the year.

If you’re a teacher and do not currently have a project on DonorsChoose.org, visit our Teachers page to find out more. If you already have a project on DonorsChoose.org, you’re automatically eligible to participate in Homepages for Homerooms, so start spreading the word to your community to make Yahoo! their homepage in support of your project.

To help support a public school project get funding:

1) Visit yahoo.homepagesforhomerooms.com/projects and find a project you’d like to support.

2) Click “Support this project” and follow the easy steps to make Yahoo! your homepage. Each person may participate once.

3) Spread the word to teachers, colleagues, and friends to help your favorite project get funding — the more homepages are generated, the more classroom projects we’ll fund