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Project Data

All classroom projects that have been posted to the site, including lots of school info such as its NCES ID (government-issued), lat/long, and city/state/zip. Each row in the table is a classroom project.

Data file: ~40MB zip, ~135MB CSV, ~300K records


IDs

_projectid: identifies a unique project
_teacher_acctid: identifies the teacher who created the project
_schoolid: identifies the school that this project is for
school_ncesid: the NCES ID of the school as used by http://nces.ed.gov/

School Location

These fields mostly correspond to the options available on our search page under the School section of "More Criteria."  The options that are not available on the search page are latitude/longitude, zip, and metro type.

school_latitude
school_longitude
school_city
school_state
school_zip: 5 Digit Zip
school_metro: Urban, Suburban, or Rural
school_district
school_county

School Types

These fields correspond to the options available on our search page under the School section of "More Criteria."  The are flagged with 1 if the project is associated with the type of school specified, and a 0 if not.  For example, a New Leaders New Schools affiliated school would have a 1 in the nlns field.

school_charter
school_magnet
school_year_round
school_nlns
school_kipp
school_charter_ready_promise

Teacher Attributes

teacher_prefix: Dr., Mr., Mr. & Mrs., Mrs., Ms.
teacher_teach_for_america
teacher_
ny_teaching_fellow

Project Categories

These correspond the the details available on the bottom of each project page.  Each project has a primary focus with a subject and associated area, but may also have a secondary focus.  For example, a project requesting books about the environment may have a primary subject of "Environmental Science" under the area "Math & Science", with a secondary subject of "Literacy" under the area "Literacy & Language."  

primary_focus_subject
primary_focus_area
secondary_focus_subject
secondary_focus_area
resource_usage: essential or enrichment
resource_type: Books, Technology, Supplies, Trips, Visitors, Other
poverty_level: high, low, minimal, unknown
grade_level:     Grades PreK-2, Grades 3-5, Grades 6-8, Grades 9-12

Project Pricing and Impact

These fields are available under Project Details on a project page, breaking down the cost of a project into its parts.

vendor_shipping_charges
sales_tax
payment_processing_charges
fulfillment_labor_materials
total_price_excluding_opt_donation
total_price_including_opt_donation
students_reached
used_by_future_students

Project Donations

These fields provide information about the donations made to a particular project.

total_donations: Total donation amount
num_donors: Number of unique donors giving to this project
eligible_double_your_impact_match: True if the project was ever eligible for a Double Your Impact match offer
eligible_almost_home_match: True if the project was ever eligible for an Almost Home match offer

Project Status

These fields provide status information and dates for when a project reached their milestones. Dates will be null if the project did not reach that particular milestone.  For example, if a project was posted but not completed, the date_completed would be null while the date_posted would have a date.

funding_status refers to the status of this project as of the date the dataset was created.  Reallocated projects are projects that received partial funding but the project never completed, so the donations were moved towards another project.  Completed projects refer to projects that received full funding.  Expired projects are ones that expired before donations were made.  Live projects are projects that were still open for donations on the day the dataset was created.

funding_status: Completed, Expired, Live, or Reallocated
date_posted: Date a project was approved by staff to be listed on the site
date_completed: Date a project become fully funded
date_thank_you_packet_mailed: Date that the project went through the final stage of sending out a thank you package to donors
date_expiration: Date the project was set to expire and be delisted from the site


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