Pacific Beach resident Jerry Hall launched iloveschools.com nationwide in 2003 to connect teachers and schools with donors and volunteers through a simple, online interface that matches teachers’ wishes with donors’ capabilities. The Web site allows, say, a Pacific Beach teacher to post a wish list for classroom supplies for donors to scan and, hopefully, choose to fund. Teachers can also ask for volunteer help through the Web site. On the giving side, donors can find a specific school and scan the teacher’s list of needs to see if they can provide the items. Or, a donor can post on the donation board whatever he has to offer: toner for the printer, literature books, computers. Business and volunteers can also post their services online for school districts to take advantage of. For example, a healing arts school or restaurant can post its willingness to host a field trip for school children.  Hall said the site gives teachers an opportunity to articulate their needs without begging parents for supplies, fundraising on their own or even pulling money out of their own pockets. “I definitely want to encourage far more participation between parents and schools, but when a parent comes to the schools, the teacher shouldn’t have her hand out and say, ‘I need $20,’” Hall said. “To me, it’s separating the two.”  Hall ran his own Web site design business, eweblab, for nine years but said he gradually grew more interested in supporting education than churning a profit. Hall soon realized that iloveschools.com could not support itself, however, so he launched an online, for-profit business to sell school supplies at schoolsupplydrive.com. Hall uses his for-profit company to help his non-profit organization. Hall said he donates 20 percent of the gross profit from the school supply company to iloveschools.com. Donors at iloveschools.com mostly give through schoolsupplydrive.com since the company delivers for free, plus proceeds from that Web site head back to the schools, Hall said. Hall said his eventual goal is to make iloveschools.com self-sustaining from the profits from schoolsupplydrive.com so it doesn’t have to rely on the generosity of donors to support schools. Hall runs both businesses out of his home in Pacific Beach, although he plans to move into an office in Old Town.