Charles Best
Founder, DonorsChoose.org
Charles Best founded DonorsChoose.org at Wings Academy, a public high school in the Bronx where he was a social studies teacher for five years. He thought up DonorsChoose.org during a lunch conversation with colleagues, and his students volunteered to help start the organization. To entice his fellow teachers to try out the new website, Charles offered them his mother's famous pear dessert. DonorsChoose.org has been growing since.
If you really believe teachers are pivotal, put your money where your mouth is, says Best.
▸
1 min
—
with
Some teachers even come to DonorsChoose to provide these.
▸
1 min
—
with
If you don’t have a child in the system, why should you care?
▸
2 min
—
with
A wide variety of students.
▸
1 min
—
with
Best thinks it is possible to break a vicious cycle that doesn’t value education.
▸
2 min
—
with
When it comes to education, is bottom-up really the best approach? Does No Child Left Behind work?
▸
4 min
—
with
Connecting classrooms in need to people who want to give.
▸
9 min
—
with
Best hopes DonorsChoose will nudge the public school system to action.
▸
2 min
—
with
It all started in kindergarten, Best says.
▸
1 min
—
with
