Competitive Fundraising? How Stephen Colbert Is Using DonorsChoose.org

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Charles Best, founder and CEO of DonorsChoose.org, explains how Stephen Colbert has used the site to raise money for classrooms in need.

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DonorsChoose.org CEO Charles Best delivers the keynote at the Future of Jewish Nonprofit Summit.

The Future of Jewish Nonprofit Summit pulls together the best speakers, ideas and companies together for one day in order to inspire movement, facilitate change and spark creativity.

This one day summit is a polar opposite to your typical overcrowded, loud and ineffective conference. We keep it to a closed circle of in-the-know attendees and provide them with a casual, content-rich and personal environment. Our objective is to cultivate substantive and concrete dialogue between a select group of decision makers and help make things happen.

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.