Charles Best
American philanthropist and entrepreneur
Charles Best is an American philanthropist and entrepreneur. He is the founder and CEO of DonorsChoose.org, a crowdfunding platform for K-12 teachers serving in US schools, and the founder of Irregardless, a crowd-sourced writing style guide.2
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About
In 2023 he became the CEO of Lakeshore Learning, a chain of educational supply stores.
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Companies
- DonorsChooseFounder5
Early life and education
Best attended high school at St. Paul's School, a boarding school in New Hampshire. Best graduated Phi Beta Kappa from Yale College in 1998. He also holds a certificate in fundraising management from the Harvard Kennedy School.
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Career
- Date not recordedFounded DonorsChoose4
Two years after his college graduation, Best launched DonorsChoose.org while serving as a high school history teacher in the Bronx. Best founded the organization after seeing first-hand the limited resources and opportunities available in his school. The site allows teachers to post project requests for classroom supplies, resources, field trips and class visitors. Once donors fully fund a project, DonorsChoose.org fulfills the project request by purchasing the materials and shipping them to the classroom.
By 2014, more than half of all US public schools had at least one teacher create a project request on DonorsChoose.org, and more than a million people gave over $200 million to classroom projects reaching 10 million students.
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- 1WikidataCharles Best on Wikidata
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- 5WikidataDonorsChoose, Founder