Charles Best, founded DonorsChoose.org while teaching in a public high school in New York. Early in his teaching career, Charles realised his colleagues lacked the resources to improve the realities of their classrooms, not the ideas. As a means to address this imbalance, Charles developed and self-funded DonorsChoose.org – a website which allows citizens to directly fund the resource requests of public school teachers. DonorsChoose.org has grown at a phenomenal pace, helping over 6 million public schools children, raising over $100 million for resources and gaining the support of Oprah Winfrey, Stephen Colbert and the First Lady of the United States, Michelle Obama.
