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Pleasant surprise for DonorsChoose.org, schools

Web site listing 2,233 wishes from teachers gets a call asking what it needs to pay for them all. The next day, a check is sent.

Out of the blue, in the middle of a recession, the phone rang.

What would it cost, the caller asked the founder of http://www.DonorsChoose.org, to fund every California teacher’s wish list posted on the Web site?

The founder, Charles Best, thought perhaps the female caller would hang up when he tossed out his best guess: "Something over $1 million," he told her.

Twelve hours later, the woman, Hilda Yao, executive director of the Claire Giannini Fund, sent Best an e-mail.

It said, in short, OK.

Jill Tucker, Chronicle Staff Writer

Full Story: http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2010/09/01/MN2D1F6FF7.DTL&tsp=1

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