Making a difference, one classroom at a time – DonorsChoose.org

Charles Best was just 23, a new teacher in the Bronx, struggling along with fellow teachers to pay for copy paper and other supplies out of their own pockets, when he got a bright idea.

He’d create a website where teachers could let the public know what their classrooms need. Strangers then could donate to the projects they like best.

"I figured there must be people who’d like to help teachers like us," Best said in a phone interview.

Thanks to the power of an idea, the kindness of strangers, the Internet and a little help from Oprah Winfrey, his http://www.DonorsChoose.org snowballed and grew in 13 years into a nationwide philanthropy.

GAIL SCHONTZLER, Chronicle Staff Writer

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Charles Best, Founder Of DonorsChoose.org, 3/5, Montana State University, Bozeman http://www.matr.net/events.phtml?showdetail=4486