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darkknight111 ago

https://mobile.twitter.com/TwoBootsHQ

I think I found their twitter account.

carmencita ago

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DonorsChoose

In 2003, the Oprah Winfrey Show featured Charles Best in a segment on Innovative Teachers, which aired on June 20.[10] Traffic generated from the show crashed the site, but viewers donated $250,000 to classroom projects. The sustained exposure from the Oprah Winfrey Show allowed DonorsChoose.org to expand from the New York City region to key metropolitan areas across the country.

DonorsChoose.org enables teachers to request materials and resources for their classrooms and makes these project requests available to individual donors through its website. Donors can give $1 or more to projects that interest them, which are searchable by school name, teacher name, location, school subject, material, and keywords. DonorsChoose.org then purchases necessary supplies and ships them directly to the schools. Every project contains a line-item budget and a description of the project. All donors receive photographs of the project taking place in the classroom and a letter from the teacher. Donors who contribute $50 or more to a project also receive hand-written thank-you notes from students.[15] Stephen Colbert has promoted DonorsChoose and has a position on the board.[16]

Winfrey and Colbert? This needs looking into. He is on their board.

It was mentioned in an interview with Craig Newmark on the October 18, 2007, episode of the Colbert Report,[21] and again on March 19, 2008, September 27, 2011,[22] and December 13, 2012, as a recipient of host Stephen Colbert's Super PAC Americans for a Better Tomorrow, Tomorrow.[23]

Google's partnership with the organization led to criticism from the UK tech publication The Register in 2016. According to the publication, the partnership created incentives in the DonorsChoose platform to favor expensive items over basic goods. It was claimed that this helped Google simultaneously have good publicity, sell their own product (Chromebook) and have tax benefits from charity activities.[28]

Fortune magazine named Best to its "40 under 40 hottest rising stars in business" for three consecutive years. In November 2013, he received the John F. Kennedy New Frontier Award, an honor for young Americans who are changing their communities and country through their commitment to public service. (Past recipients include Wendy Kopp and Cory Booker.)[4] In 2014, Best received the S. Roger Horchow for Greatest Public Service by a Private Citizen as part of the Jefferson Awards.

Board of Dir. https://www.donorschoose.org/about/meet_the_team.html Some listed were: Jonathan Alter of MSMBC Steven Colbert Jeff Wiener of Linkedin and Disiree Rogers formerly with BO

carmencita ago

What is this that is on their Twitter?

https://mobile.twitter.com/scottspizzatour/status/934436916233203712 Pizza Making Class for Kindergarten? and donorchoose.org? Hmm. mighty sketchy imo. I am looking this donor place up