Charles Best  
Founder, Donors Choose

Charles Best taught social studies for five years at an alternative public high school in the Bronx. During his first year of teaching, he founded DonorsChoose.org, a website featured as “the future of philanthropy” by The New York Times and as “a revolutionary charity” by Oprah Winfrey.

Charles graduated from St. Paul’s School with the scholar-athlete award in 1994, and graduated Phi Beta Kappa from Yale College in 1998. Before teaching and starting DonorsChoose, he spent a year studying wood sculpture at the School of Fine Arts in Guadalajara, Mexico; helping to train Tzotzil Indians as teachers in Chiapas, Mexico and teaching Spanish literacy at a farm/orphanage in the Nicaraguan highlands.

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