
Charles Best
Founder
DonorsChoose.org
New York, NY USA
“Your hustle will get you ahead, and your humility is what will have people rooting for you to get ahead.”
DonorsChoose.org
New York, NY USA
“Your hustle will get you ahead, and your humility is what will have people rooting for you to get ahead.”
Founder
I lead a site where teachers can request the materials they need for their classroom and find supporters to help them.
I lead DonorsChoose.org, a nonprofit organization that provides a simple way to address educational inequity. At our site, public school teachers create classroom project requests and donors can pick the projects they want to support. I spend my days innovating new ideas and ways to improve our product and also meeting with and securing corporate and foundation partners. I spend a lot of time raising money to help fund our classroom projects.
Here's the first step for high school students
You have to have hustle and humility. Be willing to put in the long hours and make sacrifices to get where you want to be, but in the process, be humble and listen to what others are asking / expecting of you. The hustle will get you ahead and the humility is what will get people to root for you.
"If I don't get funding in three weeks, I'm shutting the website down. "
Teaching takes many forms