At DonorsChoose, we rave over books adapted to television, we’ve made holiday book exchanges a tradition, and we’ve filled our library with staff picks and the books teachers need most. The secret’s out! We’re book nerds. Most [Read More...]
Our Team’s Award-Winning Operations Approach to our Biggest Day Ever
When a teacher has a project fully funded on DonorsChoose, our team springs into action to fulfill these projects. Unique among crowdfunding platforms, the DonorsChoose team purchases and ships resources directly to classrooms and [Read More...]
One Teacher’s Big Idea: The DonorsChoose.org Story
When DonorsChoose.org founder Charles Best was teaching history in the Bronx in 2000, he would spend his lunches with fellow teachers daydreaming about the projects their students would do, the field trips they would go on, the [Read More...]
Stephen Colbert Explains How DonorsChoose Works
At DonorsChoose, teachers request the tools and experiences their students need most, and donors support the classroom requests that inspire them. Since our founding by a public school teacher in 2000, teachers at 4 in 5 U.S. [Read More...]
A New Way for the DonorsChoose.org Team to Discover Trends
Guest bloggers Pranav Badami, Lorena De La Parra Landa, Elya Pardes, Lex Spirtes, and Michael Zhang are Data Scientists at CKM Advisors, and they recently wrapped up a project helping our team discover new trends in what teachers [Read More...]
Like Crowdfunding, Only Better: How Classrooms Get Resources Through DonorsChoose.org
This has been a record-breaking year for DonorsChoose.org teachers, donors, and partners. With that in mind, I thought it seemed like a great moment to write a little something about how classroom funding works on the site. If [Read More...]
Our Favorite Moments from the 2018 DonorsChoose.org Partner Summit
Each year, we bring together our most generous corporate and foundation partners for Partner Summit: two days of inspiration, learning, and connecting with each other and the DonorsChoose.org mission. For the first time, we [Read More...]