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I'm not tech savvy at all.
I do not live off canned soup.
We believe in the wisdom of the front lines.
We love that our platform allows people to give.
Our ideological dilemmas won't ever be solved by machines.
Our only political stance is this: listen to these teachers.
I've been a fan of bass fishing for as long as I can remember.
At DonorsChoose.org, we believe that teachers are unsung heroes.
We reflect on our successes and failures at monthly staff meetings.
Learning is a critical part of our mission and organizational culture.
People on the front lines have the best ideas for how to improve things.
Our mission is to help students in need and to democratize philanthropy.
We've established a free marketplace of teacher ideas and donor interests.
I was a social studies teacher at a high school in the Bronx for five years.
America's best teachers are always looking for new ways to bring learning to life.
In the sixth grade, I planned to start my own business making custom fishing lures.
We are so humbled and grateful to Google for their devotion to our teachers and students.
To get DonorsChoose.org to scale, we first need to increase the viral appeal of our website.
We think we can contribute something toward the improvement of public education in our country.
Every day, teachers across the country excite their students with new opportunities and experiences.
Arianna Huffington is one of the greatest champions of this idea - that anyone can make a difference.
We want to use our site to galvanize people to give but also to take important steps toward real change.
Teachers know how to improve education, but they are a voice that is consistently overlooked or ignored.
We will employ almost every strategy and hustle in any possible way to recruit top engineers to our team.
A really large number of teachers contact us offline testifying how valuable iPads are for their students.
Our brains are designed to solve some of our most complex problems when we're distracted by routine habits.
I think philanthropy is so much more in keeping with spirit of shouting someone out than a material reward.
We evaluate all business decisions based on how we can best serve public school teachers and their students.
We think there's nothing like sunlight to mobilize and energize citizens to demand change of their elected officials.
You have to wade through tons of 'no's' to get one 'yes,' and you can't let it go to your head when you get that yes.
I had really good relationship with my students; it definitely took me a few months before I had my students' respect.
Students can't dream big when classrooms lack books, microscopes, and robotics kits - or even paper, pencils, and paste.
It just felt wrong that the kids I was teaching didn't have the same access to materials that I did when I was a student.
Within a single school, teachers often encounter differences in poverty levels, parent involvement, and student readiness.
Our partnership with Dick's Sports Matter program aligns perfectly with our mission to address inequity in schools nationwide.
One question we'll ask is, 'Who are you grateful for,' and a surprising number of people can't name anyone beyond their mother.
Our name is not great. It doesn't evoke anything about school or teachers. It doesn't roll off the tongue or stick in your head.
Well, just as in the quality of public schools, there is massive disparity and the compensation given to the public school teachers.
No matter the circumstances, teachers show up each day ready to give their students every opportunity possible, and they never give up.
We all remember special days at school, whether it was going on a field trip, doing a science experiment, or performing in a school play.
We think the ability to rattle off people you are grateful to and thankful to is often sort of a proxy for openness to learning from others.
I think it's the strength of the idea that's made Donors Choose work, not me. I mean, I'm determined, and I work hard, but so does everyone else.
Donors are sick of writing that $200 check to the Red Cross and not knowing whether it goes for the executive director's salary or the office rent.
We've long believed teachers know best what their students need to succeed, and that includes the creation of healthy, supportive school communities.
I'd love DonorsChoose.org to become a place where teachers can post innovative, out-of-the-box projects that they can't get funding for traditionally.
People not only want to support public schools, but people warm to this idea of being a philanthropist, even if they might have only have $5 to spare.
It's hard to enlist the support of people you don't know, but it's critical to growing your career, finding new customers, and building out your team.
I think there are really are some public schools, incredibly successful public schools, that are inculcating a real educational ethic in their students.
Students who learn to collaborate and negotiate - on Capitol Hill, in the board room, in everyday life - will outperform peers who have higher test scores.
I saw first-hand that all schools are not created equal, and the students shouldn't have to go without all of the materials that they need for a great education.