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This Week in Venture Capital #55 with Charles Best of DonorsChoose.org

Wednesdays at 2pm (PST)

This week Mark speaks with the founder of a great new up and coming company, DonorsChoose.org. Founded just a few years ago, the company has been featured by the likes of Oprah, Steven Colbert, and many other multimedia platforms. Mark discussed the company and their mission with founder Charles Best. For more information, visit http://www.donorschoose.org/.

  • Brandon

    Good episode but I have to say that intro is seriously awkward…you might consider changing it ;).

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Debby-Guardino/595486873 Debby Guardino

    Hi Mark, I see from the interview that you are passionate about IT in schools. I am a DonorsChoose.org teacher with 56 funded projects. I have spent every free moment since May 22 helping 260  teachers in Joplin, MO rebuild their classrooms after an EF5 tornado destroyed their schools and took every teaching resource they owned. Prior to the tornado their school system had an awesome technology center that was totally destroyed. I have raised $400,000 in resources for teachers and traveled to Joplin to train teachers to write donorschoose.org/joplin projects. There has been over 200 teacher projects posted since my training there. I have been trying to have someone like the Clinton Global Initiative who wants to bring 1,000 IT jobs into Joplin or the Gates Foundation get involved. If you have any suggestions…especially for the Franklin Technology Center I would love to talk.  Thank you for supporting DonorsChoose.og – it has totally changed my life and my students lives.