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Charles Best (businessman)
American philanthropist and entrepreneur
Charles Best is an American philanthropist and entrepreneur.
He is the founder and CEO of DonorsChoose.org, a crowdfunding platform for K-12 teachers serving in US schools, and the founder of Irregardless, a crowd-sourced writing style guide. In 2023 he became the CEO of Lakeshore Learning, a chain of educational supply stores.[1]
Education
Best attended high school at St.
Paul's School, a boarding school in New Hampshire.[2] Best graduated Phi Beta Kappa from Yale College in 1998.
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He also holds a certificate in fundraising management from the Harvard Kennedy School.[3]
Career
Two years after his college graduation, Best launched DonorsChoose.org[4] while serving as a high school history teacher in the Bronx.
Best founded the organization after seeing first-hand the limited resources and opportunities available in his school. The site allows teachers to post proj