Charles best biography donors choose thank

American philanthropist and entrepreneur

Charles Best is an American philanthropist and entrepreneur.

Donorschoose careers

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. 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