Competitive Fundraising? How Stephen Colbert Is Using DonorsChoose.org
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Charles Best, founder and CEO of DonorsChoose.org, explains how Stephen Colbert has used the site to raise money for classrooms in need.
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DonorsChoose.org CEO Charles Best delivers the keynote at the Future of Jewish Nonprofit Summit.
The Future of Jewish Nonprofit Summit pulls together the best speakers, ideas and companies together for one day in order to inspire movement, facilitate change and spark creativity.
This one day summit is a polar opposite to your typical overcrowded, loud and ineffective conference. We keep it to a closed circle of in-the-know attendees and provide them with a casual, content-rich and personal environment. Our objective is to cultivate substantive and concrete dialogue between a select group of decision makers and help make things happen.
Charles Best founded DonorsChoose.org at Wings Academy, a public high school in the Bronx where he was a social studies teacher for five years. He thought up DonorsChoose.org during a lunch conversation with colleagues, and his students volunteered to help start the organization. To entice his fellow teachers to try out the new website, Charles offered them his mother’s famous pear dessert. DonorsChoose.org has been growing since.
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Richmond Hill High School’s World Action Council held their 5th Annual Hope and Soap Car Wash for Free the Children on August 29th, 2010. We are raising funds for a clean water project in Sierra Leone. 
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After attending a mission trip to Burrell Boom, Belize to work on the buildings at the Burrell Boom Methodist School, my daughter noticed the lack of supplies available for both the teachers and the students. She and I created this video to show to our congregation, giving them an idea of the work our church’s youth group had accomplished, showing them the children who came daily to help and worship with us, and relating to them some idea of the needs of this small school. Her efforts helped raise over $9,000 for this school; money for books, paper, writing utensils, arts and crafts supplies, curriculum for teachers, shoes and athletic equipment for the school’s athletic teams, utility bills, and most importantly, tuition money for those children who could not otherwise afford to attend. The effort to help support this school is ongoing. If you would like to help, please correspond with Rev. Charles Bagley, C/O Moody Memorial First United Methodist Church, 2803 Avenue U, Galveston, Texas 77551-5914, or charles@moody.org
Depending on the size of a congregation, there are a number of unique ways to raise funds. Learn about putting on a carnival with inflatable games, food vendors and other entertainment with help from an associate pastor in this free video on fundraisers.