We’re facing a dangerous supply shortage across the globe. What’s running low, you ask? Two things; mustaches and charitable donations.
Ok, so maybe mustaches are an arguable “commodity” that many would like to see disappear completely. But few would dispute that charitable donations, particularly to specific school projects through DonorsChoose.org, are always too scarce.
Luckily a few [...]

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The DonorsChoose.org Social Media Challenge is in its final week and it’s been a huge success thus far. All together, over 300k has been raised from nearly 4,000 donors. Best of all, due to DonorsChoose.org’s model - where donors give directly to individual projects posted by teachers - we know that 94,609 students have been [...]

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Today marks the start of DonorsChoose.org’s 2nd annual Social Media Challenge - a contest that runs through the month of October - and quite frankly … I want us to win. Ok, so it’s unlikely that we’ll beat massive competitors like Mashable or Craigslist founder Craig Newmark. But, I am certain that Supply Excellence readers [...]

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This week in San Francisco I spoke with Jonathan Evans, Director of Vendor Relations at DonorsChoose.org, about their organization’s use of spend management tools and principals to move from a manual, paper process to a scalable, efficient model. To the “customers” (innovative teachers, their students, and the donors who select which projects to support), this [...]

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DonorsChoose.org founder Charles Best didn’t set out to create a revolutionary philanthropic organization. He was a social studies teacher in New York who lamented the fact that teachers and their students often lacked the resources they needed. But then he decided to do something about it.
In his keynote this morning, Charles walked through the history [...]

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