$1.4 million donor funds California teachers' wish list

[Newsjock]

Source: San Francisco Chronicle

Out of the blue, in the middle of a recession, the phone rang.

What would it cost, the caller asked the founder of DonorsChoose.org, to fund every California teacher's wish list posted on the Web site?

The founder, Charles Best, thought perhaps the female caller would hang up when he tossed out his best guess: "Something over $1 million," he told her.

Twelve hours later, the woman, Hilda Yao, executive director of the Claire Giannini Fund, sent Best an e-mail.

It said, in short, OK.

A day later, Yao mailed a check of more than $1.3 million to cover the entire California wish list, 2,233 projects in all, with an extra $100,000 tossed in to help pay for other teacher needs across the country.

Read more: http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2010/09/01/MN2D1F6FF7.DTL&tsp=1

[madfloridian]

1. More about Donors Choose...

http://www.accountabletalk.com/2010/07/donorschoose-stabs-teachers-in-back.html

http://nyceducator.com/2010/07/donors-choose-let-bill-gates-and-wal.html

http://gothamschools.org/2010/08/06/opposition-to-waiting-for-superman-slow-in-gaining-steam/

[alstephenson]

2. What a wonderful gesture.

[ladjf]

3. There are many very wealthy Americans. It would help if many

of them were to follow Mrs. Yao's example. nt

[Pirate Smile]

4. That's wonderful.

:)