So we started Donors' Choose in 2000.

In 2001, September 11 happens.

Coronavirus threatens to widen educational inequity in America,

to deepen that fissure in our country.

And yet at the same time, those kids' teachers know exactly

what those students need to keep learning from home.

When people are feeling insecure and anxious,

sometimes that can actually generate more empathy for others

who are in even more dire circumstances.

And in times of crisis and anxiety and insecurity,

sometimes people can actually be more altruistic.

That sense of people out there who you've never met

rooting for you and reaching through the web to help you

in physical ways, that's, I think, more powerful than the donation itself.

High listeners, it's Reed.

We're continuing our special coverage.

And today, I'm talking to Charles Best, founder, and CEO

of Donors' Choose.

That's the crowdfunding platform that serves K-12 teachers

in the US.

Charles recently passed the milestone of a billion dollars raised

and will have a full episode with him later this spring.

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