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Charles Best
Founder & CEO of DonorsChoose.org
Charles Best leads DonorsChoose.org, a website where every public school teacher can be a change-maker, and any citizen can be a philanthropist. At DonorsChoose.org, public school teachers post classroom project requests, and donors can pick the projects they want to support. Every donor then gets photographs and thank–you letters from the classroom he or she chose to help. Recognition of DonorsChoose.org includes the Nonprofit Innovation Award given by Stanford Business School and Amazon.com, and a Global Technology Laureate from the TECH Museum of Innovation and Microsoft. Oprah Winfrey and The New York Times have profiled DonorsChoose as "the future of philanthropy." Fortune Magazine has twice featured Charles in the "40 under 40" list of "business’s hottest rising stars."
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Adam Braun
Founder & Executive Director of Pencils of Promise
Adam founded Pencils of Promise in October 2008 with a mere $25 in hopes of building one school in Laos. The movement that grew out of the PoP approach of nonprofit idealism and for-profit business accountability soon encouraged Adam to leave his job at Bain & Company and work exclusively on realizing the PoP dream. Today, that dream has manifested into more than 40 schools in Laos, Nicaragua and Guatemala. In creating a dedicated community of over 250,000 members, PoP has become a leader in social media engagement, sustainable development, youth empowerment and digital innovation.
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Michael Karnjanaprakorn
CEO & Co–founder of Skillshare
In addition to co–founding Skillshare, Michael is a Venture Advisor for Collaborative Fund and a 2012 TED Fellow. Michael also led the product team at Hot Potato, which was acquired by Facebook, and he developed products and services that organized the creative world at Behance. As a philanthropist, Michael was the co–founder of All Day Buffet and The Feast. In his spare time, he’s an avid roschambo player, NYC foodie, HBO fanatic, and sometimes Foursquare Mayor of Tacombi.
