{"id":2604,"date":"2018-06-22T18:00:55","date_gmt":"2018-06-22T22:00:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.fromscratchradio.com\/show\/?p=2604"},"modified":"2018-06-22T22:41:12","modified_gmt":"2018-06-23T02:41:12","slug":"charles-best","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.fromscratchradio.org\/show\/charles-best","title":{"rendered":"Charles Best"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"intro\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.fromscratchradio.com\/show\/images\/guests\/CharlesBest.jpg\" alt=\"Charles Best\" style=\"border:none;\" \/><a href=\"http:\/\/www.donorschoose.org\/\">DonorsChoose<\/a> is an online philanthropic marketplace that connects citizen philanthropists\u2014 members of the public&#8211;  to public school teachers who request supplies for their classroom projects across the United States.  Charles started DonorsChoose in 2000 while he was a public school teacher in the Bronx facing his own shortage of supplies for the projects he wanted to create with his students. The organization has raised over $300M, benefiting almost 15 million students.<\/p>\n<p>Charles speaks with Jessica Harris about how he launched DonorsChoose, from scratch. <\/p>\n<p><a class=\"wpaudio\" href=\"http:\/\/fromscratchradio.com\/audio\/CharlesBest-FromScratch-062218.mp3\">Listen to the interview<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>DonorsChoose is an online philanthropic marketplace that connects citizen philanthropists\u2014 members of the public&#8211; to public school teachers who request supplies for their classroom projects across the United States. Charles started DonorsChoose in 2000 while he was a public school teacher in the Bronx facing his own shortage of supplies for the projects he wanted [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2604","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-guests"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fromscratchradio.org\/show\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2604","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fromscratchradio.org\/show\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fromscratchradio.org\/show\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fromscratchradio.org\/show\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fromscratchradio.org\/show\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2604"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/www.fromscratchradio.org\/show\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2604\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3478,"href":"https:\/\/www.fromscratchradio.org\/show\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2604\/revisions\/3478"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fromscratchradio.org\/show\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2604"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fromscratchradio.org\/show\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2604"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fromscratchradio.org\/show\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2604"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}