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American philanthropist and entrepreneur

Charles Best is an American philanthropist and entrepreneur.

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He is the founder and CEO of , a crowdfunding platform for K teachers serving in US schools, and the founder of Irregardless, a crowd-sourced writing style guide. In he became the CEO of Lakeshore Learning, a chain of educational supply stores.^[1]

Education

Best attended high school at St.

Paul's School, a boarding school in New Hampshire.^[2] Best graduated Phi Beta Kappa from Yale College in He also holds a certificate in fundraising management from the Harvard Kennedy School.^[3]

Career

Two years after his college graduation, Best launched ^[4] while serving as a high school history teacher in the Bronx.

Best founded the organization after seeing first-hand the limited resources and opportunities available in his school. The site allows teachers to post project requests for classroom supplies, resources Meet the Team - DonorsChoose DYLU