"Double Your Impact": A Grant Announcement to DonorsChoose.org, Hosted by Stephen Colbert

On April 21, 2009, comedian Stephen Colbert moderated an education panel at New York's Manhattan Bridges High School in which the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation announced a grant of $4.1 million to nonprofit DonorsChoose.org. Colbert, a board member and supporter of the charity, explained how this online organization allows teachers to request needed funding from individual donors for classroom projects not covered by school budgets.

Category:

Nonprofits & Activism

Tags:

• Bill
• Melinda
• Gates
• Foundation
• philanthropy
• education
• high
• schools
• Stephen
• Colbert
• DonorsChoose.org

[rachyg32]

i love his cute little desk with his name badge, apple, pencils etc.

love stephen too <3

[conciergemktg]

Great information -- Thanks for posting. Stephen Colbert is a class act and is a great communicator. I wasn't stuffed into lockers, but I was a dork! :) Lisa Pelto

[Annebelle337]

I wonder if he had his crew from the TV show come to film this. That would explain why it's shot so professionally.

Kudos for the Spanish!

[yencid]

dude i know that teacher!

wtf xD

i was there that day.

[carlosarios]

Hot teacherssss; nice skirt

[hcortens]

I like how you criticize his Spanish yet you can't speak English properly...

[diegoaac]

Stephen's spanish is very bad, i don't know how he speak with Esteban in his show

[whatiwasgoingtosay]

Wow, the way this is filmed, it looks like a movie. The lighting and the set-up and the shots. Whoever did this gets big kudos.

[yencid]

MY SCHOOL!

MBHS FTW!

[c2kmedical]

The production design of this announcement is really smart. I love that the three representatives of the organizations are in school desks. Brilliant!

[THingOLooooooo]

Colbert is the man