Stephen Colbert And Me At Donors Choose NYC Event

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The other day Stephen Colbert was at New York's Manhattan Bridges High School in order to interview Charles Best of http://www.DonorsChoose.org. For those unfamiliar, Donors Choose is "an online organization that allows teachers to request needed funding from individual donors for classroom projects not covered by school budgets."

And I was in the Press Section for the event, and little did I know that Donors Choose has their own http://www.youtube.com/user/DonorsChoose - Awesome :) So I was pleased to learn that the videos are available for your viewing pleasure!

As you all know - I helped with Donors Choose's Blogger's Challenge = http://www.donorschoose.org/bloggers which was a blast = http://waltribeiro.net/2008/10/01/helping-with-donorschooseorgs-music-charity...

This all came to the attention of The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation's announcement of a $4.1 million grant for DonorsChoose.org, a nonprofit organization = http://www.gatesfoundation.org/

I learned the other day that Colbert is a board member and supporter of DonorsChoose.org - where he mentioned that he had found out about it through Craig Newmark, the founder of Craigslist. Basically, the story mentioned that Craig made a donation in the name of his Presidential Campaign.

All in all it was a blast. Enjoy the videos!

Category:

Entertainment

Tags:

• Stephen Colbert
• Charity
• Donors Choose
• NYC

[zambonni]

haha! NICE! Yeah, i thought you were gonna jam with him!

[RaddNiner]

man i thought you guys were gonna be jamming or something

[boyofSins]

i am so jealous!!!

[buddylikeguitar]

omg he is the funnyest person in the world