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Sports Illustrated’s Stewart Mandel Kicks Off Conference Showdown

By Jeff W Thursday, Aug 14, 2008 at 11:01am

In addition to it being ‘back-to-school time,’ it’s also time for college football! Personally, I can’t wait to get back “between the hedges” in Sanford Stadium to watch my alma mater, the University of Georgia Bulldogs, play. The season is just two weeks away now and we’re extremely excited about a fun competition that Sports Illustrated’s Senior Writer, Stewart Mandel, started yesterday.

In the latest edition of Stewart’s popular College Football Mailbag column, he challenged his readers to show which conference has the best fans based upon their donations to DonorsChoose.org. Stewart Mandel’s Conference Showdown will run for the next six weeks to determine which conference’s fans are the most passionate and the most charitable.

Will the ever rabid fans of the SEC win the showdown title as their teams have done on the field the last two years? Or will loyalists of the Big Ten demonstrate that this is their year? Are the Pac-10 faithful tired of being overlooked? The Showdown is an opportunity to make a statement for a good cause.

So I hope you’ll join with me at DonorsChoose.org/SI Showdown and instead of just telling everyone that your conference is the best, actually put your money where your mouth is.

Go SEC!

SI Stew Mandel Conference Showdown

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Founders of Teach for America, KIPP and DonorsChoose.org come together in Atlanta

By Jeff W Wednesday, Jun 25, 2008 at 3:36pm

Two organizations that we at DonorsChoose.org have a lot of respect for are Teach for America and the Knowledge Is Power Program (KIPP). That’s why we jumped at the chance to work with our colleagues here in Atlanta to convene a panel made up of: Wendy Kopp, founder of Teach for America, Mike Feinberg, co-founder of KIPP, and our own founder, Charles Best.

These three Fast Company/Monitor Group Social Capitalist Award Winners spoke on June 10th, about improving education in our country. They also shared some fun stories about starting their organizations – who knew U2’s “Achtung Baby” played a key part in the founding of KIPP or that it would take some tasty treats to convince the first teachers to use DonorsChoose.org?

The audience made up of community leaders spanning foundations, corporations, the government, and education, participated in the discussion and networked before and after the event. Further demonstrating the collaboration among our organizations, a first grade Teach for America teacher, a fifth grade KIPP teacher who had received resources through DonorsChoose.org, as well as Jaime Williams, previously featured on our blog for her class’ Pay It Forward project, also attended.

The strong turnout really spoke to the emphasis that Atlanta leaders place on education. We at DonorsChoose.org are excited and energized to be a part of this great community of organizations and leaders as we work toward providing solutions to the challenges that face education today!

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