{"id":269,"date":"2013-04-17T12:30:16","date_gmt":"2013-04-17T16:30:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.columbiasocialenterprise.org\/conference\/?p=269"},"modified":"2013-09-03T10:06:45","modified_gmt":"2013-09-03T14:06:45","slug":"keynote-speaker-charles-best","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.columbiasocialenterprise.org\/conference2013\/keynote-speaker-charles-best\/","title":{"rendered":"Keynote Speaker: Charles Best"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Charles Best<\/strong>\u00a0leads DonorsChoose.org, a nonprofit organization which provides a simple way to address educational inequity&#8230;.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>At DonorsChoose.org, public school teachers create classroom project requests and donors can pick the projects they want to support.\u00a0Mr. Best launched the organization in 2000 out of a Bronx public high school where he taught history. DonorsChoose.org is one of Oprah Winfrey\u2019s \u201cultimate favorite things\u201d and was named by Fast Company as one of the \u201c50 Most Innovative Companies in the World,\u201d the first time a charity has received this recognition.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Charles Best\u00a0leads DonorsChoose.org, a nonprofit organization which provides a simple way to address educational inequity&#8230;. &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; At DonorsChoose.org, public school teachers create classroom project requests and donors can pick the projects they want to support.\u00a0Mr. Best launched the organization in 2000 out of a Bronx public high school where he [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":763,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":true,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-269","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.columbiasocialenterprise.org\/conference2013\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/269","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.columbiasocialenterprise.org\/conference2013\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.columbiasocialenterprise.org\/conference2013\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.columbiasocialenterprise.org\/conference2013\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.columbiasocialenterprise.org\/conference2013\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=269"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/www.columbiasocialenterprise.org\/conference2013\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/269\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":762,"href":"https:\/\/www.columbiasocialenterprise.org\/conference2013\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/269\/revisions\/762"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.columbiasocialenterprise.org\/conference2013\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/763"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.columbiasocialenterprise.org\/conference2013\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=269"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.columbiasocialenterprise.org\/conference2013\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=269"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.columbiasocialenterprise.org\/conference2013\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=269"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}