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by swozey 3007 days ago
That's killer, thanks Ripple! $29MM!

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#BestSchoolDay 2018: Every Project Funded! MARCH 27, 2018 STEPHEN BURKENEWS

#BestSchoolDay is here! Last night, Ripple fully funded every single live DonorsChoose.org classroom project. That’s over 35,000 projects in one enormous $29 million dollar act of generosity. We literally don’t have words to express our gratitude, so we had to invent some. We’re flabbermazed. Astonified. It blew us away, knocked our socks off... WOW! Here’s a message from Ripple and our founder, Charles, talking about why Ripple chose to support our creative community of teachers with this [Read more...]

edit: Someone's going hard on downvoting every comment in here. Do you not like teachers receiving money to help their students?

1 comments

> Do you not like teachers receiving money to help their students?

It's a shame that you need charities for such things.