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The ‘Most Likely To Make The World a Better Place’ Award at the inaugural Crunchies (a start-up flavoured awards cermenony lead by Techcrunch in partnership with Read/Write Web, VentureBeat and GigaOM) went to Donorschoose.
Donorschoose is a US site that highlights the needs of public schools and enables users to donate to help schools get the proper teaching materials and improve the quality of teaching. The concept was started by just one teacher in the public schools of the Bronx back in 2000 when he saw first hand the effects of the inequality of funding and distribution of funds for learning materials.
