On Wednesday night’s episode of The Colbert Report, our board member Stephen T. Colbert auctioned off a portrait of himself, with all proceeds going to art projects on our site. The portrait sold for $26,000!
Then came an announcement which floored us all: Jimmy Fallon will be matching those proceeds with a $26,000 donation of his own. That’s a total of $52,000 in funding for art projects in high-need public schools! Mr. Fallon’s match will deliver art supplies to 1,400 students. On their behalf, thank you, Mr. Fallon. You are one generous guy.
And thank you, Stephen, for making this all possible.
Watch the hilarious clip and take part at DonorsChoose.org/falloncolbertproject.
How can projects get submitted to the Jimmy fallon project? My project is related to the photography and science.
Comment by Krystal — March 29, 2011 at 10:50pm
Oh, how we would love one of our ART projects listed on the Jimmy Fallon page! Art education is so important for our students learning! Please consider… http://www.donorschoose.org/mrs.kopecki
Comment by Susan Kopecki — April 8, 2011 at 8:56pm
[...] might recognize this as a continuation of a previous Stephen Colbert effort, and he’s got something really good going with Jimmy Fallon, but I feel you should support the bigger [...]
Pingback by Craig Newmark: My DonorsChoose Thing for Military Families/Teachers’ Classrooms | Blog Of The Year — April 11, 2011 at 9:23am
April is the month of the Military Child. Please consider supporting my project to help young children of military personnel. We plan to teach them projects that will enable them to keep in contact with their parents who are deployed.
See: http://www.donorschoose.org/donors/proposal.html?id=567759&challengeid=147939
Thank you for your consideration.
Comment by Dona — April 21, 2011 at 7:03pm