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SHERYL SANDBERG LEADING IN CHARITABLE EFFORTS
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Sheryl Sandberg Leading in Charitable Efforts

Apr 15, 2017

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Page 1: Sheryl Sandberg Leading in Charitable Efforts

SHERYL SANDBERGLEADING IN

CHARITABLE EFFORTS

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Even as Facebook’s chiefoperating officer, SheyrlSandberg is certainly nostranger to the world ofphilanthropy. During herundergraduate career as aresearch assistant at theWorld Bank, she activelyworked on humanitarianbased projects improvinghealth problems fromleprosy to AIDS in Indiabefore her career atGoogle.

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Recently, the FacebookCOO is teaming up withDonorsChoose to giveback to public schoolsacross the country as partof the #BestSchoolDaycampaign.The#BestSchoolDaycampaign is a nationalfundraising movement,ensuring that studentshave the appropriateresources, opportunitiesand supplies to foster asuccessful environmentwithin the classroom.

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Sandberg has teamedup with the CharlesBest, the founder and

CEO ofDonorsChoose.org tofind the passion thatdrives students toexcel, while also

finding the necessarymeans to cultivate theiracademic potential.

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Given her extensive philanthropic track record, theFacebook COO still strives to improve the public

education system across the country as shestrongly believes this is the foundational elementfor children to excel. “Education is everything.

When children get the high quality education theydeserve, it opens up a lifetime of choice and

opportunity,” she said.

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Sandberg has continued mark herself not onlyas a leading female professional in the techindustry, but also as a leading figure who has

consistently shown generosity similar towealthy charity advocates such as Warren

Buffett and Bill Gates. In 2012 alone, she giftedmore than 400,000 Facebook stock to a

disclosed charitable cause, further reaffirmingefforts similar to CEO Mark Zuckerberg.

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She has also signed the Giving Pledge, in which shewill donate a majority of her acquired wealth in the

tech industry to charitable causes such aseducation, global health and poverty. Movingforward as a primary force in Facebook’s

development, Sandberg has been instrumental interms of challenging and advancing the tech giant’scharitable vision as the company further grows in

the social media market.

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More than fifty professionals across a wide arrayof industries including actors, entrepreneurs andphilanthropists have collaborated in order to

cultivate the tools to guide children throughoutthe learning process in schools across the

country.To learn more and join the conversationon Twitter, use the hashtag #BestSchoolDay to

help a school in your community.