TV comedian and soon-to-be Late Show host Stephen Colbert announced Thursday that he would fund all grant requests from South Carolina on the crowdfunding site Donorschoose.org, worth $800,000.
He made the announcement via a live video feed to Alexander Elementary in Greenville, South Carolina, from a funding conference in New York, according to Greenville Online.
Donorschoose.org is an education crowdfunding website where public school teachers from all over the country request grants for projects, and donors get to decide what project their money goes towards.
Along with Donors Choose, Colbert also partnered with Share Fair Nation, which puts on education innovation events, and Scansource, a technology distribution company.
"Using the proceeds of the sale of my old set on The Colbert Report which we auctioned off, and with the generous matching funds from The Morgridge Family Foundation and ScanSource, DonorsChoose is going to flash-fund all 1,000 projects in South Carolina," Colbert said. "Enjoy your learning, South Carolina."