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- Hi everyone, this is Sal Khan here from Khan Academy,
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as you might notice, I am back in the walk-in closet
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where Khan Academy first started.
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I am socially distanced, like I'm sure many of you all are.
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And I just wanted to give you a quick message,
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because I know in this time of crisis,
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there's a lot of anxieties about health,
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about the economy, and the fact that there are a billion
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students, and you might be one of them,
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who are not in school who otherwise would be.
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And all of us at Khan Academy, as a not for profit
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with a mission of providing a free world class
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education for anyone anywhere, we view it as our duty
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to step up for the world during this crisis.
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Over the last many years, we've been building resources
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starting in pre-k with Khan Academy Kids
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that covers math, reading, writing,
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social/emotional learning.
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And as you get into elementary school,
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with math, and then we've recently launched
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English and Language Arts.
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Then we go through middle school
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and then in high school, math.
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We have things like SAT practice.
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That's reading, writing, and mathematics.
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And we have sciences.
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And we have humanities.
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We even go into early college courses.
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And we realized that all of those
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can help bridge the gap
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as we go through this crisis together globally.
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But we wanna do more.
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That's why we have been doing things
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like webinars and live streams for parents and teachers
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around the world.
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We have our daily homeroom live stream
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that we're doing for folks.
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And we're just trying to figure out anything
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we can do to support you, the student, the teacher,
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the parent better.
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I do wanna remind everyone,
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we are a not for profit organization.
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And that means we are supported by philanthropic
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donations from folks like yourself.
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You own Khan Academy as much as I do.
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No one is the owner of Khan Academy.
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It is a public charity.
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And we were already running a deficit
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before this crisis hit,
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but now our load on our servers is 250%
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of what it typically would be,
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and it's continuing to accelerate.
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And so our costs are going up.
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Our budget is the budget of a large high school,
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but we reach a reasonable chunk of humanity.
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And that chunk is getting even larger
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and folks need us even more
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in this time of crisis.
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So, if you find yourself to be in a position.
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You wanna make sure that other people have access
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to free, world class education,
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and that students, teachers, parents
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around the world are as supported as possible,
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please think about making a donation.
