iStock/Thinkstock(BOSTON) — A third-grade teacher in Boston who won $150,000 in an online contest donated her entire winnings to her school.
Nicole “Nikki” Bollerman, 26, was honored this week by Boston Mayor Marty Walsh after she donated her grand prize of $150,000 from a Capital One #WishForOthers contest that also funded three books per school child.
“To me there was no other real option. I mean, I wished for it for the kids. Where else would it go other than them?” Bollerman told Boston public radio station WBUR. “As you can see they are so wonderful, and I just wanted it to go to them.”
Bollerman teaches at UP Academy Dorchester, a public charter school that’s a year old.
“My #wishforothers is that my voracious, adorable, hardworking, loving scholars all leave for their December break with a book in their hand,” wrote Bollerman in her winning entry, according to the school’s website.
Capital One’s video of the book unveiling has been viewed about 900,000 times.
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