Singer Taylor Swift reached out with a $10,000 donation to Boston’s Horace Mann School for the Deaf and Hard of Hearing after it was disqualified from a contest due to voters who thought it would be funny for the school to win a concert via Facebook. Here’s what happened: Papa John’s Pizza and textbook company Chegg co-sponsored the contest, in which the school with the most votes would win a live performance by Taylor. Initially, the votes for the school originated from a small group of people but after hearing about the mean-spirited prank, thousands joined in to vote for Horace Mann. It was eventually decided by the sponsors that the school was disqualified because of the way it got the votes. However, they, along with Taylor, donated $10,000 each to the school, as did CoverGirl and American Greetings for a total of $50,000. But that’s not all. VH1’s Save the Music program contributed an additional $10,000 worth of instruments and Swift is also giving each student at the school a ticket for her next local show. ~Luxy Hariharan