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Kids and Philanthropy: Teaching Your Children To Be Charitable

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I’ve been volunteering for community causes since I was a kid, something my family encouraged. I gave it to my daughter, Sara. I asked her, “If you could give a donation to any charity to support whatever cause you feel is important, what would it be?” I grew up at the Jersey Shore. Faber is a Philanthroteen.

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Are you celebrating Giving Tuesday? These NTEN Members are!

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Academy of Hope Adaptive Sports Partners of the North Country American Brain Tumor Association American Cancer Society American Childhood Cancer Organization American Heart Association American Jewish World Service American Liver Foundation American Lung Association American Red Cross AmeriCares Animal Humane Society Apple Tree Arts Arcus Foundation (..)

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Another Model of Giving: Socially Responsible Small Businesses

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Kids Against Hunger packages and ships highly nutritious, life-saving meals to starving and malnourished children in developing countries and the United States. They do this by mobilizing children, teens, and adults volunteers who, package the meals. The result was the creation of the nutrition food pictured above.

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Means and Ends: Who does What

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One of the major causes of friction in the area of nonprofit leadership and poor nonprofit board performance, and a big reason why boards and CEO’s may part ways, is poor boundary setting between the board and the CEO. Luckily for us, governance consultant Tom Okarma has written a terrific guest post for us this week on exactly this topic.

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6 Fundraising Platforms That Have Disrupted Charitable Giving Forever

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Whether it’s sharing a #CecilTheLion cartoon, or sharing a #PlannedParenthood petition, all of these actions are expressions of our passion for causes we love. Since GoFundMe is an open platform where people can solicit support for life events of any kind users have found plenty of uses for it – like supporting charitable causes.

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Chase Community Giving Contest: The Organizations on the Leaderboard Go Up and Down

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Each organization received $25,000 and the announcement caused some controversy because of the contest eligibility rules and lack of a leaderboard. . For example, Friendship Circle, had a rallied at a Piston's Game in Detroit (see above video) and organized 3,000 teens to play freeze tag on Facebook to rally the vote.

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Kids and Kickstarter: The Rise of PhilanthroKids and Kid Crowdfunding!

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Charlotte, A Young Teen, Helping To Save Horse Farm Through A Kick Starter Campaign. He created his own nonprofit and program called “” Brae’s Brown Bags ” to help fight against hunger, probably making him one of the youngest nonprofit CEOs and founders. Crowdfunding in general has raised more than 5.1

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