Three young ladies from NCGives partner Leading to Change help lead a session at the 2007 Community Investment Network Conference.
Here's a look at the ever-increasing convergence of young people and philanthropy within the world of technology.
For Modern Kids, 'Philanthropy' Is No Grown-Up Word
(from the Washington Post, by Philip Rucker)
In lieu of presents at her 12th birthday party this year, Maddie Freed of Potomac asked her friends to bring money, and she raised $800 for Children's Hospital.
Eight-year-old Jenny Hoekman saves a third of what she makes walking dogs, and this month the Takoma Park girl donated it to help her Brownie troop sponsor an immigrant family.
And in Club Penguin, a popular online game club for the elementary school set, more than 2.5 million kids gave their virtual earnings to charities in a contest this month. In response, the site's founders are giving $1 million to charities based on the children's preferences.
Young children and teenagers across the nation are getting involved in philanthropy more than ever, according to research and nonprofit experts, who credit new technologies with the rise of the trend. As young people increasingly become exposed to and connected with the problems of the world via the Internet and television, experts said, parents are finding new ways to instill in their children the value of giving...
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Creating a Wide Web of Givers
(from The Philadelphia Inquirer, by Lisa Arthur)
They're not into galas, gowns or black tie. Their icons are Bill Clinton and Bono. And like just about everything else in their lives, they do it online.
Generation Wired - the Gen Xers, Gen Yers, and even the more techno-savvy of the baby boomers - are reinventing the rules of giving, using the Internet to reshape the philanthropic map. Now, a crisis on the other side of the globe demands their charity as much as or more than a crisis in their hometown.
"There is no such thing as local anymore," said Ruth Shack, president of the Dade Community Foundation in Miami. "This new generation of givers are very, very different. They see themselves as change agents. . . . They are giving to issues. Global warming or breast cancer or whatever it is they feel close to."
Want to find young donors, budding community activists, and volunteers? Forget about the traditional phone, direct mail and workplace campaigns. Try MySpace.com, Facebook.com, Change.org, Idealist.org, and blogs and e-mail. This goes beyond using Web sites to collect donations, an idea that grew after the worldwide giving that poured into relief agencies after disasters like the 2004 Indian Ocean tsunami and Hurricane Katrina...
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"A New Generation Reinvents Philanthropy" & "Donors: The Next Generation"
