March Moments of Service
March Is Reading Month
Help students understand the importance of literacy and supporting literacy in their community and world.
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Women's History Month
Use the courage, passion and conviction of women philanthropists to inspire and motivate your students to serve.
World Water Day (March 22)
Focus student attention on the need for drinking water and irrigation to alleviate world hunger. Challenge your students to address the issue of water through a service project.
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What Will You Bring to the Table? (March 18 to April 30)
This national hunger campaign challenges kids across the country to bring their ideas, skills, family and friends to the table and generate one million meals for children experiencing hunger in America.
generationOn Lessons & Resources
Kids Care Clubs develop compassion and the spirit of service in elementary and middle school children. Service projects and resources are posted monthly on the site. Registration is free. http://www.kidscare.org/
What Will You Bring to the Table? Hunger Awareness Campaign
There are almost 17 million kids in the United States experiencing hunger throughout the year. That means more than 1 in 5 kids in America do not know where their next meal is coming from.
Together, we can do better. With this national hunger campaign, generationOn challenges kids across the country to bring their ideas, skills, family and friends to the table to fight to help end child hunger by raising awareness about the issue.
We want youth in cities around the United States to build and decorate picnic tables and use them as the campaign centerpiece to help provide 1 million meals for hungry kids. Read more at www.whatwillyoubringtothetable.org
Learning to Give Literature Guides combine selected literature with thought-provoking activities that teach children about giving and civic engagement. Whether you are a parent, youth leader, teacher, or mentor, you can use shared reading experiences to inform and inspire children to act for the common good. 
Learning to Give Lessons
A single class-period lesson that focuses on making a difference in the community through fundraising. These lessons include bonus Learning Links and Reflection Activities.
- Banking on the Future: Penny Drive
- Designing Your Philanthropic Collage: Penny Drive
- How Do We Spend, Save, and Donate?: Penny Drive
- Living Your Passion: Penny Drive
- Lucky Money: Penny Drive
- Madam C.J. Walker—Leader in Philanthropy and Successful Business Woman
- Makes Cents to Me: Penny Drive
- Making Choices with Scarce Resources: Penny Drive
- Motivations for Giving: Penny Drive
- Philanthropy--Why?: Penny Drive
- Pollution Solutions (8th Grade)
- Reading for Pennies: Penny Drive
- Spend, Save or Donate: Penny Drive
- Water--Where Has It Gone? (6th Grade)
- Where Does It All Come From? Penny Drive
- Who Will Care for the Water? (7th Grade)
Learning to Give Units
Multi-lesson service-learning units related to the themes of the month, correlated to state and national Common Core standards, to teach responsible citizenship, civic engagement, and service for the common good.
Grades K-2
- Buckets of Bucks for World Hunger
- Philanthropic Literature
- Sharing the Gift of Literacy
- Water Makes Our World Go 'Round
- What Will You Bring to the Table? (K-2)
- What's All the Commotion in the Ocean?
Grades 3-5
- Each One, Teach One
- My Water, Your Water, Our Water
- Rivers for the Common Good
- The Important Thing About Reading
- What Will You Bring to the Table? (3-5)
Grades 6-8
- Are You a River Keeper?
- Courage of the Heart
- Helping Children Learn
- Oil Changes Everything
- Our Air: The Quest for Quality
- Social Action Project (The)
- Stitch in Time for the Common Good (A)
- Water Resources and the Role of the Independent Sector
- Watershed S.O.S. (Saving Our Sources) 6-8
- What Will You Bring to the Table? (6-8)
- Women of the Industrial Era
- Worthless to Priceless: It's all Relative
Grades 9-12
- Heroism In Literature
- Literacy for You and Me
- Philanthropy at Home and Abroad
- Superheroes as Philanthropists
- What Will You Bring to the Table? (9-12)
Quotations
View quotations about women, books, and making a difference.
Profiles in Philanthropy
Informational Papers related to concepts of civil society and service
- Children in Fundraising
- Community Needs Assessments
- Motivations for Giving and Serving
- Common Good
- Women and Philanthropy
- Women’s Use of the Nonprofit Sector as an Alternative Power Source
- Youth Philanthropy
School Year Calendar
generationOn and Learning to Give are excited to offer a menu of resources to help you implement service-learning and philanthropy education into your school! View the generationOn School Year Calendar to discover more service opportunities.
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