Learning to Give, Philanthropy education resources that teach giving and civic engagement

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Nine Ways to Raise Children Who Give, Share & Care

  1. Model and teach giving and caring in your own family.

  2. Share information with other families and include your children's friends in volunteer activities.

  3. Contact your children's schools and encourage them to use teacher-developed, teacher-tested lesson plans from Learning to Give as part of the core curriculum.

  4. Encourage your school to include high-quality “Academic Service-Learning” as a teaching method.

  5. Purchase books and materials that teach lessons of giving, sharing, and service for your school library. (A list of age-appropriate books with a variety of themes about giving and sharing may be found in the Learning to Give Annotated Bibliography.)

  6. Create opportunities for young people to be involved in the activities of local charities through your involvement as a volunteer or as a member of a local nonprofit board.

  7. Explore the Learning to Give Web site for lesson plans and other resources on teaching philanthropy.

  8. Read books to your children that contain messages of giving, service, caring and community. Discuss these concepts. (A list of age-appropriate books with a variety of themes about giving and sharing may be found in the Learning to Give Annotated Bibliography.)

  9. Walk around your “downtown” pointing out all of the nonprofit organizations, churches, libraries and human service groups that form your community's powerful network of giving and serving.