| In 2002, the Charities Review Council debuted our youth philanthropy program, Great Givers. Great Givers teaches young people how to be effective givers of time and money. Through Great Givers lesson plans, the curriculum focuses on developing strong habits of charitable giving and volunteering. It also introduces the idea of informed giving—how to make satisfying gifts that make a difference. A key premise of Great Givers is that effective giving involves developing meaningful criteria for making informed choices.
Great Givers began out of concern that philanthropy is rarely, if ever, mentioned when students learn about personal finance. As young adults learn about spending vs. saving, balancing a checkbook, and making wise investments, lessons of effective charitable giving are rarely mentioned. We wanted to change that by conveying consistent messages where young people spend much of their time and could be exposed to such concepts: the classroom.
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