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Interactive Resources

Games for Change - Video games that address global issues such as poverty, human rights, education, climate change, and global conflict.

Share Save Spend - The tools and resources provided by Share Save Spend are designed to help youth and adults understand the how and why of their money decisions. Their goal is to provide concrete, actionable tools that help people shift effectively from a spend-centric mode to one that balances spending with saving and sharing.

Inspired Legacies - Giving tools for youth ages 13-18, including: ten 2 hour sessions of leadership training including fund-raising and site visit and a toolkit for after school programs, foundations, and others focused on giving by young people.

Books

The World Needs Your Kid: How to Raise Children Who Care and Contribute
Author: Craig Kielburger, Marc Kielburger, and Shelley Page
Summary: This book discusses how parents can encourage their children to become global citizens.
Published: August 24, 2009

Raising Charitable Children
Author: Carol Weizman
Summary: This book discusses multiple ways in which parents can foster philanthropy in their children.
Published: May 1, 2006

A Kids Guide to Giving
Author: Freddy Zeiler
Summary: In this inspiring and motivating book, Zeiler challenges teens to make a difference by contributing to charitable causes.
URL: http://www.innovationkids.com
Published: January 1, 2006

The Giving Book: Open the Door to a Lifetime of Giving
Author: Ellen Sabin
Summary: This book seeks to engage and inspire children ages 6-11 to give back to the world.
URL: http://www.wateringcanpress.com
Published: October 30, 2004

The Giving Family: Raising Our Children to Help Others
Author: Susan Crites Price
Summary: This book discusses multiple ways in which parents can foster philanthropy in their children.
Published: January 2003

Creating Tomorrow's Philanthropists: Curriculum Development for Youth, Number 36
Editor: Patricia O. Bjorhovde
Summary: This issue focuses on the current state of teaching of philanthropy to youth and the curricula being written to accomplish that goal. With an overview of ongoing research and key philanthropic concepts in existing curricula, chapter authors explore future implications of current trends.
Published: January 10, 2003

Newsletters

Family Giving News
Publisher: National Center for Family Philanthropy
Summary: Each month, Family Giving News highlights new articles, studies, and research on emerging trends in family philanthropy.
URL: http://www.ncfp.org/newsroom

Organizations

Every Voice in Action Foundation
Every Voice is a private foundation whose mission is to ignite and support youth voice, infusing the community with the unique perspectives of young people. They run, inspire and assist multiple youth philanthropy programs in Pima County.

Youth Philanthropy Initiative of Indiana
The Youth Philanthropy Initiative of Indiana (YPII) is a network of over 30 organizations with the common goal of engaging youth in giving and serving.

Emerging Practitioners in Philanthropy
An organization whose mission is to strengthen the next generation of grantmakers, in order to advance effective social justice philanthropy.

Youth Leadership Institute
Youth Leadership Institute was one of the first organizations in the United States to successfully carry out large-scale grantmaking exclusively for youth-driven and youth-led projects. Their website also has an extensive collection of links to youth philanthropy programs and resource tools.

Youth Grantmakers by Michigan Community Foundation Youth Project
Offers guidelines and sample documents for organizations interested in establishing a youth advisory committee. Youthgrantmakers.org is a communication of the Michigan Community Foundation Youth Project (MCFYP) of the Council of Michigan Foundations, with funding from the W. K. Kellogg Foundation

YES!
Founded in 1990 by two teenagers, YES! is a nonprofit organization that connects, inspires and collaborates with young change makers to join forces for a thriving, just and sustainable ways of life for all.

FliP – Future Leaders in Philanthropy
FLiP is dedicated to creating a community and a network where future philanthropic leaders can meet, learn, exchange ideas, and contribute to each other’s success.

The LEAGUE
The LEAGUE combines service, learning, and friendly “co-opetition” with live, interactive events. From planting trees to collecting food for the hungry, kids are returning millions of dollars worth of value back to the community. The site also offers great resources for making philanthropy part of the education curriculum, including resources for teachers, parents, religious instructors and youth workers.

Publications/Reports

Creating Change Through Family Philanthropy: The Next Generation
Authors: Alison Goldberg, Karen Pittelman & Resource Generation, Distributed in partnership with the National Committee for Responsive Philanthropy
Publisher: Soft Skull Press, 2007
Summary: Gives young people the tools they need to not jus participate but help transform the field itself. Complete with personal stories and exercises, this guide is also an essential resource for anyone who works with families with wealth.
URL: http://www.resourcegeneration.org/What/publications.html

Youth Civic Engagement Grantmaking: Strategic Review
Publisher: Rockefeller Brothers Fund, September 2009
Summary: Examines the impact, strengths, and weaknesses of RBF's strategy for building capacity among organizations that help train and empower low-income youth and youth of color working for social change. Recommends strategies for building shared infrastructure.
URL: http://www.rbf.org

A Vision for and Brief History of Youth Philanthropy
Publisher: Association of Fundraising Professionals
Summary: This report reviews the history of engaging young people in philanthropic activities in our country, and gives and overview of the current state of youth philanthropy. It reports on the outcomes of AFP's National Youth in Philanthropy Summit, which took place in November 2006, and summarizes the outcomes of that meeting.
URL: http://www.afpnet.org/

Youth and Community: Engaging Young People in Philanthropy and Service.
Publisher: W.K. Kellogg Foundation
Summary: Youth and Community shares the results of a three-month national scan that focused on the ways nonprofit organizations are engaging youth and helping them become activists and responsible leaders through various philanthropic civic activities. It documents the experiences, thoughts and opinions of leaders in the youth engagement field and illustrates how young people can be effectively involved in philanthropy.
URL: http://www.wkkf.org/Pubs/PhilVol/youthcommunity1_00251_03773.pdf

Best Practices in Youth Philanthropy
Publisher: Coalition of Community Foundations for Youth
Date: 2002
Summary: The purpose of this Best Practices report is to identify, assemble and interpret the lessons learned from the rich reservoir of practice and the emerging body of research in youth philanthropy. Thin includes a variety of youth philanthropy program models and provides examples, tips and questions that can help inform decisions about strategies, structures and activities for existing and new programs.
URL: http://www.cfleads.org/ccfy/toolbox/youth_philanthropy.htm

Raising Children with Philanthropic Values
Publisher: The Philanthropic Initiative
Date: 2003
Summary: This primer provides practical guidance, perspective and action steps for parents who are seeking to encourage charitable attitudes and behavior in their children.
URL: http://www.tpi.org/promoting/publications/raising_children_2003.pdf
AGF has? Yes

Family Philanthropy - various publications
Publisher: National Center for Family Philanthropy
Summary: From faith in family philanthropy, to grantmaking, to setting up a family foundation, the National Center for Family Philanthropy has a variety of publications and workbooks for those interested in encouraging the next generation of givers.
URL: http://www.ncfp.org/resources

Changing the Face of Giving: An Assessment of Youth Philanthropy
Publisher: James Irvine Foundation
Date: October 2001
Summary: Written by the Youth Leadership Institute, this report examines youth philanthropy as it is now being practiced and recommends future directions for this new field. The report was written to help nonprofits, government agencies, and foundations focused on youth learn more about the spread and depth of the youth philanthropy movement. Changing the Face of Giving surveys the multifaceted practice of youth-led grantmaking nationwide and then provides recommendations to funders interested in supporting such programs.
URL: http://www.irvine.org/assets/pdf/pubs/youth/Youth_Philanthropy.pdf

Helping Parents Help Children Learn: Involving Caregivers in a Child's Education
Author: Coltom, Amy B.
Publisher: Council of Michigan Foundations
Date: 2002
AGF has? Yes

Pivotal Force: The Power of Youth Allies
Publisher: National Youth Leadership Council
AGF has? Yes

Get Up, Act Up, Shape Up the World: A Guide for Today's Heroes
Publisher: National Youth Leadership Council
AGF has? Yes

Making Change for the Better: The Importance of Youth Giving
Publisher: National Endowment for Financial Education & The Center for Youth as Resources, 2004
Summary: Young people today are volunteering at the highest level in 50 years. They are eager to use their time and energy for the good of their communities. The National Endowment for Financial Education (NEFE) partnered with the Center for Youth as Resources to publish Making Change for the Better to encourage young people to contribute financially as well. The book provides youth with important information about money—how to spend it wisely, how to save it and how to give it to help others.

Leadership, Volunteerism and Giving: A Longitudinal Study of Youth Grantmakers
Author: Tice, Karin E.
Publisher: Council of Michigan Foundations
Date: 2004
AGF has? Yes

Practice of Family Philanthropy in Community Foundations
Author: Ekstrom, Helmer N.
Publisher: National Center for Family Philanthropy
Date: 2001
AGF has? Yes

We Give Books Poll on Raising Future Philanthropists
Authors: WEGIVEBOOKS.org and the Pearson Foundation
Summary: Connect the dots between parenting practices and raising children who become charitable. Results were taken from a survey of parents and teens throughout the nation.