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Give As We Grow

Give As We Grow® is a digital platform educating the next generation about giving and philanthropic action. Do you want to make a difference?

Think time, treasure, talent, and ties.

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Game

A first-of-its-kind, free educational mobile app that teaches kids to tap into their unique talents and interests to help others.

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Giving Journal

A tool for families to track their in-game and real-world acts of giving, so they can see their impact over time.

Resource Library

A curated collection of resources to help families fuel a culture of generosity at every age and stage.

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Nurture your child’s generosity and desire to help others! Check out the Give As We Grow® game, available on Android and IOS.

Activities and Resources for Raising Generous Kids

About Give As We Grow®

For families cultivating a culture of generosity and service, you can’t start too young. Give as We Grow® is your family’s destination for philanthropic education and generosity tracking, with age-appropriate content for children of all ages in the resource library. Grounded in research and developed to respond to an identified need for families, the play-based learning game currently serves child users in the upper-elementary age range. 

Identifying passions and seeing progression over time helps intentional parents foster their children’s interests and prepare them for lives of purpose. Throughout their journey, children who track their giving and experiences through this platform can see themes emerge from their own giving history. Our resources and offerings are designed to equip parents and encourage children to give where they go, and give as they grow.

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Giving for every season

International Friendship Day Activities

Give back as a family today! Scroll through these easy ideas and check out our resource library for more.

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Project Guides

Back-to-School Kindness Challenge

Doing Good Together

Use these printable checklists to encourage kindness and generosity during the back-to-school season.

Activities

Can I Help You With Anything?

Kindness.org

This heartfelt video follows Joe as he offers to help strangers. Through these small acts of kindness, he makes new connections and a positive impact.

Project Guides

Service Sparks: Boost Happiness with Art

Learning to Give

This service project helps kids spread kindness by encouraging them to first identify the things that make their friends, family, and neighbors happy, then use that information to creative positive window or sidewalk art.

Project Guides

Host a Card-Making Party

Doing Good Together

This giving project idea shares step-by-step instructions for engaging creativity to make kind, heartfelt handmade cards.

Activities

Peaceful Pen Pals Project

Kids for Peace

Help your child sign up to become a domestic or international pen pal, a great way to build compassion and empathy, through this program.

Activities

Create Friendship Bracelets

Doing Good Together

Start a conversation about friendship with this activity as you make homemade bracelets.

Games

Elmo’s School Friends

PBS Kids

Identify common emotions by exploring Elmo’s classroom in this online game.

Project Guides

Design a Giving Plate

Doing Good Together

This creative craft and baking activity helps spread joys to neighbors, especially those who might be experiencing isolation.

What they’re saying

Testimonials

Give Is As We Grow is awesome! It’s just fun – there is no other way to describe it. I love earning heart points to make my garden better.

Annabel K.

(player, age 8)

Giving is rooted in empathy, compassion, understanding of humanity, and sharing between people. We are excited to give the next generation of givers tangible, easy, and fun tools like Give As We Grow to spark radical generosity.

Celeste Flores

Director, U.S. + Canada Hub, GivingTuesday

Particularly for younger kids, in-person volunteering may be impossible because of the types of activities and potential risks that nonprofits can’t take on. The virtual environment of Give As We Grow sets kids on a path to generosity before they are able to do in-person service.

Diana Heath

Chief Operating Officer, NCFP

Collection is innate in kids, which creates a natural opportunity to teach kids financial literacy—about spending, saving, and sharing—early. It’s important for kids to know that not everything that comes to them should stay with them; that it’s important to share.

Elizabeth Phillips

Executive Director, Phillips Foundation

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