Helping Kids Help: Organizing Successful Charitable Projects

Parents, teachers, and other group leaders who work with children will find much-needed guidance to organizing charitable projects in this helpful guide to youth philanthropy. Helping adults instill children with life skills such as commitment, sacrifice, cooperation, tolerance, and even valuable career skills, this volume contains dozens of real-life profiles of adults and children involved in service—the struggles they overcame, the lessons they learned, and the benefits they enjoyed. Specific charitable project ideas, print and Web resources, and guidance on details such as assigning tasks, selecting charities for fundraising contributions, and parental permission issues are also included.