Based on financial capacity, allocate 5-10% of my income to support organizations whose missions align with my core values. In cases where monetary donations are not feasible, contribute through volunteering my time, skills, or leveraging my career to make a meaningful impact in these organizations.
What is a Giving Goal?
Often, the idealism of youth is lost as one achieves success and acquires material possessions later in life. What was originally considered to be “enough” or even “beyond my wildest dreams” can become just another milestone on one’s quest…
Capturing your current vision of how you wish to give of yourself and your resources in the future could help you plan to give more meaningfully. Revisiting this vision in ten or twenty years could provide a reminder of the ideals of your youth that may shape or re-shape your future actions.
If you have already posted your Giving Goal and would like to update your email for future reminders, please contact [email protected]
Step 1
Have a healthy and vigorous dialogue in your class on the general idea of having a personal Giving Goal as a college student.
Step 2
Set a Giving Goal concerning your future giving plans.
Step 3
Share a brief statement of your Giving Goals on The Philanthropy Lab’s portal as a way to inspire others to do the same. You may post anonymously to the public if you wish.
Step 4
Share your permanent email address and phone number with The Philanthropy Lab, for the sole purpose of the reminder mechanism, so we can remind you of your goal in 5 year increments for 20 years into the future.
Alumni Reflections
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Over 4,200+ course participants have written giving goals in a demonstration of leadership!
Tate Driver
- Fall
- 2024
My goal is to give 10% of my income to nonprofits and to use my own personal values to guide my choice of organizations and overall giving philosophy. I will take the tools that we learned in class to review the organization so that I can give unrestricted funds with faith that they will be used as needed.
sydney wright
- Fall
- 2024
I want to start actively donating to a philanthropy of my choosing, 2 years after graduation. I think that gives me enough time to get on my feet and figure out how to best allocate my money so that I am financially stable. I want to have a philanthropy for life. This is something I learned through one of the books that we read. I want to choose one philanthropy or one cause to donate to every year for the rest of my life.
Sutton Damiano
- Fall
- 2024
My giving goal is to support women and women run organizations that are fighting for our voice. I want to help women all around the world have a say over their bodies no matter what their choice may be. If the money and time I donate helps at least one woman to have autonomy over her own body then I will feel successful for the rest of my life.
SOPHIE SCHWARTZBERG
- Fall
- 2024
My giving goal is to serve my community in the nonprofit sector by supporting those that need it most, even if they feel they don’t deserve it.