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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.

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.

Giving for every season

World Hunger Day Activities

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

Project Guides

Adopt a Food Shelf

Doing Good Together

Develop a habit of generosity by regularly donating to your local food pantry.

Educational

Map the Meal Gap

Feeding America

This visual tool can help provide an understanding of food insecurity and hunger in our local, state, and national communities.

Educational

Hunger and Malnutrition Toolkit

Learning to Give

This guide shares lessons, activities, and service project ideas to empower youth to take action and help those experiencing hunger and malnutrition.

Activities

Make Room for the Hungry

Doing Good Together

Help inspire an understanding of hunger with this activity guide, accompanied by questions and reading suggestions.

Project Guides

Service Sparks: Reduce Food Waste

Learning to Give

This giving project promotes awareness of food waste around the world and in local communities and encourages kids to pledge to reduce food waste in their families.

Discussion Guides

Fighting Hunger Family Activity Guide

Feeding America

Engage your family in creative activities to understand hunger and its impacts on people around the world with this downloadable resource guide.

Activities

Reflection Activity: Help the Hungry

Doing Good Together

Inspire kids to get involved with the issue of food insecurity with this reflection guide.

Games

FreeRice game

UN World Food Program

Build knowledge while helping provide food to communities around the world with this quiz game.

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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