Kids for Kids Fund
The Giving Square’s flagship program hands a group of 3rd to 5th graders $1,000 and asks them to decide which cause they most want to support. They debate, they decide, they give.
Kids take responsibility for granting $1,000.
3rd to 5th graders learn about their own giving personalities, what all children deserve, great local solutions, and then decide together how to give a real grant of $1,000.
They come away knowing that giving is something they can do today, that they too, are philanthropists.
Snapshot of
Kids for Kids Fund
Understand your own story
Explore the experience of others
Discover local solutions
Kids decide their grantee!
Impact
Since 2018, the Kids for Kids Fund (KFKF) has reached more than 5,000 children, who have given over $270,000 to local nonprofits that serve kids.
Results from the program, including student surveys, show that KFKF builds empathy, philanthropic skills, self-knowledge, a passion for helping, awareness of others’ needs, and stronger local nonprofits.
Students say it best.
“You learn that you can help anyone with your talents.”
“KFKF can help kids with things that others may not pay attention to.”
“KFKF is all about teaching kids to love to help.”
“Curriculum is important, standards are important, but becoming a good human is more important and what our children are doing and the skills that they’re developing because of [Kids for Kids Fund] is ten-fold better than anything else we could teach in the classroom.”
Courtney Ellis,
Principal of Horace Mann
Other Programs
Build awareness, develop empathy, learn the issue, act for real. Three programs take kids through that cycle from 2nd to 8th grade.
