If you were given $10,000 to make a charitable gift, what would you fund?

Jason Franklin teaches charitable giving classes at New York University so that students might become better givers who can make a bigger impact. Since his classes get to actually give away $10,000, he says students become engaged as never before.

The Sunshine Lady Foundation provides funding for student grant-making through its Learning By Giving program, which promotes philanthropy at the undergraduate level. Doris Buffett, founder of The Sunshine Lady Foundation, Inc., and sister of investor and philanthropist Warren Buffett, spoke at the Family Philanthropy Conference in New York hosted by the Council on Foundations. Both she and Franklin emphasize the importance of teaching philanthropy through doing.

Franklin is the executive director of Bolder Giving, which promotes bolder giving: giving more (time, talent and treasure); giving more effectively; being more fulfilled as a giver; and encouraging the giving of others.

Kansas City area teens who are part of the Teen Giving Institute get to do their own hands-on charitable giving this April, as they too, get to donate $10,000 to the charity of their choice.

Learning charitable giving by doing; it’s a better way to give.