Opinion: Teenagers Have Become Impressive Fund Raisers

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May 12, 2008

Opinion: Teenagers Have Become Impressive Fund Raisers

High-school students are increasingly raising large amounts of money for causes and are showing incredible skill at it, writes columnist Nicholas Kristof in an opinion article for The New York Times.

Mr. Kristof calls these young people “piggy-bank philanthropists” and cites several examples. Ana Slavin and Nick Anderson, two high-school students in Massachusetts, raised $420,000 through their nationwide campaign Dollars for Darfur, an effort to give aid to people in the embattled region of Sudan. Rachel S. Rosenfeld, a student in Harrison, N.Y., raised $57,000 to build an elementary school in rural Cambodia when she was bedridden for a year.

Mr. Kristof agrees with Sen. Christopher Dodd, Democrat from Connecticut, that it should be mandatory for high-school students to complete 100 hours of community service. He also believes that colleges should encourage students to take a year off to devote themselves to public service, as Princeton University has done.

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Comments

This is miles-wide and inches-deep fundraising. Mr. Kristof wouldn’t know the difference, naturally, but you can see how he’s in the tank for another Democrat politician like Chris Dodd.

— Doug May 13, 07:09 AM #
I work for an organization that has instituted a Service Learning program throughout the schools in Northern Kentucky. By the end of the current school year we will have had more than 15,000 elementary school children participating in at least one Service Learning project. Their stories can be viewed on servicelearningnky.org. I invite any readers of this posting to support the program by going to childrninc.org to learn more. The point is that if we wait until these kids are in College to promote this…it will may be too late.

— steve suskin May 13, 07:59 AM #

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