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Charitable Giving Through Donor-Advised Funds

When you make a charitable donation, how do you do it? Most people donate through “checkbook giving,” meaning that you decide how much to donate, select a charity, and send a payment. Often, this requires writing a check, processing a credit card, or even using electronic payment services like Venmo or PayPal.

3 tips to maximize your donations on #GivingTuesday

With the shopping frenzy of Black Friday and Cyber Monday, we now turn to #GivingTuesday which is a day of charitable giving. Started back in 2012, this important day has been growing by leaps and bounds. In 2014, non-profits raised $45 million and that figure grew to over $300 million in 2017!!! Now that is some great impact. However, if you consider that online sales from Cyber Monday topped $7.9 billion, we still have a long way to go to catch up. Imagine the positive change, if those numbers were reversed.

Runnymede proudly sponsors the March for Babies

Every newborn baby should enter this world healthy. The March of Dimes is dedicated to doing their best to make sure that happens. That's why Runnymede Capital Management proudly served as a corporate sponsor of March of Dimes' March for Babies.

Runnymede's Director of Research Chris Wang was honored to serve as the Chair for the Morris County walk for the 2nd consecutive year. The festivities took place at the County College of Morris in Randolph, NJ on April 29th. We walked with hundreds of other families in the community event to raised over $180,000. The Runnymede team raised $8,888!

Tips and tricks to teach your children about money

In 2004, the US Congress officially recognized April as National Financial Literacy Month as a way to improve knowledge and understanding of financial concepts such as budgeting, debt, saving and investing. These are crucial concepts to learn, however, there is very little formal financial education for our children. According to the Council for Economic Education, only a third of states require high school students to take a personal financial class in order to graduate. So it is no surprise that one in five 15-year-olds in the US lack basic financial literacy in 2017 according to the Program for International Student Assessment.

Tip of the week: Give to charity anytime of year

This week on Andy's Inspired Money podcast, he spoke with Wendy Steele on the power of generosity and giving. Wendy is the founder and creator of Impact 100 which brings transformational grants to communities across the United States and Australia. Since its inception, Impact 100 has given away more than $45 million to worthy nonprofits.

My 10th anniversary on Kiva

This morning I received an email in my inbox from Kiva that reminded me today marks my 10th anniversary since joining the incredible microfinancing online platform. To celebrate, I made my 2500th loan which went to the Sreyhach's Group in Cambodia. Sreyhach makes a living cultivating rice and she does extra works as a farmer to support her family. In her village there is no reliable access to safe, clean drinking water. Having a water filter at home will help Sreyhach safeguard the health of her family, save money on medical expenses and save time collecting fuel and boiling water. We are truly blessed living in the US and it is hard to imagine living in Cambodia where you are lucky to make $1/day. In addition, imagine a life where you have no clean water. I dream of a day that everyone around the world has access to clean water and at least their basic needs met.