Charity and our children #CleverMembersUnite #spon

 

Thank you to Members Unite for sponsoring this post and sparking a creative discussion with children about the importance of giving. Visit MembersUnite.com for a simple, interactive, fun way to fund amazing projects every single month! 100% of your monthly contribution goes to the winning projects. I was selected for this opportunity by Clever Girls Collective.

We all want to raise children that are socially responsible.  I encourage my children to do volunteer work.  Especially my teenager.  But I have never really had the discussion about donating money to a charity.  My children probably thought it "just happened" -- like magic on Harry Potter. 

 Enter Members Unite.  For a small membership fee and just $5 a month, the kids and I can pick charitable projects.  Projects that we think deserve funding.  Week 1 we can make our picks.  Then each week after that during the month, the projects are narrowed and we can go back and vote for our favorite.  At the end of each month, we can see where our money is headed plus get to see the updates as that project is put into action.

I seized the opportunity and signed up as a member.  We sat down as a family and looked at the projects for this week.  We picked ratings up to five stars for each of nine projects.  My kids were drawn to the projects for Locks of Love and the one for sending packages to troops.  All of the projects offered up an opportunity for a discussion about how not everyone is as lucky as we are.  There were projects involving clean water, helping abuse victims, sending toys to kids in war torn countries, plus more.  Each one brought on a conversation about the project, the country it was in, the suffering around the world, plus more.  It was a great opportunity.  I look forward to continuing our talks all month.  Keeping up with what projects are making it through and which are not.  I am expecting a conversation about what happens to those projects that don't get picked.  How will those kids get toys when no one voted them through?  It will be a hard conversation but a necessary one.  A talk of reality and how we need to help where we can.  Something we can do is continue our membership with Members Unite.  Who knows...we might see those child cancer victims receive some new locks.  Or those in Ghana get clean water.  The results will be well worth that $5 a month fee.  The results will be rewarding to myself and my children as we helped those results happen.  

   

If you are new here, I feel I need to mention my children are 7, 11, and 17.  For younger kids, the conversation may be more basic.  But I still think the Members Unite program is unique and can offer up benefits to all families.  Think about offering up the monthly gift yourself and helping to bring charity to the next generation.
I was compensated for this post but all opinions are my own.
~Thanks for stopping by!~
~Angie~

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