POST GRAD CHARITYGaetano Sacco

POST-GRAD LIFE CAN SOMETIMES SEEM AS IF YOU’RE LIVING IN LIMBO

If you’re not one of the 69.4 percent of lucky young adults aged 20-24 to be employed, making

ends meet can be seemingly impossible.

WHAT INHIBITS CHARITY FOR THOSE JUST OUT OF COLLEGE?

➤ Rent & bills

➤ Cost of groceries

➤ Car & insurance payments

➤ Student loan payments

➤ The cost of having a social life

IN FACT, THE AVERAGE COLLEGE GRADUATE WILL LEAVE THEIR COLLEGE

OR UNIVERSITY WITH A DEGREE OF THEIR EARNING, AS WELL AN MORE

THAN $30,000 IN STUDENT LOAN DEBTSo it’s no surprise that the resourceful post-grads of today are finding ways to solve their debt crisis

RECENT GRADUATES HAVE EVEN FIGURED OUT A WAY TO MAKE

THESE PAYMENTS MEANINGFUL AND

CHARITABLESo what are they?

SPONSORCHANGE➤ This organization aims to:

➤ help young adults surge some high-impact non-profit volunteer work into their resumes

➤ increase civic engagement

➤ decrease the student loan burden

➤ By creating a Change Agent profile, you can propose community service projects and ask for sponsorship

➤ Each hour of charitable work earns Change Agents somewhere between $10 and $20 and they go directly to your student loan payments so sponsors don’t have to worry about you actually spending it on a wild night out

ZEROBOUND➤ Utilizes a unique crowdfunding platform

➤ Goals are to connect volunteers with donors and create a community of charitable young adults

➤ By creating a profile, users are able to detail the volunteer projects they are involved with, as well as a financial goal for donations

➤ If their campaign is a success, the earnings of their crowdfunding campaign is applied directly towards their student loan debt.

TO LEARN MORE CHARITABLE WAYS TO

RELIEVE STUDENT DEBTVisit Gaetano Sacco’s philanthropy blog at

http://gaetanosacco.org