Giving Compass' Take:

• This article from Mashable highlights four tips to stick with your charitable and donating goals for 2020. 

• What motivates you to give? How can we integrate strategic philanthropy into such efforts?

• Here are five apps that can help with your giving. 

Well, hurrah, it’s 2020 now. Holiday lights are down, and a new decade is in. It’s the time of the year right after the most wonderful time of the year, the start of those sluggish winter months in which your February Self might question the sanity of your January Self for making your New Year’s resolutions SO ambitious.

For now, though, our well-meaning resolutions have the same amount of promise as our shiny new decade. If you resolved to donate more in 2020, turning the charitable fervor from your NYE naiveté into a year-long commitment starts now.

How, you ask? Ashley Post, a spokesperson for Charity Navigator, the nation’s largest evaluator of charities, has a few tips.

  1. Pick the right charities for you 
    It’s going to be easier to stick with your giving resolutions if you pick charities that you care about deeply, Post says: "You don’t have to feel bad if you don’t have one cause or passion, but you should take an honest inventory of what matters most to you."
  2. Be strategic in your giving 
    After you’ve identified where you want to give, Post says another way to stick through with your goals is to make sure your giving is something that actually makes a difference. For monetary donations, this can mean being strategic both in when and how you give.
  3. Make a budget 
    After picking a cause and an effective way to give, the hard(est) part comes in: really sticking to it.
  4. Get some accountability buddies 
    Another way to stay committed to your resolution is by getting friends involved.

Read the full article about sticking to your donating goals by Natasha Pinon at Mashable.