Giving Compass' Take:

• Susanna Kelly, writing for Medium, describes the key traits of millennial philanthropists and their charitable giving habits. 

• How are millennial philanthropists different from the previous generation of donors? How will next-generation funders change the charitable giving landscape?

• Read about how millennials are changing philanthropy. 

It is doing your research, learning where your money, time, and energy is going before handing over that check.

It’s donating smaller, but consistent donations to several meaningful causes.

It is moving away from religious-affiliated charities that keep money to build a mega-church, rather than putting their money back into the community.

It is using social media to raise money for a cause instead of accepting birthday gifts.

Most of all it is dedicating your time to the cause through protests, rallies, and hands-on work.

I mentioned before Millennials are good at turning things into a trend. This happens most notably when a large single event happens. If there is a large hurricane or earthquake, we jump at the cause to donate and help, but when it comes to on going large scale problems, we tend to ignore it. We tend to ignore large-scale ongoing events and go into a frenzy over trending singular events.

Read the full article on millennial philanthropists by Susanna Kelly at Medium.