Giving Compass' Take:

• Anna Kate E. Cannon and Tyler T. Johnston at Harvard News highlight the struggles students encounter with philanthropy and starting their own nonprofits. 

• How can donors, organizations and philanthropies make it more accessible for our youth and students to give back? How can we support college-aged nonprofit founders?

• Here's an article on mentoring young adults in youth philanthropy. 

Michael K. Bervell ’19 was a freshman at Harvard when he set out to create a board of directors for his nonprofit, Hugs for — like so many other freshman, his efforts were challenged by the chronic busyness of the Harvard student.

“One of the biggest difficulties, of course, was people having time,” he says. “You know, this could be a full time job and we could hire a director. But we chose to keep it student-run because we want students to get the experience.”

To recruit for the project, he emailed 500 other freshmen in his class, received nearly 40 applications, and finally chose three, finalizing the makeup of the newly inaugurated Harvard-specific team. Even so, the selected board of four students never actually met in person.

Read the full article about student philanthropy by Anna Kate E. Cannon and Tyler T. Johnston at Harvard News