Giving Compass' Take:

• TechCrunch interviews Tanya Van Court who, after being greatly affected by the recession, created an app that allows parents and their kids to replace gift-giving with goal-giving.

• How can parents utilize what Tanya went through and apply it to their own children? How can we inspire our youth to give back?

• Learn how to teach kids about climate change. 

When the bubble burst in the year 2000, Tanya Van Court lost over $1 million in stock and options over the course of a few minutes. Then and there she vowed to never let something like that happen to her children.

Five years later, her daughter Gabrielle was born. At the time, she was a VP of Digital Product Dev at ESPN. She then went on to work as SVP of Digital Products, Parenting & Preschool for Nickelodeon and, in 2013, moved to SVP of Marketing at Discovery Education, leading the charge to roll out digital textbooks nationwide.

Read the full article about teaching kids to save money and give back by Jordan Crook at TechCrunch