Many families are looking for ways to come together (remotely, if not in person) with a purpose this year. One way to do it: involving your kids and grandkids in a year-end tradition of researching charities and then deciding which ones will receive your family s donations.
The Kuritzky charity Zoom meeting |
Credit: Courtesy of the Kuritzky family
Dick and Pat Johnston, of Wilmington, N.C., started a family tradition of giving six years ago. Back then, when they were in their early 70s, they opened a Fidelity donor-advised fund account so they could involve their eight grandchildren in charitable giving.