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Magnified Giving is an educational organization that teaches young people how to become philanthropic Visit our webpage www.magnifiedgiving.org to learn more.

Magnified Giving empowers young people by giving them the opportunity to decide where to best invest financial resources into the non-profit community. Working with Cincinnati-area high schools, we provide funds for students to use as they form student philanthropy boards. We offer training, guidance and support to the students and teachers as they identify community needs, analyze agencies and se

lect non-profits to receive grants. Our donors see their gifts magnified, as their donation touches the lives of dozens of young people before eventually affecting the lives of those served by the agencies.

08/28/2026

before Camp Give wrapped up, it hit the road.

This summer we packed up the full Camp Give experience and brought it straight to Brighton Center in Newport and UpSpring's Florence and Walnut Hills campuses, meeting students exactly where they already were. This is part of how Camp Give reaches at-risk youth and youth experiencing homelessness in our region, and this year, these campers showed up!

41 campers total. 8 local nonprofits got to meet the students who chose to invest in them, including Henry Hosea House, Rooms with Love, Art Equals, Benton Family Farm, Band in a Bus, The Barracks Project, Keep Cincinnati Beautiful, and Meals on Wheels. 132 volunteer hours logged. $11,135 awarded, all decided by the campers themselves.

You can tell these students were all in! Thank you to everyone involved in Camp Give 2026

08/25/2026

Camp Give 2026 is officially a wrap, and these two crews closed it out right!

Our 5th-7th and 8th-9th grade campers spent their weeks at Evendale Rec Center learning philanthropy from the ground up. Researching nonprofits, showing up for service projects, and then sitting down together to decide where real grant dollars should go.

31 campers total. Nonprofits like New Life Furniture Bank, Child Neurology Foundation, Mighty Meshaun, Tikkun Farm, Childhood Food Solutions, and Queen City Book Bank all got to meet the students who chose to invest in their work.

Zoom out, and this summer added up to something big. Five weeks of Camp Give across our region brought together 72 campers, 14 local nonprofits, 308 volunteer hours, and 19 grants totaling $13,927. Every dollar decided by kids!!

swipe through for a look at the 5th-7th and 8th-9th grade crews in action (more to come on our other camps!) 👇

08/21/2026

some people spend a lifetime showing up for young people. Roger Grein is one of them.

on September 20th, we're opening our doors to celebrate his 84th birthday and the release of his second book, The Journey of a Coach. stop by anytime between 1 and 4 to say happy birthday, grab some treats, and pick up a signed copy while he's here.

Sunday, September 20th | 1:00 to 4:00 PM
Magnified Giving, 9940 Reading Road, Cincinnati

come celebrate someone who's given a lot of kids a reason to believe in themselves. 🎂

08/19/2026

Picture a room full of students deciding which nonprofits deserve funding this year. They showed up with real questions, real budgets, and receipts.

That's the Youth Philanthropy Program in action, and this year it added up to something big: $247,120.48 granted to 191 nonprofits, decided by more than 5,000 students across 175 programs.

We just published the full list, every program and every nonprofit funded this year.

https://ow.ly/qN6y50ZBBUv

08/12/2026

Each year, our Fall Dinner brings together people who believe youth can change the world when they're trusted with the opportunity. This year's theme, Giving is for Everyone, reminds us that every person - regardless of age or ability - has something meaningful to contribute toward that change. As a Fall Dinner sponsor, you'll help celebrate the impact of rising philanthropists while demonstrating your own commitment to generosity, leadership, and community.

Interested in becoming a sponsor? Contact Noelle Schwartz, Director of Advancement, at [email protected].

08/06/2026

This is what happens when you hand a group of kids real money and trust them to decide where it goes 🩵

Camp Give recently wrapped up two weeks in Northern Kentucky, and NKY Tribune caught the whole story. We're so grateful they shared it.

32 campers partnered with Brighton Center (celebrating year seven together!) and UpSpring in Florence this summer. They logged 91.5 volunteer hours serving seven local nonprofits, places like Henry Hosea House, Rooms with Love, Art Equals, Benton Family Farm, The Barracks Project, and Band in a Bus.

Then came the part that matters most. Campers sat down together and decided, as a group, exactly how to divide $6,585 in grant funding among the organizations that moved them most.

Huge thanks to Horizon Community Foundation for fueling this work, and to Brighton Center and UpSpring for welcoming us in.

Read the full story here: https://ow.ly/EYQj50Zxe6t

08/03/2026

This week marks the start of Alison Kaufman's first official week as CEO of Magnified Giving, but in many ways, she's been part of the leadership behind this mission for years.

Alison joined our team nine years ago as Director of Programs, and most recently served as Vice President of Programs, helping shape the very programs that now reach 6,000+ young people annually. She knows this work inside and out, because she's helped build it, with a passion for youth empowerment that shows in everything she does.

Please join us in giving Alison a warm welcome to her new role. We are so excited for this next chapter, and can't wait to see where her leadership and vision take us!

07/31/2026

Today is Kelly Collison's last day as CEO of Magnified Giving, and we couldn't let it pass without pausing to say thank you. ❤️

More than eleven years ago, Kelly sat at a desk in the back of Founder Roger Grein's tax office and got to work turning his vision for youth to have first-hand opportunities to learn to be wise philanthropists into a reality.

Since then, she has helped grow Magnified Giving from 55 Youth Philanthropy Programs in 2015 to 175 in 2026, engaging over 6,000 young people a year and empowering youth to direct more than $2.3 million to community nonprofits. Her belief in young people and her dedication to giving them a real seat at the table has shaped everything this organization has become.

In her own words, Kelly shared this about the man who started it all:
"Roger, thank you for the faith and trust you placed in me when you asked me to become this organization's first Executive Director. Thank you for your friendship, your inspiration, and for building a vision and mission so beautiful that I could spend the third act of my career running with it. I will always be grateful."

Kelly, thank you for eleven incredible years of leadership, heart, and vision. We wish you a wonderful last day, and an even more wonderful next chapter. Please join us in celebrating and wishing Kelly the best in the comments!

07/29/2026

huge congrats to Shubhangi Srishti 🎉

Shubhangi is a Magnified Giving alumna and our 2025 Roger Grein Legacy Scholarship recipient, and she just added another honor to the list. AFP named her a 2026 National Philanthropy Day honoree for Outstanding Youth in Philanthropy, a nomination we were proud to submit.

She's the founder and Board President of TechElevate, where she's teaching free coding classes to students, helping seniors spot scams and stay safe online, and building free websites for nonprofits doing good work around Cincinnati.

This is what it looks like when a student finds their thing and keeps going. Shubhangi found hers, and she's using it to lift up everyone around her.

We'll be celebrating her at the National Philanthropy Day Reception on November 19th. So proud of you, Shubhangi!

07/24/2026

this one's worth sitting with! 💬

Youth Today has a piece out about something we think about a lot, "the gap between asking young people to participate and actually trusting them to shape outcomes."

Across schools, nonprofits, and youth programs everywhere, students get invited into the conversation. Advisory boards, surveys, feedback sessions. But when it comes to the actual decisions, budgets, policies, priorities, they're rarely in the room.

That gap isn't unique to any one organization. It's something all of us working with young people, still have room to close.

It's part of why grantmaking sits at the center of what we do. Handing students a real budget and a real decision is the difference between being heard and being trusted with the outcome.

Give the full article a read, link here!: https://ow.ly/G7KA50ZstaZ

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