Activity

Middle School

K-12TH 30 MIN

Love for Lahaina

After wildfires destroyed Lahaina in 2023, students use the Design Thinking Process to find meaningful ways to support the ongoing recovery.

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K-12TH 30–45 MIN

Colorful Kindness Postercards

Printable postcard templates for students to personalize and send as messages of encouragement, gratitude, or awareness to organizations in your community in need of connection.

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K-12TH 20-30 MIN

Rewards of Resilience

Students build a personal resilience toolkit and use their Time and Talent to share those tools with classmates who need them.

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K-12TH 20-30 MIN

Voracious Volunteers

Helping is hardwired in us — this activity guides students to find real volunteer opportunities and commit their most valuable resource: their Time.

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K-12TH 20-30 MIN

Pets Are Family, Too!

Millions of pets enter shelters every year — students discover how their Time and Talent can make a real difference beyond donations.

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K-12TH 45–60 MIN

Heart for Ukraine

Students empathize with families displaced by war and use their 3Ts to take real action for those still rebuilding their lives.

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K-12TH 20-30 MIN

Creating a Sustainable Tomorrow, TODAY!

Students use their Time and Talent to tackle a real environmental problem — and discover that young people have everything they need to make a difference.

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K-12TH 30-45 MIN

A Premature Problem (NICU)

Students discover what NICU families and medical teams really need — then design a meaningful way to show up for them.

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K-12TH 30-45 MIN

Kindness Matters

A simple activity challenging students to turn intentional kindness into a real campaign that changes their classroom, school, or neighborhood.

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K-12TH 5–10 MIN

What is Philanthropy?

A short video resource helping students understand what philanthropy means and how they can step into their own identities as philanthropists.

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K-12TH 10–15 MIN

What Are Your 3Ts Handout

A single-page visual overview of the 3Ts — Time, Talent, and Treasure — as the core giving framework at the heart of Project Heart.

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K-12TH 10-15 MIN

How to Find Your Project Heart Handout

A single-page visual overview and self-reflection handout that helps students identify the causes they care most about and how to help.

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Turn Project Heart lessons into real-world impact with the Illumination Fund

The Illumination Fund provides small grants (up to $500) to support student-led projects inspired by Project Heart. Classrooms can request support for materials, field trip transportation (paired with a service project), fundraiser matching, or collection drive matching—up to two grants per classroom each school year.

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