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Help Send Your Grandkids To College


How Open Innovation Could Help Fund Your grandchild’s Future

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(Editor’s note:  We think this is a cool idea for today’s computer savvy grandparents to explore ways to help put their grandkids through college.)

Education doesn’t come cheap and putting the children through college can be one of the biggest drains on a family’s finances. Help send your grandkids to college through new applications.

Like most forms of expenditure the costs are rising each year with some forecasters predict that tuition fees will double during the next decade.

But help could be at hand with a new online platform called Instagrad.

Instagrad makes it easy to invite friends and family members to contribute to your child’s higher education. Instead of them filling up their cupboards with yet more toys and games at Christmas and birthdays, they can make a donation via the crowdsource site.

Seeking Funds

On the site you set up a profile of your child …read more

 

Christine Crosby

About the author

Christine is the co-founder and editorial director for GRAND Magazine. She is the grandmother of five and great-grandmom (aka Grandmere) to one. She makes her home in St. Petersburg, Florida.

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