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Charitable Investments Club


                                               By Raji Sriram
                Charitable Investments Club is a unique nonprofit organization. Its motto is,

                                           ‘investments for charity.’

    Charitable Investments Club is a unique              stocks kindled his interest. His dad started
    nonprofit organization. Its motto is,                him off on mock sites where one can learn
    ‘investments for charity.’  They take people’s       to trade through simulation. Seeing his
    donations and invest  them into the stock            growing interest dad started the youngster
    market and donate all the money to charity           with Stockpile, a digital brokerage. What
    organizations. What a novel and a noble              started off as a casual interest turned into
    idea! Barely a couple of years old, this             a serious venture for the ten-year-old Kavin
    organization has  been making significant            who started making decent profit out of
    donations to organizations like the North            his little investments. “I started making my
    Texas Food Bank and Stew Pot. But why is             own allowance money. Besides, I started
    this organization making our cover story?            feeling as an equal to my dad and uncle
                                                         who were quite seasoned investors”, says
    It all began when a young man named Kavin            Kavin smilingly. When Kavin turned 14
    Sampath and five  others,  Aksh, Rohan,              years old his dad handed him over the
    Rohan, Nikshit and Prabhav from Coppell              responsibility  of managing his  mother’s
    High, located in Coppell TX, came together           IRA fund! The young man had earned his
    to form an investment club to learn more             dad’s respect and trust by then. “Suddenly
    about investing in the stock market. They            I began to feel more responsible. I was not
    were barely 14 years old then! Kavin started         responsible for a small amount. This was
    teaching the rest of the boys as he was              serious cash. I learnt risk management and
    more experienced than the others. Kavin              matured quickly,” Kavin reminisces. By then
    started developing an interest in the Stock          he decided that his was going to be his full-
    market and its working when he was barely            time career. HE started learning more about
    10 years old. Overhearing a conversation             this subject by watching YouTube videos and
    between his dad and uncle on finances and

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