Millennials' Charity Drive: Passion

At age 22, fourth-grade teacher Jessica King is already a charity veteran.

The recent University of Pennsylvania graduate, with a degree in civic communications, started volunteering when she was 15, as a swimming teacher to special education students.

As an undergraduate, King and her friends mentored children in West Philadelphia through the Netter Center for Community Partnerships. She eventually became the student director of the mentoring program, overseeing about 300 mentors.

Her first full-time job is teaching children in a charter school in Camden, New Jersey, an area with similar challenges to West Philadelphia.

"Checks can be written and buttons can be pressed online, but giving a week's worth of food to someone that you packaged up yourself, that is a different kind of human connection," King said.