It’s a time for family and friends, fun and laughs, and most of all—giving. Yes, believe it or not, the winter holidays are within reach.

Keeping up with its annual tradition, Penn’s Center for High Impact Philanthropy (CHIP) has released its High Impact Year-End Giving Guide, equipped with nine specific, handpicked, and vetted “opportunities” for anyone in the world looking to be philanthropic.

“Whether you are writing a check at the end of the year or responding to a solicitation in March, our year-end guide is meant to provide good information and tools so that you can make sure your giving makes a difference whenever you do it,” says Katherina “Kat” Rosqueta, the Center’s founding executive director.

This year, the highlighted opportunities run the gamut. They suggest donating to certain programs that help mothers recover from drug dependence, combat neighborhood blight, and battle food insecurity. Some help those in ultra-poverty, others provide counseling for first-time mothers. They address the “summer slide” for low-income children, the heroin and painkiller epidemic, curbing newborn deaths in the developing world, and disaster relief. Some featured organizations include the Society for Education, Action, and Research in Community Health, the Pennsylvania Horticultural Society’s Philadelphia LandCare Program, Feeding America, Springboard Collaborative, and Nurse-Family Partnership.

“Since we’re working on this all year, our annual guide is a way to showcase just a little bit of the work we’re doing, in a way that we hope is really useful and timely for people,” Rosqueta says.

CHIP, with its multidisciplinary lens, is explicit about featuring not only a breadth of different issues or cause areas, but also offering a range of giving prospects for diverse donors.

“Whether you have $7 or $7,000, there are ways that your money can really make a difference,” Rosqueta explains. “When you look at the opportunities, we talk about how effective they are, and how you can specifically help. That’s information that can help any donor understand what his or her money will actually do.”

Rosqueta says this year’s guide—the Center’s fifth—is “stronger than ever before.

“We’ve learned over the years how to identify these opportunities; we’re just getting smarter,” she says, adding, “we’ve learned that it’s up to us to make sure that the guidance not only is informed by the best available information, but that it’s pack- aged in a way that makes it easy for people to use.”

One glance at the guide’s website and users will notice a new and improved interface—more than ever before.

“For folks who have used our year-end guide in the past, I think that they will find that this year’s guidance is much more accessible,” Rosqueta says. “And thanks to some of our funders and sponsors, we’ve been able to make it more accessible, more appealing, and in lots of different formats. What we’re trying to do is remove any barriers that people might have to actually using it.”

Besides suggesting programs and initiatives to donate to, the High Impact Year-End Giving Guide also provides guidelines for avoiding charity fraud, more resources for identifying other nonprofits to support, and tips to turn year-end giving into a year-round impact.

Rosqueta, who’s given the TEDx talk “Amplifying the Money You Give,” says CHIP developed the year-end guide simply because she and her team were asked to.

“Philanthropic and wealth advisers, even mainstream media, who had seen our work, had come to us and asked what advice we had for people at the end of the year,” Rosqueta says. “In a way, our advice at the end of the year is the same as our advice year-round, but we recognize that this is a particular time of year where people are paying attention.”

For the year-end guide, Rosqueta says the highlight is not on CHIP.

“We’re trying to instead shine the light on those organizations and programs that we’ve gotten to know,” she says. “It’s less, ‘Look at us,’ and more, ‘Look around the world and at communities around this country, there are great programs that are well-positioned to create important change.’ And as you’re sitting down to write your year-end gifts, here are things to consider. Our team has done the legwork.”

This year’s High Impact Year-End Giving Guide sponsors include, most notably, Fidelity Charitable, which will be repurposing the guide’s content for use by its donor-advised fund clients, and the Annie E. Casey Foundation.