Reward graduates’ milestone achievements with gifts that will help them as they enter the next chapter of life. Try these suggestions:

• Help a college-bound student with a survival kit for dorm living. Fill a plastic shower caddy with useful items such as a USB flash drive, notebooks, a roll of quarters for laundry, flip-flop sandals and an alarm clock.
• Give a student entering college or grad school a gift certificate to the campus bookstore.
• Purchase gift cards to stores, malls or restaurants in the grad’s college town or other destination.
• Help graduates stay updated on current events with a subscription to a national newspaper or newsmagazine. Make sure they won’t already receive the paper for free through a school or career readership program.
• Prep a travel-bound adventurer with luggage, a guidebook and currency for the destination country. If they’re moving to a large city, buy a public transportation pass.
• Invest in a young person’s future by purchasing a savings bond. You can choose the denomination.
• Create a balloon bouquet of money: Roll up cash and insert it into balloons that match the graduate’s school colors.