Learners use words to communicate positively and build community. A service project involves writing positive messages on stones and placing them strategically to uplift and beautify.

Students have the opportunity to create a brief video as an application to award someone they admire $1,000 as a needed boost. This lesson guides discussion of why and how to take action for the good of someone in the community. A lesson in mini-grantmaking with a powerful impact on students and community. 

To produce paintings or drawings that represent their “Dream of Peace” and that are submitted to an art competition.

To help students see music as an art form that identifies social injustice, advocates for change, and proclaims hope on behalf of the forgotten.

Youth Activity: Participants create a collage depicting philanthropic traits and actions. This collage serves as a visual definition of philanthropy. See the handout for supplemental faith-based discussion questions.

“The future depends entirely on what each of us does every day.” ~Gloria Steinem

Students will research a food program and write an essay.

Students explore how charity and philanthropy address hunger and poverty.

Students experience empathy for people who are homeless by listening to a song and completing the “I Am’ poem assignment.

Students experience working and unemployment through a very simplified role play.

Students will learn about federal social service programs over time and SNAP, the food assistance program.