To bring awareness to the importance of partnerships between nonprofit organizations, businesses, and government agencies and how they can work together.

The purpose of this lesson is to have students recognize the idea of an emerging democracy, analyze the struggles of the people, and decide on a way to help the people.

Students will investigate key local and national nonprofit organizations by researching their histories, services, and target populations.

Students learn about food choices as needs or wants. They read a book and discuss healthy choices. They discuss why is not always good to have everything you want. They discuss the foods we need to have healthy bodies and minds. Students create healthy food choice plates and share them to...

To continue the study of philanthropist John D. Rockefeller’s influence on American culture.

We learn how different groups coming together for the good of all established the Mayflower Compact. This brief agreement was the first document of its kind designed to bring a community together to focus on the common good. This may be a model for a group agreement written by the...

Young people will take turns, show respect for the work of others, and cooperatively build a project.

Students will learn the fundamental principles of parliamentary procedure and use the procedure to create a plan for a service project in the community.

An activity and picture book discussion illustrate the tendency for people to see differences as a reason to fight. As we see in political divisions, society can be torn apart by factions. Differences provide an opportunity to be curious about someone else. Factions may also have a...

This lesson introduces the definition of philanthropy. The children are given the opportunity to see that philanthropy is something in which they are capable of participating. The memory building game stimulates the children to choose many different ways of being philanthropic. The...