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In this activity, participants explore how to have productive board meetings using feedback in the form of process comments.
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In this activity, participants learn about the concept of group consensus; what it means, how to facilitate this type of decision-making, and what it feels like to experience consensus building around community issues.
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Youth Workers
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Participants will survey members of the community (school or local area) to determine a need, write proposals to satisfy the need, consider doing an optional one-day fundraiser to help fill that need, serve on a board of directors or a youth advisory...
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Young people define philanthropy and brainstorm how their time, talent, and treasure can be used to address needs in their school, neighborhood, and larger community. They investigate nonprofit organizations.
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Language Arts
Philanthropy
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Learners gain awareness of the attributes of justice, equity, and anti-racism in a civil society as they search for examples in political cartoons. They create cartoons illustrating an aspect of civil society, and write a paragraph of explanation about their cartoon.
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Social Studies
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Learners research problems caused by a natural disaster and cite examples of help from different sectors provided in an effort to help those devastated populations. They participate in a collection campaign and learn about organizations to which they can contribute their philanthropy.
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Learners research a natural disaster and examples of aid to help the affected populations. They learn the roles of the four sectors in responding to the needs. They participate in a collection campaign or other service project and learn about...
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Central Asian (Khirghiz) Tale: The khan (leader) gives instructions on who is to follow him at his death. His white falcon lands on the shoulder of a poor shepherd, who turns out to be a wise and just leader. The shepherd chooses a wife by declaring a contest of riddles. Wisdom and kindness are not the province of the elite alone.
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Korean Tale: A young boy greedily demands stories from everyone he meets, stuffing them into a “story-bag” and never sharing them. When he grows up and is about to be married, a servant overhears the stories plotting to take revenge. Stories are gifts that are meant to be shared.