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To help students understand the challenges of feeding a family a healthy meal on a limited budget.
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This Mini-Course provides a background for teaching the Urban EdVenture course or for anyone introducing the concepts of philanthropy, leadership, and teambuilding to youth. Gain knowledge, skills, and approaches to provide youth with a basic understanding of philanthropy, nonprofit organizations, and the needs of their community.
Learn about philanthropic elements of ancient civilizations and religions. Explore the philanthropy of major social movements in the history of the United States.
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Students learn from examples of people who have experienced a struggle and used surrounding resources to make something better for themselves and the people around them. Examples of "servant leadership" are taken from the Our State of Generosity...
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To introduce students to Andrew Carnegie as one of the outstanding early philanthropists of the United States.
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This lesson focuses on the meaning and benefits of gratitude. A book about a gratitude jar challenges us to brainstorm things they are grateful for right now. For their service project, participants 'deliver gratitude' to others in the school community by saying "thank you" and...
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This lesson focuses on the meaning and benefits of gratitude. Teens research one aspect of gratitude in order to understand its relationship to health, happiness, or generosity. For their service project, they decide how they can 'deliver gratitude' to a deserving person or group. They will then...
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6
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Students research and compare statistics of the history of hunger and obesity around the world.
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Briefing Paper
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by Kim Borges
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The students will use their knowledge of philanthropy and poetic conventions to write original poetry about philanthropic giving.