• the listing of fifteen to twenty organizations in the community and/or the world (created in Lesson One)
• telephone books (Yellow Pages), local periodicals, Chamber of Commerce listings of local businesses/organizations (can be obtained by request from your local Chamber)
• construction paper, scissors, markers, misc. art supplies
• Interview Questions (Attachment One)
• Action Without Borders/Idealist.org web site, www.idealist.org

• The Importance of Employment in the Nonprofit Sector." (Attachment Two)

Anticipatory Set:

Begin the lesson by having the learners share the findings of their Interviews conducted in Lesson One (Attachment Four). From their Interview sheets, have them share whether or not their interviewees represented for-profit or nonprofit organizations. Tally the total in each category and have the learners draw some conclusions. Then ask those learners, who interviewed at least one person representing a nonprofit organization, whether or not they were surprised by anything they found. Also, ask them to compare what they learned from their interviewees with what they learned from their internet search in Lesson One So What Is It All About and What Does It Require?(Attachment Three). Remind the learners that during the previous class they identified fifteen to twenty local and national organizations (listed on the display board) and circled those that are nonprofits. Have the learners recall their investigation of a career opportunity in a nonprofit and tell them that they will now be taking a closer look at nonprofits and careers in their own community.

Day One

• Return the So What Is It All About and What Does It Require? (Attachment Three- Lesson One) assignment to the learners. Give them 15-20 minutes of this class period to begin to plan and prepare a creative visual of their findings for display. Ask the learners to be sure their visuals include all the information they were able to identify in their online career opportunity investigation and indicate that these visuals will be displayed in the classroom. (Teacher Note: Set a date by which they are to be completed and handed in for display.)
  
  
• After 15-20 minutes of ‘getting started,’ have the learners set aside their visual display planning and preparation, and revisit with them the list of nonprofits (circled) they previously identify and ask if any of them might be considered local nonprofits, or have ties to the local community. Review and reach a class consensus about which of the nonprofit organizations listed in Lesson One are or have ties to the local community.
  
  
• Assign the learners to groups of three and give each group a local telephone book with Yellow Pages (look under human and/or social services organizations), a local newspaper, and local Chamber of Commerce listing of member businesses and organizations. This listing of local organizations can easily be obtained by contacting the local Chamber of Commerce. Give each group 10 minutes to locate and identify additional local nonprofit organizations and add these to the list already on display from yesterday.
  
  
• From this revised list of local nonprofits have each of the groups decide on one of the local nonprofit organizations to contact and make arrangements with a spokesperson from the organization to conduct a phone or e-mail interview using Attachment One Interview Questions.
  
  
• Allow the learners time to carry out the interview, record the information, and orally present this information.
  
  
• If time permits and phones are accessible they may begin to make their calls or send e-mail interview questions, and/or continue their individual work on their visual display. Interviews can also be considered a homework-assignment.
  

Day Two (two or three days after the assigning the interview)

• Allow the groups 10-15 minutes to review their phone interviews and plan for a 4-5 minute oral presentation to summarize the interview.
  
  
• Have each of the groups present their interview findings to the rest of the class.
  
  
• Instruct the students that taking everything they have now learned about nonprofits into consideration, they are to write a one page persuasive response to this prompt, "The Importance of Employment in the Nonprofit Sector…." (Attachment Two). The essay should address the importance of being employed in the nonprofit sector: to the sector, the individual, and for the public good.
  
  
• At the conclusion of this unit and on the assigned due-date, have the learners display their visual of the career opportunity in a nonprofit, allowing time for a "walk about" to give learners an opportunity to observe each others displays.

 

• Action Without Borders/Idealist.org Web site, Web site, www.idealist.org
  
  
• Learning to Give, www.learningtogive.org