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Children’s Book: Make the World a Better Place!

By Elizabeth Flikkema
A Learning to Give Publication

Join "Ant Phil" as she teaches children about giving time, talent, and treasure—about becoming a philanthropist. Forty-eight pages long, the book offers full-color illustrations, worksheet and activity pages, and a personal contract for children to sign when they are ready to commit to using their time, talent, and treasure for the common good.
Bulk Order & Other Information Available

$19.95 Learning to Give List Price
$17.00 Educator Price

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Children’s Poster: Make the World a Better Place!

Buy the Make The World A Better Place! poster for your child’s room or classroom! This is a great educational supplement to the book. This 9” x 24” poster will inspire youth to creatively share their time, talent, and treasure, allowing them to make the world a better place.

$7.99 per poster (plus shipping)

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Learning to Give Bank

This fun and attractive financial literacy tool encourages students to spend, save, donate and invest. A great compliment to Make the World a Better Place! children's book.

Size: 12½” x 5¼” x 3¼”

$14.99 Per Bank
$12.75 Bulk Order of 10 or More

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Giving Game Playing Cards

Pass on kindness while playing this internet-based game. To order cards you'll need to register (it's free!) on the Giving Game Web site. Also available customized.

Cards are the size of standard credit cards.

$5.00 for 5 cards (pay no shipping)

$10.00 for 10 cards (pay no shipping)
Sets of 30 range from $10.50 to $14.10

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Community Foundation Donor Development Tool

Explore the concepts of family philanthropy with children of donors. Learning to Give’s philanthropy curriculum and service-learning activities teach young people the importance of contributing their time, talent and treasure for the common good.
Included in the package are all the resources necessary to conduct a Workshop Series for children whose parents and grandparents are Community Foundation donors. This Series assists in building stronger relationships with donors and enhances donor services.

View the Donor Development Tool resource page for pricing, included materials and additional information.

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Civic Ideals and the Giving Society: Connecting Social Studies and Philanthropy for Grades 9-12

Civic Ideals and the Giving Society connects the social studies areas of government, history, geography and economics with the role of volunteerism and the nonprofit sector in a Grades 9-12 student textbook supplement and Teacher Guide.

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22” x 28” Poster: Passion, Courage and Conviction…Women Philanthropists

Audience: Educators, Librarians, Foundation Officers and Staff
From Jane Addams to Fatana Gailani of the Afghanistan Women Council, this attractive poster highlights a quotation and a thoughtful discussion question for each of nine women philanthropists.

$6.95

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Helping Parents Help Children Learn—Foundation Program Officer Version

Audience: Foundation Program Officers (Educational Grantmaking)
Studies show that parental caring and involvement in a child’s education is one of the single largest indicators of that child’s future success. Helping Parents Help Children Learn, Foundation Program Officer Version, sponsored by Learning to Give and the McGregor Fund, capsulizes the best programs that have come out of parental involvement research This version is written specifically for foundation program officers who interact with their community’s educators.
$13.00, 42 pages.

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Learning to Give: A Family Foundation Guidebook for Raising Kids Who Give, Share and Care

Audience: Family Foundation Members and Staff
An exciting new resource for family foundations, Learning to Give focuses on the critical questions… “How do we, who care about our communities and our culture, pass on to the next generation the ideas and values we cherish related to giving and serving—philanthropy?” and “How do our children learn to be giving and responsible citizens?” Suggested activities and helpful reflective questions are organized by age group.
$15.00; 76 pages.

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African American Perspectives Resource Binder

Audience: Educators (Administrators, Curriculum Directors, Teachers, School Librarians), Foundation Program Officers and others who work with youth
Teacher-created, standards-based classroom educational materials with African American perspective and content.

The resource binder includes a grade-level appropriate poster, and:

• Lesson Plans (grades K-5, 6-8 and 9-12 units),
• Philanthropy Profiles (short, briefing papers for educators on the concepts, people and organizations linked with African American and minority philanthropy),
• Quotations (over 100 inspirational quotations by people from Maya Angelou to Booker T. Washington—the “voices” of African American men and women), and,
• an Annotated Bibliography of Children’s Literature (selected for African American and philanthropic content).

Order this product from Central Michigan University’s Educational Materials Center at www.emc.cmich.edu/learningtogive or phone the Educational Materials Center at 1-800-214-8961.

22” x 28” Grades K-5 African American Poster “Famous Philanthropists, ‘Everyday’ Philanthropists, YOU As Philanthropist”

Audience: Educators (Administrators, Curriculum Directors, Teachers, School Librarians), Foundation Program Officers and others who work with youth.
Students learn about famous philanthropists like Harriet Tubman, Civil Rights advocates such as Rosa Parks and Martin Luther King, Jr., plus using their own time and talent to be an “everyday” philanthropist. Additional activity ideas for the teacher and worksheets for the students are printed on the reverse side.
$8.95 ea. + shipping

Order this product from Central Michigan University’s Educational Materials Center at www.emc.cmich.edu/learningtogive or phone the Educational Materials Center at 1-800-214-8961.

22” x 28” Grades 6-12 African American Poster “Passion, Courage & Conviction…African American Philanthropists”

Audience: Educators (Administrators, Curriculum Directors, Teachers, School Librarians), Foundation Program Officers and others who work with youth.
From Sojourner Truth to Jackie Joyner-Kersee, this attractive poster highlights a quotation and a thoughtful discussion question for each of the nine featured African American philanthropists.
$8.95 ea. + shipping

Order this product from Central Michigan University’s Educational Materials Center at www.emc.cmich.edu/learningtogive or phone the Educational Materials Center at 1-800-214-8961.