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In this critical thinking activity, participants sort ideas and make observations about the difference between the nonprofit sector and the for-profit sector.
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Unit: Nonprofits in Our Community
Unit: Powerful Words Can Warm the Heart
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This lesson illustrates the value of art and artists to a community and shows that art is maintained through philanthropy.
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Unit: Souperservice Kids
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In this lesson, we explore where vegetables come from and how they are preserved for healthy eating.
Unit: Opening Our Hearts and Hands to Others (Tzedakah)
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3
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This lesson focuses on eight levels of tzedakah (charity) that were identified by a great Jewish thinker known as Rabbi Moses Maimonides. Students will investigate various ways to give charity and gain an appreciation of how people give of their time, talent or treasure. They will...
Unit: Project on Poverty and Homelessness at Sea Crest School
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6
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Students will learn about overpopulation and its connection to hunger.
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6
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Students will learn about the similarities and differences of the hunger situation in the two different classifications of countries: industrialized nations and developing nations.
Unit: Be the Change: Democracy
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In this lesson, we explore the importance of each person's right to vote and the injustice of limiting that power.
Unit: Deliver Gratitude Day
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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...
Unit: Philanthropy and Children Who Are Homeless
Grades:
6
7
8
The purpose of the lesson is to create an awareness of local agencies that provide services for needy people, teens, and families in the community. Students will also learn the motivations for giving and see how help is provided to the community through the four sectors of the economy. Students...
Unit: Hands On Philanthropy: A High School Course at Kentucky Country Day School
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11
12
To develop a basic understanding about the role of philanthropy in the history of the United States
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