PD3060: Doing Good Together
Student Philanthropy Studio
Instructors: Flavia Bastos, Robin Selzer
Description
The 鈥淒oing Good Together: Student Philanthropy Studio鈥 honors seminar is designed to give students hands-on experience in philanthropy by researching charities (美高梅官网 or 美高梅官网H-Affiliated organizations who receive support already via discretionary funds established by the 美高梅官网 Foundation), developing criteria for charitable giving, and ultimately distributing a portion of $20,000 fund to charities of their choice. Through this process, students will gain a deeper understanding of the impact of philanthropy and develop a philanthropical mindset.
The course will be a partnership between the 美高梅官网 Foundation, the Honors Program, CCPS, and DAAP. The Foundation will provide the funds to be dispersed. The use of the term 鈥渟tudio鈥 reflects creative ways of experiential learning, and it is borrowed from design and the arts to emphasize the process of developing and implementing an idea or concept. The course鈥檚 expected outcome is to unpack the philanthropical process for students, examining donors鈥 motivations and goals, establishing criteria for giving, exploring different approaches to philanthropy, and determining means of assessing impact. The goal of the seminar is to foster a new generation of philanthropic leaders for the university, community, and beyond.
- Explore philanthropy as a tool for social justice
- Explore your personal values as they align with philanthropy and the power of connecting with other people to do good聽
- Understand how you can have an impact on society through philanthropy聽
In the News
Dr. Fl谩via Bastos, a faculty for the course, was recently recognized by the 美高梅官网 Foundation with the Staff Award of Merit.聽
The聽美高梅官网 Service-Learning program, housed in the College of Cooperative Education and Professional Studies, is proud to announce the creation of a new service-learning award; the Roger Grein Award for Community Impact.聽
What Are We Reading?
This is the primary text for the course. In聽Giving Well: The Ethics of Philanthropy, an accomplished trio of editors bring together an international group of distinguished philosophers, social scientists, lawyers and practitioners to identify and address the most urgent moral questions arising today in the practice of philanthropy.聽
Giving Well: The Ethics of Philanthropy
Edited by Patricia Illingworth, Thomas Pogge, Leif Wenar