Example 1

Students4Giving, a philanthropic education initiative of Campus Compact, in collaboration with the Fidelity Charitable Gift Fund. Our goal is to provide active learning opportunities for students to engage in the philanthropic process. Through courses and some co-curricular programming, students at each participating campus conduct needs assessments, design Requests for Proposals, review applications from local nonprofits, and award up to $15,000 in grants each year. They also work to replenish the fund throughout the term. To date, fifteen colleges have been part of the program.

Example 2

I am excited to be working with our local United Way to set up an on-campus Philanthropy Corps that mirrors the local United Way Allocations process. We will be fundraising at campus events and the dollars raised will go into one pool for the students in the Corps to allocate. Local non-profits will be submitting proposals for projects that need funding and the students will allocate the dollars through a process they will develop in the Spring Semester. We're starting out the Corps with a retreat to discuss the connectedness of Leadership and Philanthropy.