This year-long economics project helped first graders from a low-income area recognize and see themselves as participants in an economic world. Students studied their community to learn about the different types of work people do, goods and services, problems of scarcity, the necessity for rules and goals, the use of natural resources, the…

A 15-week semester graduate course in fund raising and philanthropy is described in this paper. After the course objectives are listed, the paper presents a course outline that contains five topical issues: the historical framework of charitable giving, the economics of philanthropy, benefactors, sources of philanthropic opportunity, and research…