Experiential philanthropy is a pedagogical strategy that blends academic learning with direct hands-on philanthropic experience by teaching students about social issues and nonprofit organizations and then allowing them to make decisions about how to award funding to nonprofits working to address the issues they learn abou
Experimental philanthropy is a type of learning method that combines theory with a practical and hands on experience in the area of philanthropy
However, research on experiential philanthropy’s short-term efficacy suggests that discipline-specific considerations are likely to impact how efficacious the pedagogy is for certain populations of students.
The results of this investigation revealed significant decreases in long-term scores were present only in our RUN sample
This is significant because it shows that a specific school had a different outcome. This can now open the question and research to know if this is a general conclusion or if it is just for a specific program.
In terms of each of the individual survey items, taking an experiential philanthropy course, on average, significantly increased a RUN student’s scores on awareness of social needs (awneeds) and awareness of nonprofit organizations (awnpo) by 9.82 and 14.38 scale points, respectively
This is significant because it shows that this type of learning does have a benefit on the outcome of a student.
We conclude the article by considering how our findings might best be interrupted for those teaching philanthropy-related courses and content in public affairs programs
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indicate that experiential philanthropy does not result in positive long-term effects on any of our outcome variables.
This is significant because it shows the outcome of the data that was being studied. It is also significant because it shows that this can impact the future of experiential philanthropy