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Kendelle Hung-Ino | Monday, October 10, 2022
Twenty-four students in Notre Dame’s Philanthropy and the Common Good course are picking several Michiana non-profit organizations to award grants. The course receives $50,000 to $70,000 each fall, and students act as a board of directors to research organizations to receive the funds. Philanthropy and the Common Good is offered in the fall semester by
Letter to the Editor | Monday, March 2, 2020
Notre Dame does much good for our community. And South Bend, a city that is 26% African American and 15% Hispanic, has a future being quietly crushed. South Bend has a lead poisoning epidemic that exceeds Flint, Michigan, by some metrics. The response by city, county and state has been poorly organized. We have thus
Alysa Guffey | Friday, December 6, 2019
Students in professor Jonathan Hannah’s “Philanthropy and Society” course announced in a short ceremony Thursday afternoon the five groups that would receive parts of an $83,000 grant the class received from the Philanthropy Lab. After a semester spent exploring local nonprofits and conducting board meetings, the students chose to split the funds among five organizations
Tom Naatz | Friday, November 22, 2019
Notre Dame fan and Boston-area native Zack Gosselin has raised thousands of dollars for charity over the course of his career. Through a series of charity events, Gosselin has fundraised for a variety of causes across New England. However, at 13 years old, Gosselin is not the average philanthropist. He recognizes he is on the
Tom Naatz | Tuesday, November 12, 2019
Among the many unique courses offered by Notre Dame, only one is accompanied by a grant worth tens of thousands of dollars to be awarded to nonprofits in the Michiana area. Notre Dame professor Jonathan Hannah is teaching “Philanthropy and Society” for the first year it is offered at the University. The funding, he said,
Erin Swope | Wednesday, April 3, 2019
Hair can often be a means of self-expression. However, sometimes no hairstyle at all can say more than even the most elaborate updo. The Bald and The Beautiful, one of the largest student-run philanthropy events on campus, gives students the opportunity to either shave their heads, donate eight inches of hair or buy hair extensions
Mariah Rush | Wednesday, February 6, 2019
People on campus may see men wearing less clothes than a normal South Bend February day would typically require and holding out Solo cups with a request for money Wednesday. If so, they should not be alarmed — it’s just Siegfried Hall’s signature event, Day of Man, in full force. As it is the 13th
Letter to the Editor | Wednesday, September 6, 2017
Capitalist philanthropy can be best described by the idea that what is lost through exploitation can be remedied by collecting excess funds from those who orchestrated the exploitation in the first place. For example, much of the surplus value extracted from workers in third world countries will go into the hands of the investors of
Jeremy Cappello Lee | Sunday, November 23, 2014
Jean Case, CEO of the Case Foundation, gave a lecture on the importance of measured risk-taking and failure in the philanthropy sector as part of the Boardroom Insights Lecture Series on Friday. Case, who is nationally recognized for her philanthropic work, also serves as an advisor on the National Geographic Society Board of Trustees and the