Philanthropy, Public Policy, and Community Change
Prerequisites: Graduate Social Work; Or Advanced Standing Students or 5-Year Social Work Students.
This course examines the roles that philanthropy and foundations play in advancing, influencing, and preventing social and community change. It explores relationships between public policy and philanthropic giving. Patterns of giving, policy intervention strategies, structural issues, and programmatic opportunities and constraints will be illuminated.
Outcomes: Engage with individuals, groups, organizations, and communities to critically examine philanthropy, public policy, and social change and reflect on their own positionality within systems of power and funding; Assess the roles, impacts, and accountability of philanthropic foundations and public policies by applying research, theory, and critical analysis to social welfare systems and community change efforts; Intervene and evaluate strategies for philanthropy-driven and policy-informed social change by analyzing evidence, engaging community perspectives, and assessing outcomes of alternative funding and advocacy approaches.
This course examines the roles that philanthropy and foundations play in advancing, influencing, and preventing social and community change. It explores relationships between public policy and philanthropic giving. Patterns of giving, policy intervention strategies, structural issues, and programmatic opportunities and constraints will be illuminated.
Outcomes: Engage with individuals, groups, organizations, and communities to critically examine philanthropy, public policy, and social change and reflect on their own positionality within systems of power and funding; Assess the roles, impacts, and accountability of philanthropic foundations and public policies by applying research, theory, and critical analysis to social welfare systems and community change efforts; Intervene and evaluate strategies for philanthropy-driven and policy-informed social change by analyzing evidence, engaging community perspectives, and assessing outcomes of alternative funding and advocacy approaches.