Nov 25/2016
Having returned from our site visits with our top candidates, the class had to make its final decision; which charity, or charities, would receive funding. The class began with several brief presentations from the students that had conducted the site visits; after which, the class began a long debate and discussion to determine which of the candidates would be selected. The entire class went through several stages of voting in order to condense the list. The first stage involved every student voting for their first and second choice. From there, we were able to work the list down to our top two choices. At this point, the deliberation began; as we had to decide how to distribute the funding, and whether or not both charities would receive a portion of the grant. At the end of the class it was decided that students would anonymously enter their ideal distribution of the funds into an excel spreadsheet, and we would take the mean of the spread in order to distribute the funds. Ironically, our final average ended up being a 50/50 split between the Hamilton Youth Poets (HYP) and Thrive Group. The class ended with a call to both organizations to inform them that they had been awarded $5000 each, and inviting them to our last class of the year.
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