Return from Reading Week (Class 5)

Oct 21/2016

This class was spent learning more about the non-profit sector in general. The class had just returned from reading week, and many of us had spent part of the week meeting with a charity, social enterprise, foundation, or philanthropist for an assignment due that class. Several of us shared the target of our profile paper with the class, and we got some insight into the various charities within our local community. As a class, we were then divided into groups to create a fictitious charity (small and large), social enterprise, foundation, and philanthropist; modelled after the groups that we visited for our profile paper. Our goal was to create this organization, for lack of a better word, from the ground up and explain who they were, what they did, and how they were founded and funded. Then the groups informally presented to the class; as a way for us to provide more detailed examples of the challenges and opportunities that these organizations or philanthropists might face. This exercise was a great way to give the class a better understanding of the difficulties that various NFP organizations face; and help us to understand how they may overcome them.