Graduate Courses

SOWK 714: Philanthropy, Public Policy, and Community Change

Description

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.

The learning experience will be enriched by in-class critical discussion as well as presentations from practitioners involved in public policy reform activities and by foundation representatives engaged in funding those efforts. Course materials include policy analysis and cases of contemporary American social change efforts, as well as research examining pertinent policies and practices governing the field of philanthropy.

SOWK 714: Philanthropy, Public Policy and Community Change Sample Syllabus