| University | Semester | Year | Course | Department | Instructor(s) | Students Enrolled |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| UC Irvine | Winter | 2017 | Introduction to Civic and Community Engagement | University Studies | Gillian Hayes | 28 students |
| UC Irvine | Winter | 2018 | Introduction to Civic and Community Engagement | University Studies | Leah Ersoylu, Victoria Bredow, Jodi Quas | 16 students |
| UC Irvine | Winter | 2019 | Introduction to Civic and Community Engagement | University Studies | Victoria Bredow | 18 students |
| UC Irvine | Spring | 2020 | Philanthropy in the Community | University Studies | Victoria Bredow | 12 students |
| UC Irvine | Spring | 2022 | Philanthropy in the Community | University Studies | Sula X. Klementina | 13 students |
Philanthropy in the Community
Taught by Victoria Bredow
Department of University Studies
Victoria Lowerson Bredow, MPH, Ph.D. is currently the Director of Engaged Scholarship of the Community-based Research Initiative, which she co-founded in 2018, which is located at the Newkirk Center for Science and Society. She is also a lecturer in the Minor in Civic and Community Engagement at the University of California, Irvine and has taught Philanthropy in the Community for 3 years. Victoria’s PhD is in Planning, Policy and Design and she studies issues of community engagement and collaboration in public policy, planning, and research. Specifically, she looks at practices of inclusion and exclusion in pursuit of community building, democratic knowledge production, transformative systems, and social and environmental justice. She has conducted a long-term ethnographic research of a philanthropic driven community change initiative to understand how and why those most impacted by the initiative were included and excluded as well as the impacts of such inclusion and exclusion.
Reflection journals for assigned reading – 1 page memos
Each student required to do a 1 on 1 with professor sometime during week 2 – 6
“Hidden bias” assignment
- Students go to https://implicit.harvard.edu/implicit/ and take hidden bias test. Bring results to class, break into small groups and discuss.
Guest Speakers
- Matt Princetta, UCI Director of Development
- Faton Limani on “Aspirations vs. Ambitions”
- Regina Sharma, Chief Development Officer, Detroit Justice Center
- Suzy Patz, Love Out Loud, Creating a mass culture of philanthropy
Required to watch at least 2 guest speakers or videos – video option is the panel from AC
Each team has a “facilitator” and a “recorder”
Each team creates decision making matrix and logic models
Students write the accept/deny letters to orgs
Ambassadors Conference
- Gives extra credit to anyone who comes up with a recorded pitch for why they want to go to the Ambassadors Conference
Media
