New University of Montana Course Helps Fund Area Philanthropic Organizations

The University of Montana is one of 15 institutions in the nation selected to receive grants from the Sunshine Lady Foundation’s Learning by Giving Program, which will allow students to allocate $10,000 to area philanthropic organizations.

UM joins institutions such as Tufts, Cornell, Brandeis and Georgetown universities and the University of California, Berkeley, as participants in the program, whose benefactor is Doris Buffet, sister of Warren Buffet.

Students in a new UM School of Business Administration course – Individual and Corporate Philanthropy – will take part in a philanthropic experience through a project that involves developing a request for proposals, reviewing and evaluating those proposals, and making the funding allocations.

Full Story: http://news.umt.edu/2010/02/020410phil.aspx