Education par excellence: Developing personal competencies and character through philanthropy-based education

Marsha M. Huber and Shirine L. Mafi

Journal of Accounting Education, 2013, vol. 31, issue 3, 310-332

Abstract: This teaching note presents an innovation in accounting education called the Philanthropy Project.2The Philanthropy Project won the 2011 Howard Theall Innovation in Accounting Education award from the Canadian Academic Accounting Association (CAAA). This project also received an honorable mention from the American Accounting Association for the 2009 Bea Sanders/AICPA Innovation in Accounting Education Award.2 The Philanthropy Project emphasizes experiential learning and is designed to promote the learning of discipline-specific concepts while simultaneously addressing the social needs of the surrounding community. In the Philanthropy Project, students receive money to distribute to not-for-profit organizations (NFPs) based on a competitive proposal process they help to develop and administer. A distinguishing characteristic of this project is that it is not a simulation. Students make real decisions that have immediate consequences to certain groups of people in their own communities. They have to make difficult choices by allocating scarce resources to some agencies and saying “no” to other agencies, all with worthy causes.

Keywords: Service-learning; Philanthropy; Community engagement; AICPA personal competencies; Not-for-profit (NFP) accounting education (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2013
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DOI: 10.1016/j.jaccedu.2013.07.001

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