College students who participate in real-life philanthropy realize greater academic success

Kajsa Larson and Mark A. Neikirk
Northern Kentucky University
A crisis shelter for battered women. A nonprofit that provides wigs and makeup for breast cancer patients. An organization that helps parents of children addicted to heroin.
All three of these groups have benefited from $2,000 grants made by college students who participate in an unusual hands-on philanthropy program. The program – which...