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...
NKU Mayerson Student Philanthropy Project gives grad student, Hosea House a garden
“Newport is a food desert,” says Monica Remmy, a graduate student in Northern Kentucky University’s Master of Public Administration program.
“It is a 30 minute walk from the low income neighborhoods in Newport to the closest large grocery chain that accepts both WIC and SNAP, and carries a regular stock of fresh produce.”
Remmy was determined to find a way to provide a resource...
