One class or workshop
Teach a 50-minute lesson
A complete fictional case, student worksheet, timed agenda and worked answers. Begin with an educator or authorized host.
Explore this route →Teach and learn · teaching draft 0.1
Put generosity on the syllabus.
Ready-to-adapt lessons, a sample seminar and club materials for studying charity as a system.
Choose a starting point
A university course
Develop a faculty-owned seminar
An eight-meeting outline maps the ten-chapter textbook. Start with a willing instructor and the institution’s own curriculum process.
Explore this route →A student-led group
Run a first meeting
Four beginner meetings, rotating roles, a draft constitution and a handover plan. Students check their own campus rules.
Explore this route →School enrichment
Adapt with an adult educator
A proposed ages 14–18 version uses paper and fictional examples. Teachers choose the fit, supervision and approval route.
Explore this route →Study the system. Question the framework.
Follow generosity through givers, signals, channels, work and outcomes. Ask what changed, what would have happened otherwise and whose voice can change the next decision. Describe relief, repair, prevention, structure and source without grading people or charities.
Charitology offers a particular systems lens within an existing field of philanthropy education. The university guide links existing teaching models to learn from. Our own framework and teaching proposals remain open to challenge.
Teaching drafts, not an adopted curriculum. These activities and timings have not been piloted. We claim no institutional approval, academic credit, recognized chapters or measured learning benefits. An instructor can adapt and critique the material without endorsing Charitology.
Use and adapt
Take an editable pack.
The Markdown files open in a text editor and can be copied into your institution’s teaching system. The complete pack includes facilitator answers. Charitology’s authored materials are CC BY 4.0: credit Charitology, link the source and identify changes. Cited third-party material keeps its own rights.
Complete draft teaching pack ↓Editable Markdown · teaching draft 0.1Teaching charity as a system: start here ↓Editable Markdown · teaching draft 0.1Facilitator guide: what changed? ↓Editable Markdown · teaching draft 0.1Student worksheet: what changed? ↓Editable Markdown · teaching draft 0.1Proposed eight-session university seminar ↓Editable Markdown · teaching draft 0.1Beginner club starter and editable templates ↓Editable Markdown · teaching draft 0.1Educator-adapted school pack: four beginner meetings ↓Editable Markdown · teaching draft 0.1
Version 0.1 · All cases and numerical results in the activity are invented. No donation, account, public post or disclosure of personal beliefs or finances is required.
Keep learning or organize the work.
Continue independently
The existing ten-unit self-study course has readings, explained questions and practice. Its completion record is nonaccredited. The complete textbook remains available to read and print.
Coordinate a teaching pilot
Adult organizers can manually use Charity OS Projects and tasks and Resources for a fictional planning example. These links open existing modules after sign-in and organization choice; they create no record. The teaching activity works fully on paper and asks for no learner accounts or records.