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B&B Charity vs. Social Justice/Start With Why
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- Benevolent goodwill toward or love of humanity
- Generosity and helpfulness especially toward the needy or suffering. Also, aid given to those in need
- Promoting a just society by challenging injustice and valuing diversity
- multi-dimensional social process that helps people gain control over their own lives
Learn your "Why:"
1. Gather your experiences and stories
2. Identify a common theme
3. Work with a partner to articulate your "Why"
4. Refine your "Why" and take action
Charity vs. Social Justice
Empowerment through service.
Charity (n):
What does "charity" mean to you?
1. Does the work undertaken empower the recipients?
2. Do those doing the work 'examine whether and how their work helps them address the root cause?
3. Does the work encourage those involved to understand that the shortcomings of the individuals served are not the only cause of the problems they are trying to address?
4. Are institutional operations organized in a fashion that supports and sustains the collaborative efforts of the donors, the workers and the recipients?
5. Does the collaboration build community, increase social capital and enhance diversity?
6. Do organizations operate in accord with social justice principles?
What does "social justice" mean to you?
Based on the article "Charity and Social Justice: What Do We Owe the Poor?"
Agenda
By: Marcus M. Martin, Timothy Bray and Julie Kibler
Social Justice (n):
- Defining charity and social justice
- Understanding the differences between acts of charity and acts of social justice
- Understanding empowerment
- Categorizing service
- Start With Why
- Understanding why "we do what we do"
- Living out your "Why"
"Start With Why"
Works of Social Justice
Works of Charity
By: Simon Sinek
- Public, collective actions
- Responses to long-term need
- Promoting social change in institutions
- Resolving structural injustice
- Being directed at the root causes of social injustices
- Private, individual acts
- Responses to immediate need
- Providing direct service (e.g. food, clothing, shelter)
- Requiring repeated actions
- Being directed at the effects of social injustice (i.e. the symptoms)
Why
How
Empower (n):
What
What does it mean to empower?
Martha Scott Johnson
"Start With Why" by Simon Sinek
0:00 to 6:00 15:15 to 18:00
In the context of Bike&Build, what is the importance of having a "why?"
University of South Carolina
What is Bike&Build's "Why" and how can we live it out this summer?"
"People don't buy what you do, they by how you do it...what you do serves as the proof for what you believe."
Simon Sinek
Defining Charity and Social Justice
Defining Characteristic
Empowerment
Categorizing Service
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Six questions to help clarify whether community service activities are simply acts of charity or whether they are aimed at creating social change.