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2. A Legacy of Giving’s 5-step process of philanthropy:
1. Learn
2. Internalize
3. Advocate
Presenter Script
Slide will build with each click
At the academic assembly, we took the first step in philanthropy. Who remembers what that is? (Learning)
Click 1. Learn bullet text displays.
Right, we learned about the social concerns of poverty and food insecurity.
What about the second step? Do you remember what that was? (Internalizing)
Click 2. Internalize bullet text displays.
You took some time to internalize what we learned by deciding if this is a worthy cause for our investment of time and talent.
Ask: What was your decision?
Now it’s time to take the third step. The third step is to become advocates. So let’s take a look at what that actually means.
Click 3. Advocate bullet text displays.
We are going to look at some advocates and discuss how you may advocate to create solutions and build awareness to help your community.
There is an exciting opportunity for you to get your voice heard in the community.
We will discuss these last two steps at the end of this presentation.
Click 4. Act and Reflect bullet text displays.
4. Act
5. Reflect 2

3. Help feed the 180,000 hungry people in
What is an advocate?
Help feed the 180,000 hungry people in
Travis county.
Join our food drive!
We’ve learned about the social concern we are addressing (poverty) and have internalized the problem. Now you are ready to advocate for a cause. Let’s brainstorm, “What is an advocate?”
After students offer a few suggestions, click again and the definition displays.
We’ll use the definition “An advocate is a person who adds his or her voice to help a cause.”
*Point out that this word can be used as a verb or a noun. Examples: She advocated to eliminate pollution from the factory. OR, He worked as an advocate for abandoned animals..
An advocate is a person who adds his or her voice to help a cause. 3

4. What are advocates like?
Click the slide and adjectives about advocates display. There are 8 adjectives.
Now I’m going to introduce you to some famous advocates from history and some who are still alive today. While I do, I’d like us to keep a list of some of the personality traits that you might use to describe each of these people. When we finish meeting these advocates, we’ll look at the list and see what qualities our advocates have in common. 4

5. Advocate: Roy Bedichek
Advocate for education for all children
Advocate for Barton Springs preservation
Advocate for preserving natural environments
Middle School TEK: Roy Bedichek
Roy Bedichek was an advocate for education for all children. He was born in Illinois but moved to Falls County, Texas at the age of six. He graduated from the University of Texas in He was a reporter, editor, teacher, and homesteader, and then joined the University of Texas staff in He became the second director of the University Inter-Scholastic League (UIL) in For twenty six years, Roy Bedichek helped shape League policies to provide education for every child, and as the executive secretary of the Organization Promoting Interest in Higher Education in Texas, he advocated for people to go to college. He was a master at using educational competition to shape the lives of many students.
Roy Bedichek also advocated for the preservation of Barton Springs. Roy Bedicheck, a naturalist, J. Frank Dobie, a folklorist, and Walter Prescott Webb, a historian, would gather on a flat rock near the diving board and talk about an infinite number of things. In 1994, a larger-than-lifesize bronze sculpture of three renowned Austin writers was installed under a pecan grove at the entrance to Barton Springs Pool. John Henry Faulk, Walter Bremond, and Skinny Pryor were known to drop in. A statue by Santa Fe artist Glenna Goodacre at the main entrance to Barton Springs honors these men. "I will fight to the last ditch for Barton Creek, Boggy Creek, cedar-covered limestone hills, blazing star and bluebonnets, golden- cheeked warblers and black-capped vireos... This love of your native land is basic." - Roy Bedicheck.
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6. Advocate: Lulu Belle Madison White
Advocate for civil rights and leader of Houston NAACP
Advocate for school desegregation
Her work led to the integration of The University of Texas at Austin in 1950
Middle School TEK
Lulu Belle Madison White was an African American woman who led the battle for civil rights for African Americans in Texas. Born in Elmo, Texas in 1907, Lulu and her family lived under the oppression of the Jim Crow laws that denied African Americans their equal rights. Lulu went to what was called a “colored school” and her books were the leftovers from the white schools. She did not get the same health care as her white peers, and she could not go to the same restaurants or swim in the same pools.
But Lulu’s parents valued education. Many African American children were pulled from school during harvest time to help out on the farms, Lulu Belle’s parents insisted that their daughter stay in school and study. Lulu Belle went on to graduate from Prairie View A&M University and became a leader in the Houston NAACP (National Association for the Advancement of Colored People).
 She advocated for African Americans to be treated equally to white citizens in Texas and for students of color to be able to attend the same schools as their white peers.
Because of Lulu Belle Madison White’s persistence and willingness to speak out, the University of Texas was desegregated in (See case called Sweatt v. Painter for details.)
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7. as perfect as anyone else, exactly as you are.”
Advocate: Ariana Grande
Advocate for anti-bullying
Founded Kids Who Care, a youth choir that raises money for children’s charities
Joined Broadway in South Africa, where she had the opportunity to give singing lessons and dance tutorials
Celebrity Advocate: Ariana Grande
This young woman is an example of someone who has used her talent—singing—to advocate for social concerns she cares about.
She advocates for anti-bulling. She sang out against bullying with pop singer Mika on the single, “Popular Song.”
She is an role model for young people because she is has taken a stand against bullying and champions the idea that we need to value who we are:
Ariana Grande advocates for children in other ways also. Some of her past charity work includes co-founding Kids Who Care, a youth choir that performs at fundraisers. Also, she was a member of Broadway in South Africa, where she had the opportunity to give singing lessons and dance tutorials.
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Extension Activity:
Have students research organizations who advocate for anti-bullying and write a short paper on what these organizations do.
“Be happy with being you. Love your flaws. Own your quirks. And know that you are just
as perfect as anyone else, exactly as you are.” 7

8. Advocate: Cameron Cohen
Advocate for pre-teens and teens who have cancer
Designed ‘iSketch’, a drawing program for the iPhone, at 11, and donated $20,000 of his earnings to help buy electronics and other entertainment items for pre-teens and teens to enjoy during their hospitalization
Developed another app, AnimalGrams at 13, and donates a portion of his earning from it to pediatric cancer research at UCLA
Student Advocate: Cameron Cohen
We’ve learned of historical figures and celebrities who advocated for a cause they believed in. But, we can all be advocates.
Cameron Cohen was 11-years old when he was stuck at home with a hip-to-toe brace following bone tumor surgery. Instead of playing video games or watching TV, Cameron spent his downtime learning to develop apps for the iPhone. He then used his skills to design ‘iSketch’, a drawing program available on the iPhone App Store.
Cameron donated $20,000 of his earnings to help buy electronic and entertainment items for other pre-teens and teens to enjoy during their hospitalization.
At 13, Cameron created another app for iPhones and iPads called AnimalGrams. Cameron donates a portion of his earning from this game to support pediatric cancer research at UCLA.
Extension Activity:
Have students do research to find other middle school advocates. 8

9. Advocate: Jane McCallum
Relentless advocate for women’s right to vote
Instrumental in enacting laws on school funding, prison reform, maternal/infant health care, and child labor
Health, women’s rights advocate: Jane McCallum
Originally from La Vernia, Texas, Jane McCallum settled in Austin with her husband and children. She grew interested in women’s suffrage and prohibition and by 1915 she held leadership roles in city and state suffrage associations. Jane organized rallies, wrote newspaper columns, made speeches, distributed literature, lobbied legislators, and directed campaigns for women’s right to vote.
During the 1920s Jane headed the Petticoat Lobby, a coalition of women’s groups pressing for laws to benefit women and children. Nearly all of their legislative agenda was enacted: school funding, prison reform, maternal/infant health care, restrictions on child labor, and stricter prohibition laws.
Ask: How can YOU use what you have learned about nutrition and healthy eating to advocate for others?
Optional Enrichment Activity:
Have students research Jane McCallum and report on how her efforts enabled her to help others. What methods did she use to advocate for legislation that provided aid to others?
How can you advocate for healthy eating in your community?
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10. Qualities of an Advocate
What traits do these advocates
have in common?
Do you have these traits?
Ask students to think about the advocates they have just learned of. What attributes do they have in common?
Brainstorm with the students to name these qualities. List them on a board if possible.
Ask if they feel they have any of these attributes. 10

11. A Legacy of Giving: Day of Service
As we learned in the assembly, A Legacy of Giving sponsors a drive each fall to provide coats and food to those in need in Central Texas. This video shows what the 2014 event was like. We need to decide if we, as a class, want to participate.
After viewing the video have a class discussion about participating in such an event. 11

12. What Are Your Skills? This slide builds with 3 clicks.
When developing your advocacy plan, think about your talents. How can you best use them in your effort?
Some students at one Legacy school were dancers. They taught classmates how to do a dance routine and held a flash mob at a shopping mall. When they finished, they had the attention of loads of shoppers. At that point, the student body president took the microphone and said, “Now that we have your attention, we want to tell you why poverty is unacceptable. We need your helping in collecting coats and cans for people in our neighborhood who are in need.”
These students used their skills to get attention of others and then speak out to inspire people to join their cause.
At another school, students challenged teachers to a sports match and invited their fellow students to cheer them on for an admission fee or food donation.
How exciting would it be to see your teachers and our students showing off their skills? Game on!
Many students used their talent as artists to create posters, flyers, etc. to promote their cause. 12

13. Two Big Questions?? What is our goal this semester?
How will we help meet this goal?
What is our goal this semester? How will we help meet that goal?
Use this slide as a way to get the class thinking about what kind of goal they will set for collecting canned food and coats. Also discuss some ideas of how to do so. This is just a warm-up activity to build some energy for the Advocacy plan they will write. 13

14. Student Advocacy Plan What are the three most important
facts you wish to communicate
as an advocate?
Will your class plan one large advocacy event or many smaller ones?
What are the key milestones you must reach to succeed?
How will you use technology to spread the word?
It’s time to create your Student Advocacy Plan.
*This can be done as a class or in small groups. Ask students to answer the questions on the slide in as much detail as possible. You may want to require them to organize their answers as a business plan, complete with charts and graphs to measure success along the way. Post these plans in the classroom and refer to them throughout the advocacy period to measure success. (For example, what is our collection goal as a class or school? You might ask, given our overall goal, how many cans do we need to collect ¼, ½, ¾, and all the way until the collection deadline? Can you graph that?)
Extension Activity:
Integrate with the math or computer science teacher to create graphs, charts and other utilities.
Present their plans to the class or in a school assembly. 14

15. Now you’re ready to advocate—or speak up for change
Now you’re ready to advocate—or speak up for change! Let’s see how we can work together to help people living in poverty in Central Texas.
At this point, you introduce the class to the process you’d like them to use to create their plan, implement it, and monitor progress toward their goals. 15

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