Students learn the importance of nonprofit work through Nonprofit Center of the Berkshires' Philanthropy in the Schools program - The Berkshire Edge

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Students learn the importance of nonprofit work through Nonprofit Center of the Berkshires' Philanthropy in the Schools program - The Berkshire Edge

Sheffield — When teaching artist Julie Haagenson asks young people what they know about philanthropy, it is usually very little. “They think it means you work for free, and they don’t think they know any philanthropists.” In fact, one in every four jobs in Berkshire County is provided by the nonprofit sector, she told the group of 14 eighth graders who had begun “Philanthropy in the Schools,” a program designed by the Nonprofit Center of the Ber…