For Public and Personal Responsibility
Philanthropy — Voluntary Service, Voluntary Association, Voluntary Giving
The Paul Ylvisaker Center for Personal and Public Responsibility is a forum on the campus of Bethany Lutheran College designed to promote volunteerism, philanthropy, and public service, values which were enunciated in an especially profound way by Paul Ylvisaker, an alumnus of Bethany College.
The center functions within the context of Bethany Lutheran College's uniqueness. Paul Ylvisaker was fully aware of the uniqueness of the institution in which he received his high school and junior college training, and which was a part of his family life for many years. In his later life, he readily acknowledged the contribution that those values gave to his later vision.
It is the specific goal of the Paul Ylvisaker Center to instill in the students of Bethany Lutheran College not only a commitment to the values described here, but also a practical involvement in the kind of community service and volunteerism envisioned by Paul Ylvisaker.
The Center equally wants to promote those values and commitments among the college's constituency, community leaders, and others in the larger community in which the college finds itself.
But inexorably, those who practice modern philanthropy and those who are affected by it have come to realize that this process of private considering and giving for the public interest is itself a matter of the public interest.
Inquiries about the Paul Ylvisaker Center may be directed to Daniel Mundahl.
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