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Maxim Thorne taught Philanthropy in Action, a Yale seminar in the Spring of 2012, in which students gave away $100,000. The students were empowered to design their own evaluation criteria and make their own selections in awarding the funds. A companion website (http://philanthropyinaction.yale.edu) provides more information on the course, the grantees, and has video of conversations Thorne and the students had with notable philanthropists including Harry Belafonte, Julian Bond, Mimi Gardner Gates.
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