Deepening Our Understanding
Powerful, experiential opportunities designed to deepen our understanding of complex issues that exist in our local community.
What is an Immersive Learning Experience?
By participating in an immersive learning experience, community participants shift their way of looking at poverty to the lens of a fellow citizen struggling to improve their quality of life.
Our programs focus on educating groups about the realities of poverty in our community, facing those issues through a simulated experience and then debriefing as a group to share our perspectives with others.
Individual Benefits
Gain new perspective about our community, its most urgent areas of need, and the effective ways the nonprofit sector, including United Way, is helping
Develop deeper understanding and help initiate discussion of daily struggles for those living in challenging circumstances
Explore your own behavior to better create change through advocacy, giving, volunteering and generating conversations that can transform systems and lives
Corporate Benefits
Corporate Social Responsibility activity that can accommodate large and small groups for an experiential and meaningful connection to our community
Unique team-building experience, helping to develop empathy and understanding among participants
Incorporate as a part of your team’s diversity, equity and inclusion training
Unique community engagement opportunity
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45 minutes
Unlimited number of participants
Brief, simple experience to simulate budgeting with limited resources; quickly helps develop an understanding of issues surrounding poverty
Fee for simulation: $250 per session
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60 – 90 minutes
Unlimited number of participants
Deeper dive into real-life Central Indiana family scenarios and how United Way of Central Indiana can help; budgeting activity with tough choices to be made each month
Fee for simulation: $750 per session
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2.5 – 3 hours
55-80 participants
Simulate a low-income family struggling to make ends meet in a community; highly immersive and impactful
Fee for simulation: $1,500 per session