by apadmin | Jan 29, 2016 | Uncategorized
May 27th, 2014 On May 8, at Southside Baptist Church, the Blueprints College Access Initiative celebrated its fifth school year. During 2013-2014, 150 Blueprints mentors from ten colleges and universities worked with 697 students in nine high schools. Of the 289...
by apadmin | Jan 29, 2016 | Uncategorized
May 8th, 2014 We just finished our 2014 College Access Initiative Impact Report. Here it is: 2014 Blueprints Impact Report
by apadmin | Jan 29, 2016 | Uncategorized
April 21st, 2014 Alabama is the nation’s seventh poorest state. Nearly 900,000 Alabamians, including 300,000 children, live in poverty according to a new analysis released today by Alabama Possible, a statewide nonprofit organization that works to reduce systemic...
by apadmin | Jan 29, 2016 | Uncategorized
April 4th, 2014 We encourage our Birmingham-area faith partners to join Independent Presbyterian Church (IPC) in their upcoming series Thy Kingdom Come: A Faithful Response to Poverty. Starting off the series on Sunday, April 27th, Alabama Possible co-founder Dr....
by apadmin | Jan 29, 2016 | Uncategorized
March 27th, 2014 This afternoon David Mathews Center for Civic Life Executive Director Chris McCauley and I did a pre-conference workshop at the Gulf-South Summit on Service Learning and Community Engagement at our Cornerstone Member Auburn University. Our workshop,...
by apadmin | Jan 29, 2016 | Uncategorized
January 22nd, 2014 Thanks to SAIL (Summer Adventures in Learning), a partnership of ten area funders, 32 grants totaling more than $675,000 have been awarded to programs that provide summer learning opportunities for children. The nonprofit organizations receiving...
by apadmin | Jan 29, 2016 | Uncategorized
January 10th, 2014 Our Blueprints Program Coordinators Kevi Martin and Landon Taylor spent yesterday afternoon with two classes of sophomores at Wenonah High School here in Birmingham. We expanded our partnership with Birmingham City Schools through the Birmingham...
by apadmin | Jan 29, 2016 | Uncategorized
January 8th, 2014 Today marks the 50th anniversary of President Johnson’s declaration of “an unconditional War on Poverty.” “Many Americans live on the outskirts of hope–some because of their poverty, and some because of their color, and all too many because of both....
by apadmin | Jan 29, 2016 | Uncategorized
December 27th, 2013 Kevi Martin and I recently spent the day catching up with one of our Blueprints College Access Initiative All-Stars, Micah Green-Holloway. Micah was the 2013 Woodlawn High School valedictorian, and he earned a full academic scholarship toAP...
by apadmin | Jan 29, 2016 | Uncategorized
December 18th, 2013 New statistics from the U.S. Census Bureau find that the number of people living in poverty in the State of Alabama remained virtually unchanged last year, but according to a new analysis by Alabama Possible, the 2012 Small Area Income and Poverty...
