by apadmin | Jan 29, 2016 | Uncategorized
June 18th, 2014 Summer feeding sites are open all over Alabama to serve free meals to children under 18, without proof of need. Alabama Possible published a map and sortable database with feeding locations, meals served, dates open, and phone numbers on its webpage at...
by apadmin | Jan 29, 2016 | Uncategorized
June 13th, 2014 The final installment of our ‘Meet the Interns’ series features Ashley Batiste. Ashley comes to us as a Law & Policy intern from Alabama Possible Cornerstone Member The University of Alabama School of Law. Ashley is a native of Los Angeles and a...
by apadmin | Jan 29, 2016 | Uncategorized
June 13th, 2014 Next up in our ‘Meet the Interns’ series is Reeve Jacobus. Reeve is a senior philosophy major at AP Cornerstone Member Birmingham-Southern College. He is a native of Ridgeland, Mississippi and comes to us this summer as a Hess Fellow after serving as a...
by apadmin | Jan 29, 2016 | Uncategorized
June 12th, 2014 Our 2014 summer interns are settled in and hard at work. We got them to slow down long enough for a brief interview. First up in the series is Daniel Yarbrough. He graduated in May from Alabama Possible Cornerstone Member Samford University with a...
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...