by apadmin | Jan 29, 2016 | Uncategorized
June 27th, 2014 Many service-learning students, practitioners, and host agencies understand the subtle, albeit significant tensions that arise between students and host agencies. On June 24, Steve Mills, Associate Director of Florida State’s Center for...
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...
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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...
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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...
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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
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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,...