By Pam Truitt, Student Emergency Fund Initiative Manager When hardships befall parents, children feel the impact too. Fortunately (if there is anything good to say about this), the needs become visible to teachers, cafeteria workers, friends and others when they … Continue reading
Eighteen months ago, when Michele McLellan first talked with me about the possibility of bringing together independent community news publishers to talk about their work, I had no idea what to expect. Going into this year’s Block by Block Community … Continue reading
By Dr. Mike Oliver, Pastor, First Baptist Church of Williams – Jacksonville, Ala. Last Sunday evening a family walked into their new home for the first time. Ladies from our church were stationed in each room that they helped decorate. … Continue reading
At one point during last week’s Block by Block Community News Summit, I looked around the room at the laptops folks were using. It was a sea of Apples. And that’s appropriate. Apple was the computer for everybody else, the … Continue reading
This marks blog No. 30 for The Patterson Foundation’s (TPF) Collaborative Restructuring Initiative and a time for ‘spections’….intro and retro…. I arrived in the blogging world kicking and screaming, made all the more frightening by the expectation to produce a … Continue reading
While traveling through the Midwest section of our great nation, my mind kept noting all the FREEDOM. First, we exercised our freedom to choose the roads to travel, as we chose to drive through the country using secondary roads instead … Continue reading
By Angela Hartvigsen, Fine Arts Program Specialist/Project Manager- EdExploreSRQ.com, Sarasota County Schools There has been so much excitement swirling around the district over the launch of EdExploreSRQ.com! This website, intended to help teachers easily connect their students to powerful real-life … Continue reading
By Debra Jacobs, president and CEO of The Patterson Foundation Sustainability calls for things to remain where they are – in other words, stay the course. But as a foundation committed to championing innovation for increased impact, we prefer the … Continue reading