September 2011
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eaglerockschool:
Our Asset Based Community Development delivery with our @publicallies Teaching Fellows in FF.
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June 2010
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March 2010
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Mission 3: Impact on our Fan Page →
Mission 3. Continuous Learning. The third mission (of four) is based on our value of Continuous Learning. The mission for our participants is to direct three conference goers to our Facebook Fan Page, and have them post what they’ve learned about their leadership practice while at the conference.
Both Jazzi Goode and Shanell Ransom have completed the 3rd Mission of our PA Values...
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February 2010
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January 2010
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MLK Day Reflection: Robbie Flick in Maryland
mlkdaypa:
I stand on a shaky ladder emblazoned in safety orange. A white paintbrush in my right hand drips viscous white globs down the side of a tired grey wall, the paint raining onto my bare toes and onward to the plastic covered floor below. I paint in long, lazy strokes while discussing politics and current events with another Public Ally, Gary Williams, who has mirrored my Tom...
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How Do You Serve? - MLK Jr. Day of Service
ashleypala:
“The ultimate test of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort and moments of convenience, but where he stands in moments of challenge and moments of controversy.” — Martin Luther King Jr.
I preface this description of our Public Allies Los Angeles MLK Jr. Service Day because I believe that the allies and myself were simultaneously inspired and challenged throughout the...
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Serve with PA Silicon Valley
The San Francisco Unified School District [SFUSD] has the largest achievement gap, by race, when compared to the seven largest school districts in California. SFUSD has had a racial achievement gap for over 30 years and it continues to widen. Public Allies is joining Marcus Bookstore on Martin Luther King Jr. Day to launch a city wide education initiative embracing the literary heritage of ...
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PA LA Service Day: MacArthur Park Winter Festival
thanks, ashleypala:
Hope everyone had an amazing holiday!
On December 21st, Public Allies Los Angeles attended their first service day of the program year. PALA partnered up with Los Angeles Housing Partnership to host their annual Winter Festival in MacArthur Park. Servicing over 3,000 community members in the area, the festival aimed to provide food and gifts to those who may not have the...
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Happiness cannot be found through great effort and willpower, but is already...
– Free and Easy - A Spontaneous Vajra Song
by Venerable Lama Gendun Rinpoche
(via dancondon)
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Great cities are made, not born. The “making of a city” is found in...
– Anne Marie Predovich, ED of Indianapolis Neighborhood Resource Center, the home of PA Indy. This is from her Dec 17 Indy Star op-ed, “Great Cities are home to Great Neighborhoods”
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December 2009
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2nd Years Best of 2009: "CD"
A select group of 2nd Year Allies from across the network chime in on their favorite CD’s from 2009.
Ashley Smith (LA): Anything Michael Jackson
Maria Robilotto (NY): Thievery Corporation’s The Richest Man in Babylon
Reggie Scruggs (ER): Q-Tip’s The Renaissance
Jack Stucker (DE): 91.3 FM WVUD (U of DE radio) ‘cause I can’t afford CD’s right now
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2nd Years Best of 2009: "Movie"
A select group of 2nd Year Allies from across the network chime in on their favorite movies from 2009.
Ashley Smith (LA): Push and Star Trek
Maria Robilotto (NY): In Bruges
Reggie Scruggs (ER): Hip Hop: Beyond Beats & Rhymes
Jack Stucker (DE): Star Trek
Shavonda Sisson (MKE): Law Abiding Citizen
Chime in. What was your favorite from 2009?
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2nd Years Best of 2009: "Book"
Ashley (LA): Sisters of the Yam: Black Women and Self Esteem by Bell Hooks
Maria (NY): If On a Winter's Night a Traveler by Italo Carvino
Reggie (ER): Encountering Life's Endings by Louis Silverstein
Shavonda (MKE): Precious by Sapphire
Jack (DE): Places in Between by Rory Stewart
What's your best book of 2009?
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You never really understand a person until you consider things from his point of...
– Harper Lee (thanks, kari-shma)
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