At the beginning of March 2020, Martha Allen and I met once at an Extra Table fundraiser and talked on the phone a couple of times about what type of healthy shelf-stable products a soup kitchen could use in its daily operation. Little did we know that in less than four weeks, we would be […]
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Each year, in March, Women’s History Month is celebrated. The purpose of Women’s History Month is to increase consciousness and knowledge of women’s history: to take one month of the year to remember the contributions of notable and ordinary women, in hopes that the day will soon come when it’s impossible to teach or learn
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Greetings friends, As we begin year two of the pandemic, the light at the end of the tunnel grows a little brighter. Positive signs are there, even as we’re still traumatized by the hardship and loss of the past year. Vaccines are more abundant by the week, and the number of reported infections in our
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Those of us at The Alliance recognize the stress brought about by the recent freezing weather. Areas around the state lost power, and the Jackson area continues to have water issues. Please know that you are in our thoughts, and we are hoping for a swift return to normalcy. Due to weather-related issues, The Alliance
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It’s not an understatement to describe the events of the past year as historic, and particularly for Black Americans. The nation elected its first Black vice president, a woman and a graduate of a historically Black university, and Georgia send its first Black senator to the Capitol. (Both of these realities were possible through the
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The Alliance Announces $600,000 Endowment Gift from The Maddox Foundation to Provide Training to State’s Nonprofits This Gift is Part of a Year-Long Endowment Challenge to Create $1.2 Million Endowment The Mississippi Alliance of Nonprofits and Philanthropy (The Alliance) announced a historic gift from the Hernando-based Maddox Foundation that aims to support and sustain the
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The United Way of East Mississippi and the Community Foundation of East Mississippi formed a new partnership with the Mississippi HUB Network for Volunteers & Nonprofits in March 2020. The East Mississippi Hub for Volunteers and Nonprofits serves as an advocate, facilitator, and connector for effective volunteerism in Clarke, Jasper, Kemper, Lauderdale, Neshoba, and Newton counties.
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The Charles L. Young Sr. Foundation was started by the late State Representative Charles L. Young, Sr. in 2001 in his hometown, Meridian, MS. He was the eldest son and second of three children of E. F. Young Jr. (July 1898-May 1950) and Velma Beal (November 1902–February 1987), both of whom were African American entrepreneurs
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Provided by the William Winter Institute for Racial Reconciliation Projects and Programs at the Jackson State University Margaret Walker Center University of Mississippi’s All In. All Year. events through the Center for Inclusion and Cross Cultural Engagement WLBT’s Remembering Freedom Summer of 1964 and Its Impact on Mississippi Mississippi Center for Investigative
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Greetings friends, As we hunker down during a winter storm that is impacting us all, we find ourselves continuing to be wrapped in a global pandemic as well as political, economic, and social unrest. I have been thinking quite a bit about how all this impacts us as a community of people and organizations focused
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