Foundation Stories
- September 19, 2023
- Fellowship
Growing up, my family had a close connection with one of the former executive directors of the American Heart Association in Colorado Springs. We volunteered our…
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- March 31, 2023
- Fellowship
Zoe Goodman’s Remote Work Adventure through Latin America When I hopped onto Zoom to chat with Zoe Goodman, Fellowship Class of 2013, she was wearing a…
- February 8, 2023
- Fellowship
Beginning the Journey I first came across the Mandela Washington Fellowship-Young African Leaders Initiative (YALI) on social media. Then I started hearing conversations about the YALI…
- January 27, 2023
- Fellowship
Colorado has always made a bigger impact on me than I felt I was making on it. As a child living in Illinois, my family would…
- January 3, 2023
- Fellowship
Helping others has always been a focal point in my home. Both of my parents are medical professionals, so their day-to-day lives revolve around what they…
- December 27, 2022
- Fellowship
When I think of mentorship, I think of a teacher-student relationship, almost in the Confucian sense: An older, wiser person takes a younger, naïve student under…
- December 12, 2022
- Regional Partnerships
After a year of strategic discussions, the Southeast Regional Council decided last December to allocate 50 percent of its annual funding towards organizations that support youth…