St. Louis Community College

While working at The Scholarship Foundation of St. Louis I wanted to do more within the organization. However, leadership roles require higher education, so I decided to go back to school to pursue my Master’s degree focusing on Nonprofit Leadership Management. I was first introduced to Orvin Kimbrough while working at The Scholarship Foundation. Orvin was a former recipient of the Foundation’s Interest-free Loan Program. When I worked at the Foundation, Orvin was a successful recipient, working…

Antonio French, an alderman of the 21st ward in the St. Louis City, opposes a bill that will increase the minimum wage. Due in part to the financial repercussions that he thinks the city will sustain if it is doing it alone. The City of St. Louis is proposing an increase in the minimum wage, from its current state of $7.65 to $11.00/hr., in incremental stages by 2018; by doing this they are going above the minimum wage that is set by the state and Federal Government. French believes that jobs…

C. “Chuck” Chalberg is a professional historian having taught college-level American history for many years, and has developed a number of living-history presentations including President Theodore Roosevelt and baseball legend Branch Rickey. When he is not writing for such publications as “Touchstone,” “The Weekly Standard,” “Chronicles,” “Gilbert!,” and “The New Oxford Review,” Chalberg performs at other summer chautauquas, colleges, and conferences across the country. www.historyonstage.com…

Highway Patrol’s Statistical Analysis Center, in 2014 there were 2,379 offenses of rape reported and 402 offenses of homicide. (Johnson, B., 2015) Homicide According to the The St. Louis Dispatch, the city of St. Louis experienced 159 murders in 2014, which was a major increase from 2013 homicide statistics for St. Louis. (Sableman, 2015) To combat this issue all Missouri police departments will begin utilizing a tactic called, focused deterrence or ‘pulling levers policing’. Focused…

I believe that everyone should go away for college if given the chance. College has been one of the best experiences I have ever had. Although, I am still in the same state I was born and raised in I am four hours from home. College has taught me numerous of things that I could not have learned from staying home and attending my community college. Moving four hours away from my family who has always sheltered, and given me everything I ever needed was intimidating. I came from a small private…

It is the end of summer in St. Louis, Missouri. Saturday August 9, 2014 to be exact. It was a normal hot summer weekend, unfortunately it appeared to be normal until that heated afternoon. My family and I were leaving Walmart after buying groceries for our home, then suddenly we heard police sirens from afar. Unfortunately we did not pay it any notice because it’s almost normal to hear police sirens in St. Louis during the summer. Suddenly, the sound of the sirens grew louder as they were…

“ A knowledge of history is extremely useful ; it lays before our eyes the great picture of the generations that have preceded us and in relating the events which passed their time it lays before us the precepts of the wise of all ages’’ Laura Clerc (Word Press.com ). Laura was a Deaf journalist and a Deaf Poet throughout her life she interacted with very important historical figures, her first book of poetry published was Idyls of Battle, and poems of the Rebellion. Laura C. Redden was born…

performance in order to ensure this return. MCCP Project Report Arch Grants seeks to increase the LGBT*QIA representation on its applicant teams. LGBT*QIA is an umbrella term used to refer to the overarching community, including individuals who identify as lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer, intersex, and/or asexual. Once Arch Grants attracts this more…

Attending college is about taking a huge variety of people, all unique in their own ways, and combining them based on a single passion: attending their dream school. At SIUE, I hope to add my leadership skills and determination to help others to the melting pot of students and faculty on campus next year. In recent years, the leader that was once hidden inside of me has come out, and I credit this to Max’s Miles Foundation. Max’s Miles is a non-profit organization that I helped to create, and…

INTRODUCTION On October 2, 2015, I had the opportunity to interview Mrs. Nancy Zito for a school project and learn about the extraordinary work that she and her team are accomplishing at Gardere Christian Community School. As an extension of this project, I would like to submit by request to observe the October 19, 2015 board meeting. This observation would be for my Nonprofit Management course at MPA@UNC, the online Masters of Public Administration (MPA) program at University of North Carolina-…