Inspire Up Foundation

05/22/2017

Abby Marco describes her experience with creating the Inspire Up Foundation, as well as what she has learned throughout this semester in our HSSJ Capstone class...

05/03/2017

Check out our latest blog post: an interview with our 2017 grant recipients, Young Playwrights' Theatre and Latino Student Fund!

05/02/2017

https://inspireupfoundatio.wixsite.com/inspire-up/single-post/2017/04/28/Foundations-The-Enablers-of-Faux-Justice-Part-II-of-III

The Learning By Giving Foundation which supports the InspireUp Foundation created in our capstone seminar, explicitly states in their mission they wish to “dist...

05/01/2017

On April 26th, our class decided to grant the funding to Young Playwrites's Theater and to Latino Student Fund. YPF will use this funding to implement a class r...

04/26/2017

https://inspireupfoundatio.wixsite.com/inspire-up/single-post/2017/04/25/Foundations-The-Enablers-of-Faux-Justice-Part-II-of-III

Our class experiences in the creation and operation of the Inspire Up Foundation show that the intentional efforts to mitigate the challenges around elite inter...

04/26/2017

https://inspireupfoundatio.wixsite.com/inspire-up/single-post/2017/04/20/Applying-Knowledge-on-an-International-Level

Being born and raised in the Philippines has made my experience within the Human Services and Social Justice major especially meaningful. Throughout my life I h...

04/26/2017

https://inspireupfoundatio.wixsite.com/inspire-up/single-post/2017/04/17/Foundations-The-Enablers-of-Faux-Justice-Part-I-of-III

In the Capstone Seminar of the Human Services and Social Justice (HSSJ) program, students are given the opportunity to grant money through a class-run foundatio...

04/26/2017

https://inspireupfoundatio.wixsite.com/inspire-up/single-post/2017/04/13/RFP-Technicalities

When I joined the RFP group of the Inspire Up Foundation I was excited but worried. I thought we had to create a completely original RFP for potential grantees....

04/26/2017

https://inspireupfoundatio.wixsite.com/inspire-up/single-post/2017/04/10/Forming-the-Mission

A.P.J. Abdul Kalam once said, “To succeed in your mission, you must have single-minded devotion to your goal.” This quote resonated me as I was on the m...

04/26/2017

https://inspireupfoundatio.wixsite.com/inspire-up/single-post/2017/04/04/Creating-the-Evaluation-Rubric

When I signed up to be part of the Inspire Up evaluation committee, I had no idea the attention-to-detail that would be required. While our foundation has not s...

04/26/2017

https://inspireupfoundatio.wixsite.com/inspire-up/single-post/2017/03/31/Stratification-in-Education

It should be intent of the US education system for all students, despite their background, to have an equal opportunity to attain a higher education. However, i...

03/28/2017

If my Human Services and Social Justice major is any indication, I have long had a love for working directly with others and serving the community. Throughout m...