Category: Social Innovation
Giving Back: Upstream team up to spruce up Downtown through student art
Noelle O’Connor and Tylyn Recore-Dagsaan are in every way a team – you’ll hear it in the way they finish each other’s sentences, laughingly keeping each other focused.
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United Way Upstream ‘People’s Choice’ winner helps student refugees
When she was a freshman at the University of North Florida, Julia Driscoll signed up for a mentoring program where she was assigned a high-school Iraqi refugee.
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Giving Back: Upstream coach teaches — and learns
Laura Crosby is using lessons learned through a field service project she completed with her own mentor at the Clinton School of Public Service to coach a student finalist in our Upstream competition.
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Giving Back: Upstream coach and finalist fly to new heights
When a classmate in Gary Brose’s Leadership Jacksonville class suggested he become a mentor and coach for a student who was participating in United Way of Northeast Florida’s Upstream initiative, it was a match made in aviation heaven.
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Winners selected at United Way’s second-annual Upstream Pitch Party
Three student teams each won $10,000 in grant money to jumpstart their ideas for social change at last Thursday’s second-annual Upstream Pitch Party.
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