We began our conversations about a joint collaboration between Compassion Coalition and Mohawk Valley Community College, Utica Campus, in spring 2017. At MVCC, 69% of the student population is eligible for Pell Grants. Pell eligibility is based on a household income of less than $30,000 per year. The entire team at MVCC were a dream… [Read More]
What is the Teacher Free Store at Compassion Coalition?
A conversation about Equipped to Teach with Rachel Daughtry, Director of Agency Relations. What is the Teacher Resource Center? The Teacher Resource Center (Equipped to Teach) was officially launched at our Lafayette Street warehouse on December 5, 2017 as a creative, innovative way to serve our local full-time, New York State certified school teachers that… [Read More]
Why entrepreneurs are needed in the nonprofit world
Why entrepreneurs are needed in the nonprofit world: A conversation with Mike Servello Sr., Compassion Coalition founder and CEO, and Rachel Daughtry, Director of Agency Relations. Rachel: Compassion Coalition has grown steadily and exponentially year after year since our inception, but it’s taken a lot of hard work on the part of our team. We… [Read More]
Compassion Coalition- Who’s In Charge There?
Rumor has it: A conversation about Your Bargain Grocer with Mike Servello Sr., Compassion Coalition founder and CEO Why is the food so cheap — is it all expired? No, it’s not all expired. We’re buying in massive amounts and we do not mark it up as much as a traditional grocery store, so… [Read More]
Stay In Your Lane To Create Lasting Change!
My entire professional career has been in the non profit world, and what has always amazed me is the duplication of services by a million different titles and names, yet when you narrow down exactly what these programs are doing in our communities, a lot of them are exactly the same at the root. Compassion… [Read More]
Hunger and Waste, What Can I Do About It? PART ONE:
I kicked off my professional career working in a victims crime unit of a police department on the West Coast. If you would have asked me all those years ago that maybe one day I would be working day in and day out to solve the issue of food accessibility and equality in a food… [Read More]
