In keeping with our goal to provide news from our AmeriCorps, today we hear from Thy, who is serving Maggie’s Place at The Michael House. “I came into a year of service without knowing what I was really getting into. I was a recent grad starting off in a new city and doing a…
Our news today comes from The Zechariah House in Ohio. The custom of celebrating the life of St. Patrick, a Catholic priest who spent many years preaching Christianity in Ireland where he used the small three leaf plant, the shamrock, to illustrate the doctrine of the Trinity has become a global tradition. For the…
Saturday marked the celebration of Prince Harry and Meghan Markle’s soon-to-be royal little one. The English Rose Tea Room in Carefree threw a baby shower and the gifts were for Maggie’s Place babies. Jo Gemmill, owner and Maggie’s Place friend, celebrates tea for all royal events. She is an English transplant after all. She brought…
It’s International Women’s Day. At Maggie’s Place, women are everywhere–the moms, the Corps members and a bunch of our babies. They are, indeed, an amazing group. In honoring them on this special day, we have some of their thoughts to share. Thanks to funding from a Dignity Health Community of Care grant, The ASU Morrison…
We love to share the experiences of our AmeriCorps and MissionCorps members in Arizona and Ohio. Today, we hear from Claire who lives with the moms at Arizona’s Magdalene House. Thank you, Claire, for sharing your experience with us. “With graduation quickly approaching, it came time to discern my next step. I began researching Catholic…
Tuesday is podcast day at Maggie’s Place. We joined Program Director Julie Carlberg, Volunteer Celeste Burton, AmeriCorps members Amy O’Neil and Pinky Guerrero to discuss volunteerism, a year of service and how rules without relationships equal rebellion. The conversation veered to experiencing poverty, human dignity and breaking the barriers of “us” and “them.” Haven’t heard…
AmeriCorps Member Amy shares her thoughts with us… “It would be amazing, but it’s not realistic.” That’s what I told myself when the idea of spending a year at Maggie’s Place came into the picture. After attending The University of Scranton, a Jesuit university, I spent a lot of time imagining myself in service, but…
Events are important at Maggie’s Place. We celebrate everything. We rejoice when a mom or baby hits a milestone. We are known to cry from time to time–first steps, answered prayers, new jobs and moving on. We also love events that bring our community together to celebrate what we do, how we do it and…
You see the photos of our beautiful babies and our smiling moms. You may even know the hard work that goes into all that our moms accomplish and how far they’ve come. At Maggie’s Place, we are beyond proud of all our mom’s next steps and fresh starts. But we are also proud of the…
Did you know that if all nonprofits were a country, they would have the sixteenth largest economy in the world? That, according to The National Council of Nonprofits, is based on the 878 billion dollars they pumped into the economy in 2012, the last time the council measured such things. It’s a surprising economic impact,…