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Alhambra High School
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Alhambra Neighborhood Association
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Alhambra Village Planning Committee
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Cactus District Meetings
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Canyon Corridor Neighborhood Alliance
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Centerline Business Alliance
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Cholla District Meetings
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DowntownMerchants Meeting
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East Catlin Court Neighborhood
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First Southern Baptist Church of Glendale
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Glendale Chamber of Commerce
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Glendale Citizens Transportation Oversight Commission
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Glendale City Council
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Glendale Elementary School District
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Glendale Family Bike Ride
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Glendale GAIN events
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Glendale General Plan Steering Committee
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Glendale Glitters
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Glendale Historic Preservation Commission
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Glendale Neighborhood Commission
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Glendale Planning Commission
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Glendale Serve Day
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GlendaleWoman’s Club
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GOGlendale Open House
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Grand Canyon University
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Heart of Glendale
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Historic Glendale Christmas in July
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Kiwanis (Glendale)
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Maryvale Village Planning Committee
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Mayor’s Youth Advisory Council
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NEIGHBOR Alliance
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North Glen Square Neighborhood Association
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Ocotillo District Meetings
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Ocotillo Glen Neighborhood Association
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Orangewood Elementary PTA
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Our Lady of Perpetual Help Church
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Phoenix Citizens Transit Commission
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Phoenix City Council
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Phoenix GAIN events
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Rotary Club (Glendale)
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Rotary Club (GlendaleWest)
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Sahuaro District Meetings
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Touch-A-Truck event
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United Neighbors Association
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ValleyMetro Public Meetings (6)
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Washington Park Neighborhood Association
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West Phoenix Revitalization Community Advisory Board
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West Plaza Neighborhood Association
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Individual stakeholder meetings
Communi t y Highl ights
Examples of Previous Light Rail Public Outreach Activities
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When you look at schools across the country,
whether in affluent areas or inner cities, they
look very similar between 8 a.m. and 3 p.m. —
great teachers, great administrators and great
resources.
But what happens between 3 and 8 p.m.? That is
when you see a difference.
At schools in our neighborhood, you see many
hard-working adults and immigrants, many of
whom never finished high school themselves
as they entered the workforce early in life in
order to provide for their families. When their
children come home from school, there is often
no one at home who can help them with their
schoolwork.
The original mission of the GCU Learning
Lounge was to become that resource by
providing free academic assistance to high
school students from 3 to 8 p.m. weekdays. That
was the first step.
We saw that these students were willing to work
hard and pay it forward, so the next step was
to establish the Students Inspiring Students
scholarship fund, which provides full-tuition
scholarships to students who sought assistance
in the Lounge, excelled in the classroom and
exhibit the servant leadership to help future
students in the same way that they got help.
Our biggest motivation was to build
relationships between high school students and
our GCU learning advocates — or LEADs —
who have a desire to serve and support and have
a passion for Christ. What it boiled down to was
students coming to our campus to smile, build
confidence and courage, and share their stories.
We have hundreds of students who come
through our door every day and often spend
three hours a night. A lot of them come from
low socioeconomic status and are potential first-
generation college students with concerns and
innate fears of what college is.
Even though they might not see it, what I see in
these students is that they believe in themselves
— they just need someone to bring it out. These
students are going on to be engineers, doctors
and teachers. The impact that they make on the
next students is going to be remarkable because
their stories are powerful. Also see page 18,
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Learning Lounge enables students to
use a natural resource — other students
B Y J O E V E R E S , E X E C U T I V E D I R E C T O R , S T U D E N T D E V E L O P M E N T A N D O U T R E A C H
Hundreds of students
take advantage of the free
academic assistance in the
Learning Lounge every day.