PUBLIC ALLIES NEWS

  PUBLIC ALLIES, INC. Receives $7,579,000 in AmeriCorps Funding to Support Local Nonprofits & Emerging Leaders   [Milwaukee, Wisconsin] – Senator Tammy Baldwin today announced that Public Allies, Inc. has received $7,579,000 million in AmeriCorps funding from the Corporation for National and Community Service (CNCS), the federal agency responsible for AmeriCorps and other national service Read More

COVID-19 has had an immediate and dramatic impact on the economy, and especially on nonprofit organizations. Given Public Allies’ unique position as an intermediary working with hundreds of nonprofits in communities across the country, we are uniquely positioned to understand how this crisis has affected the nonprofit sector. While there are many other surveys around Read More

A little over a month ago Public Allies provided an update on COVID-19 and committed to, “taking our role as a learning and sharing community seriously during this time of crisis, finding ways to connect and hold space to gather in solidarity to support each other through this unsettling moment.” Since that time we have Read More

With so many of our Alumni carrying student loan debt, and a large portion enrolled in either the Public Service Loan Forgiveness program and / or Income-Driven Repayment plans, we wanted to make sure you had information on how the CARES Act impacts your loans. Please note that the following only applies to federal students Read More

A ray of light through the COVID-19 crisis has been the individual and collective actions undertaken to support communities across the country and the world. One example is Public Allies Los Angeles alum and current Program Manager, daNaE Tapia who, along with their family, has set up a mutual aid network on their block in Read More

COVID-19 has presented unique challenges to all nonprofits. Many are in a place that is completely unfamiliar and requiring new skills and approaches in order to continue operations and stay connected. To lend a hand, last week we provided Information on Federal Loan Support for Nonprofits. Since then, we’ve been reviewing a lot of surveys Read More

Public Allies has been closely monitoring the quickly-evolving legal developments in response to COVID-19 and thinking about how these new laws can assist nonprofits in the critical work that they do in community. Public Allies wants to make sure the nonprofit community is aware of a number of new loan programs under the federal Coronavirus Read More

Dear Public Allies Community, The news from the World Health Organization (WHO) and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) about the global public health threat of COVID-19, informally known as the coronavirus, is top of mind for us at Public Allies. There has been a lot of coverage about the virus, and we Read More

Public Allies and AARP are teaming up to launch the new Livable Communities Corps, which aims to help make communities more livable and inclusive so people of all ages can thrive. The Livable Communities Corps, funded with support from the Corporation for National & Community Service and AmeriCorps, will be implemented by Public Allies in five Read More

Elodie Baquerot Lavery joins as COO & Tonya Mantilla as VP of Growth Strategy and Development Public Allies, a 27 year-old, national service organization working in partnership with 24 communities across the country to create a more just and equitable society and the leadership to sustain it, has recently strengthened its own leadership team to Read More