{"id":2684,"date":"2013-04-22T17:14:22","date_gmt":"2013-04-22T17:14:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/newsletters.asucollegeoflaw.com\/ilp\/?p=2684"},"modified":"2014-10-08T23:37:33","modified_gmt":"2014-10-08T23:37:33","slug":"women-in-philanthropy-article-highlights-the-indian-legal-clinic-and-students","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/newsletters.asucollegeoflaw.com\/ilp\/2013\/04\/22\/women-in-philanthropy-article-highlights-the-indian-legal-clinic-and-students\/","title":{"rendered":"Women in Philanthropy Article highlights the Indian Legal Clinic and students"},"content":{"rendered":"

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These are just some of the expressions
\nof gratitude we heard March 28 at our Dollars at Work event at the beautiful
\nASU SkySong in Scottsdale. While we gathered together for lunch we had the
\nopportunity to hear from not just program directors but students whose academic
\ncareers were shaped by our investments.<\/p>\n

Over the past 10 years, Women & Philanthropy has awarded $2.6 million through 67 grants and we learned that the impact of that is being felt around the world \u2014 from Arizona\u2019s American Indian reservations to a village in Ghana, Africa, where children are breathing easier because we invested in new cooking technology.<\/p>\n

As our Co-chair Cindy Watts said in her welcome remarks, Women & Philanthropy
\nmembers are affecting peoples\u2019 lives: \u201cEvery penny has gone to an ASU
\nprogram; you all should be very proud of yourselves for that<\/strong>.\u201d<\/p>\n

It was inspiring to meet students who have benefitted from our scholarships, and
\nto speak with the program directors who care so deeply about their work.<\/p>\n

We tried something unique and broke into three groups, and each spent about 15 minutes hearing from participants. That way, Women & Philanthropy members could learn about programs in an \u201cup-close and personal\u201d way.<\/p>\n

Here is what grant recipients had to say:<\/strong><\/p>\n

The Motivated Engineering Transfer Students (METS)
\nProgram | 2011\u201312 | $100,000<\/strong><\/p>\n

Among
\nthe several students we met from the METS program was Lauren McBurnett, who at
\n19 is in graduate school studying civil engineering despite struggling with
\ndyslexia, and who told our members:\u00a0 \u201cWe really appreciate what
\nyou guys do for our program\u2026I know without this scholarship I would not be in
\ngraduate school.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n

And we met Erick Ponce, <\/strong>a civil engineering student from Guatemala who is
\nthe first in his family to graduate from college and the first to go to
\ngraduate school, who said:\u00a0 \u201cI\u2019m so happy and I\u2019m so grateful for
\nWomen & Philanthropy because if it wasn\u2019t for you guys I wouldn\u2019t be
\ngraduating.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n

METS provides community college transfer students with tutoring, mentoring,
\njob-skills training and social and emotional support to help them transition to
\na four-year university.<\/p>\n

We learned from Mary Anderson-Rowland that this juncture in a student\u2019s academic
\ncareer can be difficult. She likened a transfer student to a fish that has to
\nleap from one bowl, hang in the air, and then land successfully in another
\nbowl. Transfer students often don\u2019t know what resources are available at a
\nuniversity, they\u2019ve already taken the easiest classes at community college and
\nthey feel like freshmen all over again.<\/p>\n

GlobalResolve | 2007\u201308 | $50,000<\/strong><\/p>\n

When we awarded funding to GlobalResolve it had 28 students involved in projects.
\nToday, it has about 140 in eight countries.<\/p>\n

Henderson, its executive director, says our involvement was important to its success: \u201cThank you so much for the funding you gave us. It came very early in our founding and we have really made strides since then.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n

GlobalResolve is a social entrepreneurship program in which students and faculty work
\ntogether on projects that improve the lives of people around the world. The
\nproject we funded helped students develop clean alternatives to cooking fuel as
\nsmoky cooking fires cause so many illnesses, especially in women and children.<\/p>\n

Today students are working on projects from India to Peru. One student even developed a prototype light source powered by a chunk of coal, which is inexpensive and readily available to poor villagers.<\/p>\n

Indian Legal Clinic | 2004\u201305 | $20,000<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

Patty Ferguson-Bohnee and her students were articulate advocates for the clinic,
\nwhich champions Native American voting rights and legal training at ASU.<\/p>\n

Our funding was important because until last year the clinic received no state funding,
\nPatty said, and our grant helped establish its reputation: \u00a0\u201cWith
\nthe initial money we received from you we were able to ask for money from
\nothers, and because it was a success they were willing to donate.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n

Native American voting rights is still a pressing issue. Arizona\u2019s Native Americans
\nweren\u2019t allowed to vote until 1948 and even then the state added literacy
\nrestrictions that prevented many from voting until well into the 1970s. We
\nlearned from third-year student Lily Yan how the Arizona Native Vote Election
\nProtection Project works to remove those obstacles.<\/p>\n

We learned from third-year student Fernando Anzaldua how the clinic is making an
\nimpact locally and nationally. In Arizona, students from the clinic do legal
\nwork in tribal prosecutors\u2019 offices as well as in civil cases. Nationally,
\nstudents are involved in important cases like that brought by Gulf Coast tribes
\nin Louisiana who are suing BP for the 2010 oil spill that devastated their
\nfishing grounds.<\/p>\n

\u201cHow proud are you of what we\u2019ve done?\u201d Cindy asked after
\nspending time with these inspiring students and faculty. \u201cLet\u2019s be sure we keep
\nthat going!\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n

How do we keep that going?<\/strong><\/p>\n

Guest speaker Roz Abero, vice president and managing director of Affinity at the ASU
\nFoundation, said Women & Philanthropy is building a culture of
\nphilanthropy<\/strong> within our families and communities that will ensure our
\ncollective and individual impact endures.
\nAt the same time, ASU and the foundation are deeply committed to connecting people back tothe university where they can connect to their passions.\u00a0 \u201cThe
\ncool thing about ASU is \u2014 whatever you are passionate about, we\u2019re doing it.
\nAnd we\u2019re doing it well,\u201d Roz said.<\/strong><\/p>\n

One way to continue that impact is to help meet our goal of 100 percent
\nparticipation in the Women & Philanthropy New American University
\nScholarship Endowment. So far, 62 members have contributed $87,000.<\/p>\n

\u201cIf you haven\u2019t already invested in the scholarship \u2014 please do so. To those who have, we thank you,\u201d Roz said. \u201cHow could anyone not want to be a part of this kind of impact<\/strong>?\u201d<\/p>\n

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