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The PHiXAZ Nonprofits: Four Questions for Rebecca Thimsen of Arizona Helping Hands

Marilyn HawkesApril 11, 2022

Over the past two years, life has been trying in many ways. Some days the news is bleak and we tend to forget that there’s a lot of good in this world. There are many folks in the Valley who devote their time to nonprofit agencies, from animal rescues to homeless shelters. In this blog series on Valley nonprofits, we shed light on some of the people and organizations that are making a difference. ...

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Q&AArizona Nonprofits: Girl Scouts Arizona Cactus-Pine

Marilyn HawkesMarch 19, 2019

In 1998, when Ana Colombo’s daughter was in 2nd grade, she brought home a flyer from school about joining Girl Scouts.

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CultureArizona Nonprofits: Rancho Feliz’s Gil Gillenwater

Marilyn HawkesFebruary 5, 2019

At the end of 2019, the Dorrance Family Foundation of Scottsdale issued a $300,000 matching funds grant to Rancho Feliz Charitable Foundation, inc., a Scottsdale-based nonprofit that builds homes and provides food to the needy in Mexico. The grant will be used to build a new volunteer dormitory in Agua Prieta, Sonora, on the U.S./Mexico border because Rancho Feliz has outgrown its current facility. The new dormitory, “La Hacienda Feliz,” will house U.S. and Mexican volunteers together while they build homes, distribute food and care for children and seniors in the area’s slums, fostering cross-cultural service experiences.

CultureArizona Nonprofits: Subway Kids & Sports of Arizona

PMInternNovember 14, 2018

Alison Bailin Batz has volunteered with Subway Kids & Sports of Arizona since first starting her career at HMA Public Relations in 2004.

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CultureArizona Nonprofits: Southwest Behavioral & Health Services

PMInternNovember 9, 2018

When Morgan Travis graduated from Northern Arizona University in 2017 with a bachelor’s degree in psychology, she wanted to gain work experience in the field.

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CultureArizona Nonprofits: Sojourner Center Volunteer Carol Minchew

PMInternOctober 11, 2018

October marks Domestic Violence Awareness Month and to bring attention to this important issue, we caught up with Carol Minchew, a volunteer with Sojourner Center, a Phoenix-based domestic violence shelter founded in 1977. “Sojourner Center has been at the forefront of providing outstanding services to victims, their children, and recently, their pets, fleeing the trauma of both physical and verbal/mental abuse,” she says. Retired from a successful interior design career that spanned 40 years, Minchew is the mother of two grown children and four “amazing” grandchildren and has been married to her second husband, Weldon, for 48 years.