Inspiring Living with Mark Candelaria
Welcome to Inspiring Living with Mark Candelaria, hosted by architect, blogger, traveler, chef, father, husband, and founding partner of Candelaria Design Associates. Mark has designed timeless homes across the country for forty years, while hosting tours to Italy, Spain, and beyond. Throughout the course of his journey, Mark has met wonderful people who truly inspire him and this podcast is about them and the opportunities that are all around us to Inspire Living! While we talk about architecture and design on this podcast, Mark also introduces you to a wide gamut of guests and industries, and ventures into all sorts of topics that will teach you, motivate you and inspire living your best life.
Inspiring Living with Mark Candelaria
Elevating our Urban Youth with Dalila Gamper and Jazmine Hall
Today’s podcast episode features two fabulous ladies who help run local nonprofit, Elevate Phoenix: Dalila A. Gamper and Jazmine Hall. Dalila started as a teacher with Elevate back in 2009 and is now the Executive Director and Jazmine, who was actually one of Dalila's student's while in high school, has become the Development Director for Elevate Phoenix! Candelaria Design has been involved the past few years as a mentor and has attended and sponsored some events since being introduced to Elevate through our client, PGA Pro, Tom Lehman.
Targeting individual students, Elevate Phoenix provides curriculum and support to aid students at risk of dropping out of school, through meaningful mentorships, relationships, opportunities and experiences that shape students into the young adults we know they can be. Elevate employs a holistic approach to meet each child’s needs, which means full-time salaried teacher-mentors, year-round programming, cross-age mentoring and a long-term relational approach in four areas: accredited classes, mentoring, reading & literacy, and graduation and post-secondary plans. Elevate serves roughly 4500 students per year who achieve a 98% graduation rate with 100% of the students having post secondary plans.
Join us in growing their programs across the entire Phoenix Union High School District, consider joining as a mentor or guest speaker, or donate and receive an Arizona tax credit up to $400 for single filers and $800 for married/joint filers. Their mission and their success rate are absolutely amazing and we have been so grateful to see firsthand how together we can make a difference in these children's lives and in our community.
https://elevatephoenix.org/
elevatephoenix.org/the-arizona-tax-credit/
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