Posts by Ashley Thornton
We’re Exploring Questions that Matter to our Community – Join us for Scholar Day!
By Fred Hills Inquiry. Research. The ability to come up with questions and actively, rigorously pursue answers to those questions is at the heart of education. It is the key to life-long learning, to new inventions, to solving problems, and to improving the way we live and work together in our community and in our…
Read MoreA Sanger Heights Shout-Out
by Kristen Bulgrien I live in Sanger Heights, and I love it. I moved to Waco three years ago as a graduate student at Baylor, and was pretty clueless about where to find housing in this town. Thankfully I had a roommate-to-be who did some great legwork for us (literally, she was in Waco, driving…
Read MoreI Want To Be Involved In Prosper Waco, But How?
By Christina Helmick Recently, we’ve been getting asked how people can become involved in the Prosper Waco initiative if they can’t attend meetings or meetings aren’t their thing. That’s a good question. We tend to focus on the many meetings that occur within the Prosper Waco initiative, sometimes we don’t communicate clearly enough that there…
Read MoreFinancial Freedom: Dismantling Devastating Debt
(Note: This post is part of an on-going series on financial literacy. Two of the goals of Prosper Waco have to do with accumulating wealth: (1) Reduce the percentage of Waco-area households living without three months’ worth of savings if they were not able to work. (2) More than 50 percent of Waco households will…
Read MoreMy Ode to Waco ISD
By Deshauna Hollie Waco is home and the experience of living here is like no other. I am currently a student studying education, Curriculum and Instruction. I’ve been a student before, lots of times in fact. I love learning, I love the process of learning, and I also love sharing what I have learned. Yet…
Read MoreRed Cross: Around the World and Right Here in McLennan County
By Amy Grace March is Red Cross month! That time of year in which we—along with community leaders, partners and volunteers—recognize how the American Red Cross helps people down the street, across the country and around the world. As we wrap up the month, I wanted to share how the Red Cross is helping our…
Read MoreHigh School Drop-out? Think it will take too long to earn a college degree? New Program at MCC can help!
By Janet Phelps It can take years for a student to get a GED and finish college. Take, Patty*, for example, who started studying for her GED® in 2014 after dropping out of the 10th grade many years earlier because of a tough situation at home. Patty completed her GED® just eight months later but…
Read MoreHope Through Concrete
By David Saucedo My brother, Robert Saucedo, and I have always had a desire to impact today’s culture. Between us, we have been blessed to work on many exciting projects that we believe are having a significant positive influence on the public, private and non-profit sectors in the Waco area. We didn’t know it, but…
Read MoreGoing to college away from home
By Diego Loredo College isn’t easy, trust me I know. I’ve been in college for two years and will be heading into my junior year this fall. I know the struggles of going to college. However, lately I’ve been hearing about a lot of my friends going back to Waco after spending a semester or…
Read MoreInnovation – Why Waco? Why Now?
by John Fitch If you were to conduct a survey about great cities for technology innovation it is unlikely that Waco would even make the list. There actually is a list. Waco is not on it. One list to look at is the Streetwise Innovation Index . This index presents the top 50 cities for…
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