{"id":3580,"date":"2023-11-27T09:00:29","date_gmt":"2023-11-27T14:00:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/mpnl\/?p=3580"},"modified":"2025-05-02T11:04:59","modified_gmt":"2025-05-02T15:04:59","slug":"sarah-thatcher-receives-jackson-family-scholarship","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/mpnl\/2023\/sarah-thatcher-receives-jackson-family-scholarship\/","title":{"rendered":"Sarah Thatcher Receives Jackson Family Scholarship"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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\n Sarah Thatcher Receives Jackson Family Scholarship\n <\/h1>\n \n \n <\/header>\n\n <\/div>\n\n <\/div>\n\n <\/div>\n<\/section>\n\n
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Sarah Thatcher and her family.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Sarah Thatcher is this year’s recipient of the Jackson Family Scholarship in Community Engagement.<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

“I applied for the Scholarship when I heard about it, because it fits with the work I’m doing,” Thatcher says. “I launched a charity in Muskoka called Food4Kids Muskoka<\/a>. We provide food packs on weekends for children facing food insecurity in our rural community.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Scholarship was founded by Ted Jackson and Magda Seydegart for students applying to the MPNL program<\/a> who demonstrate a strong potential for leadership and innovation in community engagement — and who conduct a project with a community partner.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

“I was a teacher for over 10 years and took a step out of the classroom after Covid \u2014 to shine a light on what’s happening to kids when they don’t eat and as a result, can’t learn, play and grow as they should,” Thatcher says.<\/p>\n\n\n

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“I’m super grateful to have some dedicated funds in pursuit of my studies. It gives me encouragement to continue with the Food4Kids<\/a> work. It’s not always easy to work in the charitable sector, so the encouragement is helpful.”<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n\n\n

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Sarah Thatcher speaks about Food4Kids work during a breakfast gala with 200 guests .<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

“I love the MPNL program,” she adds. “When I tell people I’m doing my Masters in philanthropy and nonprofit leadership, that sparks a whole bunch of questions. I come from the corporate world and from being a teacher, and this is new for me, but the MPNL program is incredible. We have amazing colleagues who have vast experience from different organizations across the country. I’ve learned a lot from them and from the educators, who are invested in giving us practical knowledge \u2014 to apply to the sector and to run a charity or nonprofit organization.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n

“I appreciate the generosity that people have offered to me, which, in turn, I’m able to offer to others,” Thatcher says of the Scholarship.<\/p>\n\n\n

Donate to the Jackson Family Scholarship to support future students.<\/a><\/div><\/div>\n\n\n

Sarah Thatcher is on LinkedIn<\/a>, Facebook<\/a> and Instagram<\/a>.
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Sarah Thatcher is this year’s recipient of the Jackson Family Scholarship in Community Engagement. “I applied for the Scholarship when I heard about it, because it fits with the work I’m doing,” Thatcher says. “I launched a charity in Muskoka called Food4Kids Muskoka. We provide food packs on weekends for children facing food insecurity in […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":3588,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[39,887],"tags":[675,47,46,48,49,51,50,52,53,54,175,191,58,59,981,60,62,61,63,64,65,66,67,630,68,980,222,69,70,982,71,74,73,75,76,77,72,78,82,83,84,17,81,85,86,87,88,89,90,91,92,931,18,93,95,94,19,97,96,787,979,98,99,100,101],"class_list":["post-3580","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-students-2023","tag-675","tag-academia","tag-academic","tag-canada","tag-carleton","tag-charitable","tag-charities","tag-charity","tag-civic","tag-civil-society","tag-data","tag-dpnl","tag-endowment","tag-federal","tag-food4kids","tag-foundation","tag-fund-raising","tag-fundraising","tag-giving","tag-global","tag-government","tag-graduate","tag-international","tag-jackson-family-scholarship","tag-leadership","tag-magda-seydegart","tag-master-of-philanthropy-and-nonprofit-leadership","tag-masters","tag-mpnl","tag-muskoka","tag-ngo","tag-non-governmental","tag-non-profit","tag-nonprofit","tag-nonprofits","tag-not-for-profit","tag-npo","tag-organization","tag-panl","tag-perspectives","tag-philanthropic","tag-philanthropy","tag-pnl","tag-policy","tag-politics","tag-program","tag-public","tag-regulation","tag-report","tag-research","tag-resources","tag-sarah-thatcher","tag-school-of-public-policy-and-administration","tag-sector","tag-social-impact","tag-society","tag-sppa","tag-studies","tag-study","tag-technology","tag-ted-jackson","tag-univ","tag-university","tag-voluntary","tag-world"],"acf":{"cu_post_thumbnail":"blueprint"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/mpnl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3580","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/mpnl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/mpnl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/mpnl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/mpnl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3580"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/mpnl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3580\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3599,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/mpnl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3580\/revisions\/3599"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/mpnl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3588"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/mpnl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3580"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/mpnl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3580"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/mpnl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3580"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}