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\n MPNL Student Receives “Simone Joyaux Memorial Award”\n <\/h1>\n \n <\/header>\n <\/div>\n\n <\/div>\n\n \n\n <\/div>\n<\/section>\n\n\n\n

Graduate student Mikayla Odut has received this year’s “Simone Joyaux Memorial Award,” which goes to an outstanding student who demonstrates volunteer leadership as a critical thinker, change-maker and bridge-builder.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Mikayla Odut<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

The Award was established by Dr. Sharilyn Hale<\/a> in honour of her mentor and friend Simone Joyaux, who had a passion for advanced learning, social justice and governance issues in the nonprofit sector.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

“I\u2019m extremely grateful for the support,” Odut says. “It means that I can take weekends off prioritizing my health and well-being, rather than trying to find freelance work to pay for educational expenses. The award gives me financial stability for at least two semesters, making sure I can put myself and my studies first.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Odut works as the administrative coordinator at St. Joseph\u2019s Parish, a diverse church and social-services centre. Her days are filled with donation record-keeping and philanthropic planning, supporting the centre\u2019s various programs, building and operational management, and she provides administrative support for the rest of the staff. Working towards change in a diverse, multi-generational environment is important, and makes her time at the parish extremely rewarding.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

“I enjoy the MPNL program, as I\u2019m stuck with a bunch of like-minded charity geeks who want to work to make the world a better place,” Odut explains. “Having the support of the cohort makes my studies easier knowing I can rely on others \u2014 even though we are all in different cities and countries.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Each year, the MPNL program distributes a number of scholarships and awards<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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For more information about awards, sign up for “PANL Perspectives,” MPNL\u2019s free newsletter.<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Graduate student Mikayla Odut has received this year’s “Simone Joyaux Memorial Award,” which goes to an outstanding student who demonstrates volunteer leadership as a critical thinker, change-maker and bridge-builder. The Award was established by Dr. Sharilyn Hale in honour of her mentor and friend Simone Joyaux, who had a passion for advanced learning, social justice […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":205,"featured_media":5894,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[1178,39],"tags":[1244,47,46,626,48,49,51,50,52,53,54,175,190,191,58,59,60,62,61,63,64,65,66,67,68,691,69,1242,1300,70,71,74,73,75,76,77,72,78,82,83,84,17,23,81,85,86,87,88,89,90,91,92,18,93,1190,1188,95,94,19,97,96,787,98,99,100,101],"class_list":["post-5892","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-awards","category-news","tag-1244","tag-academia","tag-academic","tag-award","tag-canada","tag-carleton","tag-charitable","tag-charities","tag-charity","tag-civic","tag-civil-society","tag-data","tag-diploma","tag-dpnl","tag-endowment","tag-federal","tag-foundation","tag-fund-raising","tag-fundraising","tag-giving","tag-global","tag-government","tag-graduate","tag-international","tag-leadership","tag-master","tag-masters","tag-masters-2","tag-mikayla-odut","tag-mpnl","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-philanthropy-and-nonprofit-leadership","tag-pnl","tag-policy","tag-politics","tag-program","tag-public","tag-regulation","tag-report","tag-research","tag-resources","tag-school-of-public-policy-and-administration","tag-sector","tag-sharilyn-hale","tag-simone-joyaux","tag-social-impact","tag-society","tag-sppa","tag-studies","tag-study","tag-technology","tag-univ","tag-university","tag-voluntary","tag-world"],"acf":{"cu_post_thumbnail":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/mpnl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5892","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\/205"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/mpnl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5892"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/mpnl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5892\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5959,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/mpnl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5892\/revisions\/5959"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/mpnl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5894"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/mpnl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5892"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/mpnl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5892"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/mpnl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5892"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}