Avrell Stokes: How to Use Philanthropy for Good
Your Brand Amplified
Bleav + Anika Jackson
5.0 • 132 Ratings
🗓️ 28 October 2021
⏱️ 19 minutes
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Summary
Avrell Stokes, Co-Founder of Assemble and President of BeGreatTogether, sees an unprecedented opportunity to inspire movements and guide transformation by uplifting current community leaders within our neighborhoods and build future leaders by investing in our public K-12 schools. With a background in the healthcare arena, analyzing and implementing hospital policies to best serve patients within an intricately evolving health system, Stokes received his Master of Public Health degree from the University of Southern Mississippi in 2012. His passion for innovation and people led him to pursue a career in health information technology consulting and eventually led to a transition to the nonprofit sector to best impact the lives of youth and disinvested communities. In partnership with local community advocates in Kansas City, he has established a nonprofit that assigns resources and builds awareness to economic, social, and environmental factors impacting disinvested communities. Stokes also serves as a cross-state, nonprofit director for those facing mental health or behavioral health challenges.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to your brand amplified, the podcast where we interview marketers, publicists, and |
| 0:07.2 | brands to learn their stories, what makes them tick, and tips and tricks that make a difference. To find out more, point your |
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| 0:26.4 | Welcome to this speaks edition of your brand amplified |
| 0:29.6 | and I am so happy to be here today with April Stokes of Be Great Together. |
| 0:35.5 | Hey, April, how are you? |
| 0:37.1 | Hey, how's it going? |
| 0:38.0 | Thanks for having me on today. |
| 0:39.6 | Absolutely. |
| 0:41.0 | So we've known each other for a little bit. It's been about a year that we've been working on this project that you've taken now from concept to reality. So tell us about it. |
| 0:53.0 | Yeah, so, you know, our major platform is a symbol, a symbol that be great, but I always tell people kind of how we started out. It was about a couple of years ago. |
| 1:06.7 | CEO and president of Assembly, Courtney Woodruff, I've known him since elementary school. |
| 1:12.4 | And he just hit me up one day and was like hey man I got this idea for this tech platform but I really like for you to for you to join and really build out our philanthropic umbrella and how we can have an even deeper |
| 1:28.1 | impacting community. |
| 1:29.6 | So through my own personal life experiences from running programs in schools and |
| 1:36.4 | disinvested communities to even work that I do in the community myself. So I go out with the group |
| 1:43.7 | and we walk the most what would be considered |
| 1:46.3 | most violent zip codes. |
| 1:48.6 | And we just connect with people, build community |
| 1:51.4 | from the inside out. |
| 1:52.6 | And I've just seen how transformative |
| 1:55.0 | that type of interpersonal work can be |
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