Passion to Serve Created Through an SAI Internship Program

Posted on September 4, 2014 by The SAI Team in SAI Blog, SAI Internship Program

Written by Rebecca Reed Flashback: It’s 9am on Tuesday, June 3, 2014. I nervously walk the few steps from my parent’s house to Strategic Applications International’s (SAI) office next door. It is the first day of my internship and I have anxiously done what I could to prepare myself to work with SAI for the […]

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The Legacy Project

By James E. Copple My parents weren’t wealthy and left little personal property. I have the wallet my father was carrying when he died – it had a five-dollar bill in it that I can’t bring myself to spend. Beyond that, there is nothing tangible. But in the precious intangibles, I have inherited a rich […]

Want to Make America Great Again? Better find a teacher!

By James E. Copple Forget slogans, politics and vitriol – if you really want to “make America great again,” just pull up a folding chair for a Utah elementary school production of “The Lion King.” It was the stereotypical gymnasium, and 11-year-old granddaughter Annicka was cast as both tree-frog and wildebeest for her Eagle Mountain […]

Find the “one,” and data points become seeds of hope

By James E. Copple As a policy guy working to change environment for the greatest good to the whole, the realities of numbers or data run deep when I see, first-hand, a child playing in the waste of a slum community; parents struggling to educate their child; a family mourning the loss of a child, […]

A Radical Thought on Marriage

By James E. Copple What am I missing here? Anyone seeking to be legally married should secure a license from the state, and I mean anyone. Once signed by the state, you are legally married. Marriage is a secular act, comparable to getting a license to operate a business; drive a car; or carry a […]

Goat People

By James E. Copple The Church is a relationship to something bigger and greater than an individual and a people, and that’s true across denominations and even for the un-churched. For me, it is a personal relationship with Jesus Christ, one that has taken me to the White House and 30 governor’s mansions. It has […]