News About Our Founder

​MaryAnn Puglisi, the Founder, President and Chief Engagement Officer of All Out for Change®, passed away on April 15, 2025. 

MaryAnn started All Out for Change® in 2017 because she believed strongly that all youth, regardless of their economic circumstances, deserve a fair opportunity to pursue their dreams of degrees, professions, and upward mobility.

Throughout her time growing the organization, MaryAnn took great pride in supporting student recipients of AOFC® Supplemental Scholarship and Tuition Gap Opportunity Awards. She loved meeting students and hearing stories about their studies, accomplishments, and success in meeting academic challenges.

Our Board and team thank you for your many expressions of support and acknowledgement of MaryAnn’s lasting impact on the lives of the many students who will continue to benefit from her vision and generous spirit.

Many teens are on a challenging journey to achieve their dreams; through you, we can help.

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​All Out for Change® gives all of us a means to empower financially disadvantaged student scholars to pursue their aspirations.
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Our student scholars who lack financial means have the same aspirations as America’s wealthier youth: access to higher education, living wage jobs, economic independence.  All Out for Change® helps them achieve their potential. Our awards support partial scholarship recipients with Supplemental Scholarship funds to keep them in school and lessen crippling student loan debt. 

Higher education is a proven route to upward mobility and every youth deserves a chance to pursue their aspirations regardless of family wealth.

Due to limited financial resources (43% of US households can’t afford the basics), many students face barriers to achieving their goals: $100 text books for example, among other necessary expenses. Our Supplemental Scholarship funds make a difference by helping these goal-oriented students overcome roadblocks and achieve their dreams by awarding laptops for college and Supplemental Scholarships for essentials like: application fees, tuition gaps, books, meals, dorm and school supplies, and the myriad college related and living expenses their wealthier peers’ families can afford. Learn how we’re making a difference.

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​WHAT FOLKS ARE SAYING
" I like that you are filling the needs that others don’t usually think about.”    PB
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"I commend you for making a difference in the community for the future younger generation. Your efforts go a long way."  CS
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Learn how we helped an aspiring young opera singer soar . . . with your help we can do more
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​Get the picture: Our first grant recipient’s inspiring story and ​Today Show segment illustrate how potential is mined when embraced by supportive organizations and individuals. "I’m blessed," Anthony remarked, when we first met in 2017. And that, he is: with talent for opera, his voice; acceptance into an extraordinary nonprofit program from 6th through 12th grades and into a public magnet school for the arts where his gift was nurtured. The only crucial thing missing? The Money… to pay off first-term college debt and release his transcripts to apply to, audition at and visit universities and music conservatories… in hopes of receiving a generous scholarship. 

Blessings rained down upon him in the way of funds to pay off his debt when a columnist got word of and wrote about his predicament and fundraiser he created. Newspaper readers seeing the tragedy in the story wanted to help, including me through All Out for Change®. 

Talking with him and learning what he needed funds for, I realized he and his ambitious peers can’t even apply for many scholarship opportunities without the money to submit college applications and visit schools. So, we created a grant for this purpose, and Anthony was our first recipient. Scholarship offers followed!  He accepted a full scholarship to Oberlin Conservatory of Music.

Had he not received the press revealing this predicament faced by he and his bright promising peers, he, his dreams and aspirations, could have been stuck in a holding pattern, working at minimum wage to slowly chip away at the debt and accruing interest. So true, his remarks, “I’m blessed,” and “it takes a village”.   Learn more about Anthony and our other Supplemental Scholarship recipients.​

Many of our youth are on an exceptionally challenging journey to change their lives and we’re here to help make that change happen. 
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​How your Contributions Help: Your contributions and help spreading the word will put the cause on the national radar, cultivate empowered youth, their upward mobility, achievement and change for good as we: 

• Help individual students with Supplemental Scholarship Funds, providing life-changing grants for essentials like application fees, tuition gaps, travel expenses to visit schools, laptops, books, meals, school supplies, and the myriad college and college prep expenses their wealthier peers’ families can afford.

• Build a public awareness campaign… their conundrum stories will be amplified through our megaphone. We want people to “get the picture”, learn about the tragic conundrum of youth, from families lacking financial resources, who have aspirations for a career and economic mobility; read about it, help do something about it.
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“I’m optimistic that ALL together we can help change lives in a very significant, much needed way. When I read stories and meet young adults and teens with aspirations, talent and initiative like Anthony, and when I learn of the many strangers’ desire to pitch in, I trust we can make a life-time difference for others.” MaryAnn Puglisi, Chief Engagement Officer, Founder, All Out for Change®
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All Out for Change® and You can put others on this life-changing path, allowing more students like Anthony to soar. 

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