Kids Take the Stage Amidst Summer School Cancellation

Slides and summers go together like peanut butter and jelly for most kids.  However, Reach Potential Kids aimed at keeping students off the “summer slide” which describes what happens when young minds sit idle all summer.  The potential for summer slide was especially high this summer when Mountain View Whisman schools decided to eliminate summer [...]

Kick, Lead, Dream Soccer Camp

What can we do to impact our community?  Over three years ago, the Nigam family talked about serving our community, and when Akash, their oldest son said he would do anything related to soccer to help others, their family began an incredible adventure.  What started simply as a discussion question led to a dream that [...]

Compassion Weekend at Castro Elementary

What a weekend!  On April 25-26, 300 volunteers from Open Door Church (ODC) of Mountain View, a campus of Menlo Park Presbyterian Church (MPPC), and several other Reach Potential volunteers teamed up to support  Castro Elementary in Mountain View.  From construction projects and health screenings to parent education workshops  and a Treasure Hunt Reading Festival [...]

Your calling is calling!

Classic!  Has anyone seen Monster’s latest commercial of a stork battling hungry wolves, the elements and working his (or her?!) butt off to do their part in providing the precious opportunity for someone to reach their highest potential?  It totally fits their motto – Your calling is calling! Watch this 59 second commercial before reading [...]

Surrogate Room Parents Help Teacher and Kids

A group of friends from Bay Light Community Church decided to “adopt” a classroom at Castro Elementary School in Mountain View and partner with the teacher to support her students.  95% of this teacher’s 5th Grade students were English language learners from low income families. Various friends helped students in morning math club, they chaperoned field trips, [...]

A Lunch Hour a Week Impacts Lives

Another RP Mover showed up at Great Exchange Covenant Church one Sunday to find his pastor wearing an “Ask me why” nametag.  Taking the bait, he asked “why” and heard some sobering facts about youth drop-out rates in the heart of Silicon Valley (approx. 40% for Hispanic and African-American youth) and decided to volunteer with [...]

Luther Burbank Middle to Archbishop Mitty High School

The impossible is possible when catalysts and “impossible” situations collide.  One of our board members (aka—RP Mover) teaches at Luther Burbank Middle School in San Jose.  After seeing many of his brightest students transition to the local gang impacted high schools, he had an idea.  A few weeks later, four of his students summoned their [...]