Class Adoptions Counterpunch School Cuts

RPM is matchmaking community groups with Castro Elementary classrooms where teachers need the extra support.  With class sizes increasing at Title One schools (over 50% of students are at or below the poverty line) across California, community groups can partner with Reach Potential and low-income schools to make sure kids thrive and do not fall [...]

Reading Volunteers Needed!

“30 hours of tutoring helps the typical student advance one grade level in their reading… what a difference you can make!” (readingpartners.org) San Miguel Elementary in Sunnyvale is looking for members in our community who can devote ONE HOUR a week to assist teachers in improving the early literacy skills of 1st grade students who [...]

Soccer Coaches and Volunteers Needed

2009 Video Highlights

Hey RP Movers! 2009 has been a great year of empowering people to reach their highest potential! Many thanks to Barry for putting together our 2009 highlights and for all of you who have given an hour of your time or some of your resources to transform lives.  Click here to watch and we look [...]

The Gift of Time

A few days ago I (Rob) was given a huge gift by three principals of three Title One (over 50% low income students) elementary schools in Northern California.  Despite the challenges they each experience in educating more students with limited resources, each principal gave me the costly gift of their time which allowed me to [...]

“Bookshelf in Every Home” Project

“Bookshelf in Every Home” Project Launch! As we have listened to educators in local low income schools, the need we have heard most dramatically is literacy… especially early literacy efforts to empower parents before their children fall one to two grades behind in reading.  RPM’s response is our “Bookshelf in Every Home” Project, in which [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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