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 [...]

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 [...]

“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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]