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 [...]

“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 [...]