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 are [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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