Teaming Up for Youth & Horses Mentoring Program

Have you ever ridden a horse?  Do you remember the mix of excitement, fear and awe?  Starting January 29th, Reach Potential is teaming up with Sunnyvale Public Safety and Dreampower Horsemanship to launch our Mentoring program with at-risk Sunnyvale teens getting their first experience on a horse with their mentor by their side. Why horses?  [...]

Sunnyvale Leaders Launch Mentoring Initiative

There’s something stirring in Sunnyvale “in a very cool way,” as Captain Doug Moretto of Sunnyvale Public Safety will often remark at Challenge Team meetings.  Community leaders are coming together to steer youth away from drugs and juvenile delinquency through the Sunnyvale Youth Mentoring Initiative.  Public Safety officers, business leaders and Reach Potential Movement’s Mentoring [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]