Teens Go for the Gold!

The Girl Scout Gold Award is the highest award in Girl Scouting.  It symbolizes outstanding accomplishments in the areas of leadership, community service, career planning and personal development.  Very few Girl Scouts reach this honor so we’re thrilled that one of our volunteer champions, Olivia, and a Mountain View Girl Scout troop leader, Kim, had [...]

Literacy Programs Launch with Bookshelf Projects

“Seeing the faces of the participants and reading the feedback forms is a welcome testimony to how happy and pleased the families were who came to the event.  Having such a sweet wooden bookcase that the children could individualize was priceless. They had ownership in the decorating of the bookshelf and in filling it with [...]

Two Thousand Stories Behind

Why a Bookshelf in Every Home? One look at the connections between Literacy, Drop Out & Incarceration Rates can motivate a city to make sure every child grows up with books and can read by third grade.  Yet a friend powerfully framed another loss a child unknowingly experiences when they grow up in a home [...]

Bookshelf in Every Home Projects

Join us for one of our upcoming “Bookshelf in Every Home” Literacy projects.  We need your help at the following projects: Sunday, Sept. 26 1:30-4:30 pm THEUERKAUF Elementary 1625 San Luis Avenue, Mountain View Saturday, Oct, 2* 9:30am-12:30 pm MONTA LOMA Elementary 460 Thompson Avenue, Mountain View *This Oct. 2 Project is totally TEEN LED! [...]

Dream 4 College Project

This spring Reach Potential Movement will partner with schools to inspire first generation to college fifth & sixth grade students with an up close college experience at a local University.  Last  year’s pilot project between Castro Elementary and Stanford University was an amazing success (read more!).  Our upcoming projects will provide: A college field trip [...]

Dream for College Project

Dream for College Project: Inspiring first generation to college 5th graders On May 20th, Reach Potential Movement will partner with Castro Elementary school in Mountain View, CA to inspire 50 mostly Latino fifth grade students with an up close college experience at Stanford University.  Click here if you would like to sponsor a student with [...]

Día del Niño & Día del Libro Celebration!

On a beautiful Sunday afternoon (4/25), Castro Elementary, Open Door Church (Mountain View) and Reach Potential Movement celebrated Día del Niño (Day of the Child), a holiday celebrated around the world, especially in Latin countries and a newer holiday:  Día del Libro (World Book Day). Approximately 1000 kids, youth and adults enjoyed a ”Reading Brings [...]

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 [...]