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! [...]

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 [...]

Help Us Go to the Final Four!

Hi friends! Reach Potential Movement has a unique opportunity!   Razoo selected us to participate in their annual March Goodness Campaign where 96 nonprofits have the platform to share their cause with the world.  We can win over $11,000 to help kids READ & DREAM!  Please consider voting for us by giving $10 to our [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]