Dear Supporters and Friends,
Just a few short weeks ago was our first ever virtual Perfect Pairings Benefit and it was a huge success! Together we celebrated the resilience and dedication of our wonderful volunteer tutors and raised $90,000 to support local students!
A big round of applause to our event sponsors, donors, and speakers who made it a success, as well as the Healthy Cities staff and board members who worked tirelessly to plan an inspiring evening highlighting the Perfect Pairings of tutors and students. Many also enjoyed delicious food and wine catered by long-time partner and local San Carlos winery, Domenico’s.
We are especially grateful to the Baker Family Charitable Trust and their incredible support at the Magnum Level. We are honored to receive this significant gift and gifts from so many individuals and businesses that have contributed to support our mission – thank you. You can view a full list of event sponsors here.
With moving speeches from U.S. Congresswoman Jackie Speier and Dr. Michelle Harmeier, testimonials from tutors, students, and their families, educators and more, the impact of your support was made real through the stories shared.
We are filled with gratitude for your support and hope you saw first-hand the positive ways your donations are fueling creativity and connection between the tutors and students in our program.
So many inspiring speakers!
“Thanks to the generosity of many of you here tonight, Healthy Cities Tutoring was able to support 500 students with a tutor last year and develop a remote tutoring program that helped them stay connected… When I think of HCT I think of making a difference. All students deserve the support they need to succeed in learning and developing their unique talents… When our students do better, our schools do better and our communities do better.”
“As the Superintendent for the San Carlos School District I want to emphasize what a critical service this is for our students… Healthy Cities Tutoring is really an important part of our multi-tiered system of support… HCT helps us provide support to a large volume of students which we could never afford to do without this program… The role of this mentor really changes students attitudes about school, about their worth and their motivation in school. I’ve seen it countless times in students…”
Tutor Spotlight
Many Perfect Pairings spoke at our event, here are two of them sharing how working together this year has strengthened their relationship.
Joyce Strauss was one of our first Healthy Cities tutors starting 25 years ago and is still volunteering for us!
She has tutored Adriel for the last six years and they met remotely this past year.
Speaking about why she continues to tutor, Joyce says she sees the need and that there are so many kids that benefit from the extra support.
Joyce has found remote tutoring to work really well for her and Adriel, it has given them the chance to connect more than once a week as the need arises.
From Adriel’s perspective, he’s also enjoyed the experience. His advice to a student new to tutoring is to not be afraid, that the tutors are really nice and they will help you a lot.
Leonor Urbain has tutored Karen for the last several years and enjoys supporting the children in her community and rediscovering kids inherent curiosity.
This year, Leonor and Karen even made a book together! Karen loves art and wanted to grow her vocabulary and reading ability, so they decided to make a book that could explore both interests. They kept a running list of difficult words and found a way to weave them into the story Karen wanted to tell, while giving her a chance to showcase her artistic skills through the illustrations.
Karen refers back to the book from time to time to remember the words she learned. She enjoys her time with Leonor and it’s clear they have a strong bond and have creatively explored how to make distance learning and remote tutoring fun this year.
Give Where You Live – Coming May 4!
Our annual Give Where You Live, 24 hour day of giving campaign will be May 4th this year. We’re hoping to be out in the community as in years past to see you, our many friends and supporters.
Stay tuned for more details to come soon.
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