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Mission
Spark inspires Bay Area youth with real-world opportunities.
Key Facts
Geographic areas served:
San Francisco Bay Area
Target demographics:
Spark inspires middle-school youth to pursue their interests, create bonds with their communities, and develop a lifelong passion for learning. To accomplish this mission, Spark operates summer and after-school programs that match students with apprenticeships in professions of their choice at local workplaces.
Spark works with 7th and 8th grade students in Redwood City and San Francisco.
Results to date:
We have served 130 students in the Bay Area since 2005.
Obstacles:
We have had tremendous difficulties securing transportation for the students in our program. Often times their parents are unavailable or unable to drive them to and from apprenticeships and programs. We have often had to pay drivers or rent vans to transport the children.
What your donation will allow us to do:
ensure that all students, regardless of household income, have the opportunity to be inspired by an apprenticeship in a profession of their choice. Spark programs are offered on a sliding scale, and students, dependent on need, pay as little as $20 per semester.
Your donation of $75 enables us to:
provide transportation for a student field trip to a local community center, learning institution, or business.
Your donation of $200 enables us to:
provide snacks for students throughout leadership program semester.
Your donation of $800 enables us to:
sponsor a student’s full 8-week apprenticeship and leadership program.
Board Members and Affiliation:
Chris Balme: Co-Founder & Executive Director.
Dana Bennis, Board Secretary: Education Program Associate, Bay & Paul Foundations. Advisor, Calhoun School.
Anne Marie Burgoyne: Treasurer; Portfolio Director, Draper Richards Foundation.
Melia Dicker: Co-Founder.
Nir Margalit: General Counsel, Adfam, LLC
John McKee, Board Chairman: Dean of Development & College Relations, University of California - Berkeley.
Ashley Quintana: Youth Adviser. Graduate of 2005 Spark Program. Student, Menlo School.
Past and Current Funders:
All Stars Helping Kids
Applied Materials Civic Venture Fund
Atkinson Foundation
Autodesk
Charter Oak Foundation
Bothin Foundation
Crescent Porter Hale Foundation
David & Lucile Packard Foundation
Dean Witter Foundation
eBay Champion-a-Charity
Enterprise Rent-a-Car Foundation
GGS Foundation
Genentech
John & Marcia Goldman Foundation
Kimball Foundation
Lin Family Foundation
Lisa & Douglas Goldman Foundation
Miranda Lux Foundation
Morris Stulsaft Foundation
Parthenon Capital
Peery Foundation
Peninsula Community Foundation
PG&E
Provident Credit Union
Rainbow Grocery Cooperative
San Francisco Foundation
SanDisk
S.D. Bechtel, Jr. Foundation
S.H. Cowell Foundation(br /> Scandling Family Foundation
Scott Evans Foundation
Silicon Valley Community Foundation
Staples Foundation for Learning
Symantec
TJX Foundation
Union Bank of California
Wells Fargo Bank
Yahoo! Employee Foundation
Key Staff
Chris Balme, Executive Director
Jon Spack, Director of Consulting, Interim Program Director
Julie McGuire, Development Director
Von Diaz, Development Manager
Katie Griffin, Grants Manager
Nathalie Wade, Community Outreach Manager
Jen Bloomer, Program Manager
Katie Krummeck, Program Development and Evaluation Manager
Abe Abullarade, Program Coordinator - Redwood City
Lupita Rodriguez, Program Coordinator - San Francisco
Description
Resonate’s SPARK program inspires middle-school youth to pursue their interests, create bonds with their communities, and develop a lifelong passion for learning.