San Diego Nonprofits and Charities

I am an intern at GENI starting June 2012 and so far I have had a good experience in working with the various staff members of GENI and the SimCenter. Peter is a very helpful executive and the rest of the staff members are also very encouraging. GENI has a great project in the Project Energy City Competition to help students learn more about environmental concerns all over the world.

My three children are enrolled at San Diego Hua Xia Chinese School. My thirteen-year-old daughter started learning Chinese at SDHXCS in 2009. <br>Nice team! Teachers are very knowledgeable, caring and responsible. The administration is very helpful.<br>Great curriculums with fun stories, Chinese traditional poems, dialogues, riddles etc.<br>Excellent and affordable enrichment programs including dancing, martial arts, drawing, music, computer programming and coding, tennis etc.<br>I love SDHXCS!!

The Torrey Pines High School Foundation has been dedicated to serving ALL STUDENTS for over 25 years.<br>One of the amazing programs the foundation sponsors is Challenge Days.<br><br>The goal of the Challenge Day program is to build community and to help end the teasing, harassment and alienation that are so deeply a part of the high school experience for millions of teenagers every day. Challenge Day is a powerful and transformational day that can change the way people view each other forever. It is a day of fun, friendship, and new possibilities. This Challenge Day is for all grade levels. Thank you TPHS Foundation!

I am beginning my 14th year as a volunteer reader for kindergarten and first grade students with less opportunity. My students are all English Language Learners living below the poverty level. I continue to be a reader because, as a retired bilingual elementary school teacher, I know that hearing the language in well written books and seeing engaging, supporting illustrations will stimulate a child's desire to read.If they want to read, it will make the teacher's job of teaching them to read much easier. children need books in their homes and this program makes it possible for me to give each child two new, quality books every year to start or add to their own personal libraries. They can hardly believe that they really get to keep the book. Their eyes light up when they see their own name on the bookplate I put in every book. Students often come up to me and tell me that they still have the books that I gave them years before and that they have read them many times as well as shared them with other family members. They tell me that they keep the books in a safe place where the dog can't chew them or their baby sister can't mess them up. They tell me that they get public library cards and check out the books that I have read to them.When I see the children and hear their comments, I know that my time is well spent. <br> <br> A literate population make a country strong. Rolling Readers helps the United States reach that goal, one child at a time. I am pleased that I can help in some small way.

My daughter completed her 13 year journey from Kindergarten through High School, Class of 2015, and it was truly a blessing. She is now a happy, healthy and successful college student who attributes a lot of her curiosity and love of learning to her Waldorf education. She has developed a solid work ethic, is engaged in student government, has a genuine interest in others, and is a capable young adult. At The Waldorf School of San Diego, she developed such a depth of learning across many subjects, that her college professors often remark on it. She was taught HOW to think, rather than WHAT to think, which serves her well in life. The Waldorf School of San Diego develops free thinking, well rounded students, with a strong moral compass. They are passionate about their local and global communities and have the capability to get up off the couch and go out and make change in the world! Waldorf education is a true gift for any child!

MANA de San Diego was established over 26 years ago. In that time, Latina women have come together to support each other as minority group. We do so by supporing a) professional women through our Latina Sucess Conference, Networking Mixers and quarterly 'Platicas' or workshops b) un-insured and underinsured women via our annual Health Fair (in 2011 we served over 600+ women, men and children) c) women seeking higher education via our scholarship program and finally d) our signature 'Hermanitas'/Mentorship program similiar to Big Brothers big Sisters but more structured via monthly workshops, GPA requirements, Community Service & attendence guidelines. This organization embodies the concept of 'paying it forward'. Over time we have had our Hermanitas graduate, apply for a scholarship and recieve it, become members and ultimately volunteer.