The 2015 collaboraTive ParTner of The Year Sharing the honors with the Teaching Excellence Awards winners will be: Liz Chavez, Former Assistant Director of Advising Services Early Academic Outreach Program (EAOP), University of California Liz’s passion has been working with Educational Equity Programs for the last 38 years. She has been committed to social justice and racial justice in education. Liz has been dedicated to ensuring all students, specifically first generation college students, have access to higher education. “Knowledge is power”. Liz has been a principal member of the West County College Access Network and worked diligently to build its infrastructure, including creating a College & Career Center at De Anza High School, expanding EAOP from 2 to 6 sites in the West Contra Costa Unified School District, and planning and organizing the Getting Ready for College Conference. We are so grateful to everyone who supported the event but especially the 14 businesses which sponsored the event, including our Magna Cum Laude anonymous sponsor and Cum Laude Sponsors Chamberlin Family Foundation, Chevron Products Company, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, and Orbach Huff Suarez & Henderson. Since its founding in1983, the Ed Fund has provided more than $3 million in funding to enrich education for West Contra Costa Unified School District students. By the end of its 27th year, that funding will have provided more than 782 grants to teachers and schools, 134 Teaching Excellence Awards, more than 12 years of after school programs at district middle schools, hundreds of music and arts programs at all grade levels, dozens of summer scholarships to enable students to attend summer camps and workshops, and more than $1 million in college scholarships. This year alone, with the support of College Futures Foundation, Ed Fund Cash for College, Irene S. Scully Family Foundation, James Irvine Foundation, Schroeder Family Foundation, and the Whittier Educational Foundation, Ed Fund will make it possible for 67 West Contra Costa Unified high school seniors to realize their college dreams by awarding almost $160,000 in college scholarships. book your EvEnts Early! Perfect For...Weddings • Graduations • Wakes • Quinceaneras Family Events • Baby Showers • Birthday & Anniversary Parties Veterans Club of El Sobrante Banquet & Ballroom Rental Cooking Classes • Dance Classes Pilates Classes • Line Dancing Jazzercise • Exercise Class Art Classes • Band Practice Professional Meetings Instructional Classes Church/Prayer Meetings Breakfast/Lunch/ Dinner Meetings Photo Classes • Over 3,000 sq feet (seating for 200) • Band stand & private parking lot • Kitchen w/stove & refrigerator • Bar area • Catering list available - or use your own CAll fOr SPECiAl WEEKdAy rAtES! Please call for pricing & reservations! (510) 223-9910 • 5216 Sobrante Avenue • El Sobrante
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