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Contra Costa Marketplace - June 2017

Sharing the honors with the Teaching Excellence Awards winners will be: THE 2017 COLLABORATIVE PARTNER OF THE YEAR 28 MARKETPLACECONTRACOSTA.COM JUNE 2017 RYSE Youth Center The RYSE Youth Center’s mission is to creates safe spaces grounded in social justice that build youth power for young people to love, learn, educate, heal and transform lives and communities. RYSE offers many different programs for our youth including Health and Wellness programs, Education and Career, Media Art and Culture, Youth Organizing and Leadership, Youth Justice, and many more. RYSE truly cares about students and youth in this community and does outreach at various district schools to support what educators and staffs are doing. We are so grateful to everyone who supported the event but especially our business partners and supporters, including Magna Cum Laude partners Alten Construction, Inc., Chevron, and West Contra Costa Unified School District and Cum Laude partners Kaiser Permanente, Lozano Smith Attorneys at Law, Mechanics Bank, and Travis Credit Union. Since its founding in 1983, the Ed Fund has provided more than $3.4 million in funding to enrich education for West Contra Costa Unified School District students. By the end of this fiscal year, that funding will have provided more than 794 grants to teachers and schools, 144 Teaching Excellence Awards, more than 14 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 $1.7 million in college scholarships. This year alone, with the support of the African American Male Scholarship, Bernice Bell Memorial Scholarship, Irene S. Scully Family Foundation, Norma and Arthur Schroeder Family Foundation, and Whittier Education Foundation, Ed Fund will make it possible for 20 West Contra Costa Unified high school seniors to realize their college dreams by awarding almost $60,000 in college scholarships. DR. JANET CHAN YANI’S PLACE Estate Blow Out Sale, Household Goods, Rugs, Furnishings, Art, Cookware, Packaged Goods Assorted Quality Goods Thu & Fri: 9:00am-3:00pm Sat: 9:00am-4:00pm or by appointment 510-275-3719 / 510-778-8220 4128 Lakeside Drive, Richmond NOW OPEN! Texas Gas & Smog 3363 San Pablo Dam Road, San Pablo • (510) 243-0622 Mon-Sat : 8:30am-7:00pm Sun: 9:00am-5:00pm Western Union & Money Orders available $48.25 Smog Certificate Included w/ Free Retest Vehicle 1999 & older: +$10.00 1995 & older may require evap test (+$10.00) Expires 12/31/2017


Contra Costa Marketplace - June 2017
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