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Scholarship Announcement
Scholarship 1
Upcoming Events 2
Devotion to Mentorship 2
The 2014 RVF Team 3
Sponsor Highlight 3
The Ralph Verde Foundation (RVF) is a service-oriented not-for-profit
organization dedicated to supporting academic achievement. Established in
March of 2012, the Foundation was founded in the memory of Ralph Verde,
who passed away of a terminal brain tumor in 2011 while completing his senior
year at Yale University. Ralph’s belief was that education was the cherished
means to any goal. In alignment with this philosophy, the RVF mission is to
promote student achievement and academic excellence. Its aim is to support
educational development for children of all ages, reward high-achieving
students for their successes in the classroom and the community, and inspire
academic excellence by propagating Ralph’s story. To achieve these goals, the
Foundation supports students financially and academically by awarding high
achieving high school seniors with college scholarships and by concurrently
sponsoring education-related service activities. To date, the Foundation has
organized fifteen events and secured over $40,000 in donations. This past
month, the RVF awarded two high school seniors with $10,000 in scholarships
after a rigorous review process. The RVF maintains a readership of over 1,000 subscribers and a team of 13
volunteers, two of whom were inducted in 2014.
About the Foundation
RVF Online Raffle April 1– April 14 Online (website TBA) RVF Volleyball Invitational April 5, 2014 Little Falls, NJ 9am—5pm
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Ralph Verde’s Yale senior portrait
Positive Forces
In October of 2013, the Foundation launched the 2014 Ralph Verde Foundation Scholarship application
which yielded 1,254 total applications, 300 more than the Foundation’s inaugural award. Two motivated
high school seniors were selected as scholarship recipients and were awarded a total of $10,000 in
scholarship awards.
The Ralph Verde Foundation Newsletter March 16, 2014 Volume 3, Issue 1
Isabella Grabski Suraj Shah
Learn more about our exceptional recipients on our website!
Academy for the Advancement
of Science and Technology
Passaic Valley High School
Upcoming events
The RVF Volleyball Invitational
Passaic Valley High School hosted its second annual RVF
Invitational Tournament in late March last year to kick off
their season. This year, the school plays host to nine other
local teams in an effort to prepare for their lengthy season
ahead. Come support PV! All net proceeds from conces-
sions will be donated towards the 2015 RVF Scholarship
Award and the Colin McNeill Scholarship Fund. If you would
like to volunteer at the event, please let us know:
ralphverdefund@gmail.com.
The RVF DC Happy Hour
Tentative: Late April
The Ralph Verde Foundation is organizing a happy hour event in Washington DC which will offer inexpensive
food and drink deals and raffled prizes. Visit our website in the coming weeks for further details.
In 2013, the RVF set out to realign its mission with serving as a mentorship resource to high school students. In January 2014, the Foundation organized its fourth seminar, this time in New York City, teaching high school students about the opportunities higher education provides. Six RVF volunteers partnered with University Neighborhood High School faculty to coach students on all areas of the college application proc-ess, including the college search process, the application itself, and resume building.
Consistent with the RVF’s mission to promote student achievement and academic excellence, the RVF has created a new division - Programming - which will focus on organizing and executing similar educational events on a consistent basis throughout our three key regions - NYC, DC, and NJ.
Devotion to Mentorship
April 5, 2014
The 2014 RVF Online Raffle
Because of the success of the Foundation’s first online tricky tray fundraiser in 2012, the RVF will
host a two-week online tricky tray fundraiser that will go live April 1st. This time around we will be
giving away five gift cards, three prize baskets, sport tickets, a bakers rack, a communications les-
son from Jezra Kaye , and other items donated from our constituency. We’ll send everyone the
website one week before the fundraiser goes live. Thank you to those who donated items.
April 1, 2014 (Previously schedule for March 1st)
Help us spread our mission. Tell friends,
family and/or strangers about us and have
them send us an email to get them on our
contact list. ralphvedefund@gmail.com
Join the Team!
Do you have a passion for service like us? Do
you have great ideas on how to help us grow?
Do you want to help high school grads obtain
the education they never dreamed of? Send
us an email with your contact information
with “Join the Team” in the subject.
Donating Items or Funds
Yes. We can use your assistance with growing
the Foundation through donating items or
money. All proceeds ($1 or $1,000,000) will
go to helping others. Visit our website to
learn more about how your gift can help.
Come out and Support RVF
RVF has been apart of and thrown many
events thus far ranging from dinners to
sporting events to community service events.
As you may have seen on the 2nd page of this
newsletter, we are running our second online
raffle. The first time the RVF ran its online
raffle, we generated over $6,000 in
donations. Our officers and loyal members
would love to see you at our events
supporting the cause and the Foundation. We
have grown substantially because of the
tremendous support we have received thus
far. Keep it up!
Spread the Word to Raise Awareness
As mentioned before, we love seeing you at
our events. We also love seeing new faces.
The Foundation reaches over 500 email
contacts, 200 Facebook contacts, and 150
twitter followers which is a great start!
The Ralph Verde Foundation is only as strong as its supporters.
48 Harrison Street
Little Falls, NJ 07424
ralphverdefund@gmail.com
March 16, 2014
Volume 3, Issue 1
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Wayne Dinettes & Stools, located in Little Falls, NJ, has
donated over $500 in furniture to the RVF-sponsored
raffles. Thank you for your support!
http://www.waynedinettes.com/
The Foundation has grown tremendously over the past year and over the past three
months, we have added two new members to the RVF team:
Cynthia Figueroa - Events Chair, DC Marybeth Benton - Program Chair, DC
The 2014 RVF Team
Sponsor Highlight
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