Scholarship Announcement

Scholarship 1

Upcoming Events 2

The RVF Mentorship Program 2

The 2013 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 works to support students financially and academically by awarding high achieving high school seniors with college scholarships and by sponsoring education-related service activities. In its inaugural year the RVF’s primary focus was to serve as a financial resource for students by awarding college scholarships to high-achieving high school seniors. Its approach was to secure scholarship funds through a combination of fundraising events, corporate sponsorships, and private donations. By the end of 2012, the Foundation organized nine successful fundraising events and secured over $20,000 in donations. RVF maintains a readership of over 900 subscribers heading into 2013.

About the Foundation

RVF Invitational Volleyball Tournament

March 23, 2013

PVHS; Little Falls, NJ

9am-5pm

Washington DC Community Service Event

April 6, 2013 and April 13,2013

Washington DC

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Ralph Verde’s Yale senior portrait

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In October of 2012, the Foundation launched the inaugural Ralph Verde Foundation Scholarship appli-

cation which yielded 940 total applications submitted. Four deserving high school seniors were selected

as scholarship recipients and were awarded a total of $17,000 in scholarship awards.

Below are the 2013 RVF Scholarship Award recipients:

The Ralph Verde Foundation Newsletter March 18, 2013 Volume 2, Issue 1

Isabelle Ingato Dominique Voso Nathaniel Goodman Eunice Park

Learn more about our recipients on our revamped website!

Upcoming events

RVF Volleyball Invitational

Passaic Valley High School hosted its first annual RVF Invi-

tational Tournament in early April 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 season opener April

1st against Lakeland. Come support PV! All net proceeds

from concessions will be donated towards the 2014 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.

Washington DC Community Service event

April 6, 2013 and April 13, 2013

The Ralph Verde Foundation will be partnering with The Youth Leader-

ship Foundation to present to high school students and their parents on

college application best practices, how to maximize financial aid, how

to succeed in both the classroom and community, and how to best lev-

erage a higher education degree to get a job.

The RVF 5K scholarship run

Tentative: May 18, 2013

The Ralph Verde Foundation is organizing a 5K run in Woodland Park’s Garrett Mountain. Keep posted

on our website for further details.

The Ralph Verde Foundation Mentorship Program (RVF-MP) will serve as a resource providing students in underprivileged educational systems the opportunity to develop a strong academic foundation outside of the classroom. While there are currently over 5,000 mentoring programs that serve an estimated three mil-lion youths in the United States, there is differentiation in the effectiveness of these interactions when it comes to advancing students’ educational development. The RVF-MP aims to identify factors that lead to the optimization of benefits for young people seeking support resources for educational advancement.

Students selected for the RVF-MP will be assigned a mentor who will be trained to provide guidance and re-sources aimed at developing educational skills. Topics include enhancing study habits, developing test-taking strategies, and supporting college/career-goal planning. Consistent with the RVF’s mission to pro-mote student achievement and academic excellence, the overarching goal of the program is to provide stu-dents with equal access to tools necessary to achieve success.

The RVF is currently applying for corporate sponsorship to fund the RVF-MP. We hope to roll this program out in Northern NJ, New York City and Washington DC by Fall 2013.

The RVF Mentorship Program

March 23, 2013

the year. 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 have two community service

events coming up in Washington DC and

have many more in the works. 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 450 email

contacts, 200 Facebook contacts, and 150

twitter followers which is a great start! We

hope to reach 1,000 members by the end of

The Ralph Verde Foundation is only as strong as its supporters.

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Little Falls, NJ 07424

ralphverdefund@gmail.com

March 18, 2013

Volume 2, Issue 1

Annual Edition

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Care 4 a Cure Foundation donated $750 to RVF in 2012 in

an effort to grow RVF’s Scholarship Award for 2013 high

school graduates. Thank you for your support!

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The Foundation has grown tremendously over the past year and over the past four

months, we have added three new members to the RVF team:

Ryan Lowe - VP Marketing Dana Sleeper - Sponsorship Chairs - Maria Liberti

The 2013 RVF Team

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