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

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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

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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.

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Little Falls, NJ 07424

ralphverdefund@gmail.com

March 16, 2014

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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!

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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

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