Published on
February 6, 2012 in
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In the final week of January, Saint Vincent’s Day Home classrooms received a special visit from Lindsay, our “Raising a Reader” program coordinator.
Raising a Reader started as a local book sharing club and grew into a national network that serves low-income families throughout California and 35 other states!
The Raising a Reader program allows each student to bring home a red bag filled with high-quality, developmentally appropriate, multilingual and multicultural children’s books each week. The children experience regular read-alouds in the classroom which keep them excited about reading and sharing the red bag with their families.
The Dolphins class enjoyed their monthly field trip to the West Oakland Branch Library. Students in Toddlers 3, 3’s/4’s and PK I & II got to embark on a monthly adventure to the library called “The Enrichment Experience.” Each class goes at a designated time, is transported by a spacious bus and stays for one hour. During…
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Published on
January 10, 2012 in
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Saint Vincent’s Day Home was once again the lucky recipient of Fenton’s Creamery philanthropic endeavors. For the last few years, Fenton’s Creamery Oakland has chosen Saint Vincent’s Day Home to be their Charity of the Month in December donating 20% of the proceeds from their “Sundae of the Month” to our program. This year’s response…
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Published on
January 5, 2012 in
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The response to our plea to adopt our neediest families over the holidays was fantastic! We were able to pair 14 families with a very generous group of donors for our 2011 Adopt-A-Family holiday program. We extend A HUGE thank you to our “adopters” Jennifer Adams, Kevin & Robin Bertelsen, Tom & Carol Donnelly, Genentech,…
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As Saint Vincent’s Day Home celebrates our first century serving Oakland’s children, we look forward to the next 100 years with hope, optimism, and a sense of duty. It is clear that a new model of sustainability is needed in order to plan for a financially uncertain future. The most secure non‐profit organizations in tough times…
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