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NEEDS IDENTIFIED AND HOW WILL MEET
Last year Orange Sunrise Rotary mentored students enrolled in the Collaborative Technology Program (CTP) at El Modena High School. CTP is a California Partnership Academy that targets at-risk students and focuses on student success. Academy guidelines require connecting students with local business/community mentors. The Mentor Meals project fulfills their grant requirement and enriches the lives of 75 students.
We learned a lot in our pilot year and have redesigned our grant to better meet the needs of the students. The four Mentor Meals where the regular Rotary club meetings moved to the high school were well received and will continue. Rotarians will interact with 45 high school juniors at dinner programs that will consist of a light meal, a focus topic (Community Service, Ethics, Soft-skills in the Workplace, etc), and related table topics to generate dialogue and communication.
Additional components of Mentor Meals that will continue:
1. Collaboration with the Hispanic Chamber of Commerce(HCC) - They will fund the Explorer Career Club, offer $500 in scholarship funds and recruit 6 to 8 additional members.
2. Student Leadership Team - Rotarians will work closely with the team in the planning, organization and operation of the meals.
3. Senior Projects - Rotarians will serve on judging panels for 30 senior student projects.
New components of the Mentor Meals grant will include:
1. Mentor Training - Ms.Greenley (lead CTP teacher) will conduct a mentor training prior to mentor/student interaction. We learned mentors need both more background information on at-risk students and an overview of the goals of CTP. This training will be held at a regular Rotary meeting and will also include the HCC mentors.
2. Advisory Board - The club will assist Ms. Greenley in establishing a CTP Advisory Board.
3. Senior Planning Dinner - Rotarians will meet again with the students that they mentored last year. The additional, separate dinner will focus on discussing the student's post secondary education/career plans and their senior project ideas.
4.Project Debriefing - Ms. Greenely will attend a regular Rotary meeting next spring, along with the HCC mentors, for a project debriefing.
TIMELINE
September 2014 - Mentor Training
October and November 2014 - Mentor Meals #1 and #2
January 2015 - Senior Planning Dinner
February 2015 - Mid-year Celebration
March and April 2015 - Mentor Meals #3 and #4
May 2015 - Judge Senior Projects
June 2015 - Awards Banquet
USE OF FUNDS
$1200 - Food and supplies for five meals and the mid-year celebration
$300 - Awards and incentives
$2500 - Student scholarships
$4000 - TOTAL GRANT
ROTARY CLUB MEMBER INVOLVEMENT
* Server as mentors/role models
* Coordinate meetings with the Student Leadership Team
* Judge senior projects
* Interview and select scholarship winners
* Serve on the CTP Advisory Board (1 member)
Addendum to Project Description (added after the project was signed)
The Hispanic Chamber of Commerce, a partner in the Mentor Meals Project, is a 501c3 and has agreed to receive the scholarship funds. They will in turn assume responsibility for overseeing the monies and for the disbursement of funds to post-secondary education institutions once students have confirmed enrollment. Agreement as per Ron Esparza, Chair for the Education Committee/Career Club through the Hispanic Chamber of Commerce. (see his support letter under document section)
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