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For my Leadership project I went through a process that allowed me to donate Build-A-Bears to Valley Children’s Hospital in Madera,  Agape Villages Foster Family Agency, and James Baldwin Academy a part of Seneca Family of Agencies in San Leandro. To raise money I made Rice Krispies Treats and sold them at Muirwood Park. After that I went door to door in my neighborhood to ask for donations. I also asked family and friends for donations. I  raised almost $2,000 and donated about 140 bears. This experience has made me realize that these kids are real champions. They have fought through a lot throughout their lives. This is something that I will try to keep doing as my life goes on.

– Presley B., U12 Orange

For our RAGE Leadership Community Service Project, we decided to help the kids of Santa Rosa affected by the wildfires. My three teammates and I sponsored several Angel Trees, one per our four schools, by partnering with the Salvation Army of Santa Rosa. The Angel Tree program puts a child’s gift wish on an Angel Tree Tag. We also invited our whole team to participate by distributing 10 tags per player in addition to our 4 Angel Trees. Friends, family, students, and faculty would come and sign out a tag, or tags, buy the requested gift, and return the tag and gift to the tree unwrapped. We would each gather the collected presents weekly for the majority of December and then, on Thursday, December 14, a parent volunteer had to rent a U-Haul truck to deliver all the gifts we collected to the Salvation Army of Santa Rosa for distribution to the needy children. In the end we were able to spread the holiday spirit to over 800 children!

– Sienna, Natalie, Kanjanika, Saili, RAGE 04 Grey

For our RAGE Leadership Project, we organized a Kids Against Hunger packing event with both of our teams and our big/little sister teams. This project was done by Kylia and Isabella from the 06 Premier and Orange teams. We really appreciate the help from everyone who supported our project. Kids Against Hunger packs a variety of nutritional items into a bag that gets weighed and sealed to be sent to wherever it is needed. The items in the bag consisted of dried vegetables, soy protein, rice, and vitamin powder. We had to measure out all of these items and funnel them into the bag. When we packed the food, we chose to have the food sent to Puerto Rico. We chose Puerto Rico because they had recently suffered from a terrible hurricane. Afterwards, we learned we packed 6,480 meals. It felt good to know how we helped others less fortunate than we are.

– Izzy Montague and Kylia Oki, Rage 2006 – Orange/Premier