Upcoming Activities

Spring Soccer Academy

Our first ever spring soccer academy will take place in the evenings at Cesar Chavez school starting March 11 with the following schedule:

The cost is $20 for ages 4-8 and $40 for ages 9-12. To sign up, pick up a form at our signup box at 2379 Dumbarton Ave. in East Palo Alto, or come to one of the practices.

News

Matching Grant

The Graf Pulvino Family Fund has challenged all of us to make the summer in East Palo Alto a fun place for children, and to develop the leadership potential of our youth. If you would like to donate to RYAA and have your donation doubled by the matching grant, click here.

Blogs

Relocation

Have you ever relocated? Knowing that Americans are extremely mobile, I’m guessing you have moved from the house you grew up in and have, at least once, established a new home or business. People relocate for many different reasons ranging from work, to health, to love, to family, to education. Underlying almost all of these [...] read more...

Cesar Perez on LEAD

Over this past summer, I had the privilege of working at LEAD. LEAD is a summer job open to teenagers and it provides them with leadership skills so that they can make a difference in their community (East Palo Alto). As many of us know, East Palo Alto is not the best neighborhood existent. East [...] read more...

A safe place to grow up

We published a video a couple weeks ago that showed some younger students playing sports during recess as a result of the organization and leadership of some of our high school students. (Link to our video) Little over a month ago, an article was published in the Mercury News reporting on the film submission of [...] read more...

Fredy Torres: Learning to Lead

What we believe and advocate here at RYAA is the transformational power of faith-based mentoring, leadership and development of character through positive opportunities—primarily through our sport programs. Stories of successful character development are incredibly encouraging because they testify not to our own efforts but to God’s power and goodness. One of the most crucial elements [...] read more...

Going to Samaria

“Oh, they won’t come to East Palo Alto.” replied Stephanie, a student at Palo Alto High School. Palo Alto High is on the other side of the freeway from East Palo Alto. Recently, we asked local high school students who were on Spring break to come to Cesar Chavez School in East Palo Alto to [...] read more...

For the past couple of weeks we’ve been telling you about how our high schoolers stepped up to lead and serve their community’s youth. Now, you can take a look at some of their great work! It is so encouraging to see God raising up leaders in this community. read more...

Sports During Recess Help Students During Testing

Sometimes it is easy to doubt what kind of impact we are having on somebody’s life.  But I know that God will use every seed sown to reap some good fruit for His kingdom.  A couple of weeks ago we posted comments from Cesar Chavez Academy Principal Amika Maria Maran Guillaume.  She spoke of how [...] read more...

Avi Barrigan Speaks Up About How SUMMER LEAD Program Helped Her Realize She Does Make a Difference

The experience I had with lead was one of the most memorable in my life. They offered me so much and I benefited from the program more than others benefited from me: I made good friendships and had my first job experience. I learned so much, but the one thing that stuck with me most [...] read more...

High schoolers give back to community!

This past week youth from a local high schools came to Cesar Chavez Academy and helped put on sports programming during recess.  This was a true blessing because the equipment and organized nature of the sports is something unfamiliar to the school.  We join Amika in commending our young leaders and their efforts! Having Shannon [...] read more...

Transforming Lives Through Sports and Gospel

A little over a week ago, God blessed the RYAA community with a generous gift of support by Louis Zamperini given through Menlo Park Presbyterian church.  We praise God for this gift and intend to use it to further our goal of building character, families, and faith.  We also commend Louis Zamperini and Menlo Park [...] read more...