Period Zero

09/16/2026

09/16/2026

🚨 WE’RE GOING LIVE IN 10 MINUTES! 🚨

🎟️ It’s time to draw THREE Period Zero raffle winners!

🏒 Penguins + $100 Bass Pro Shops
🥟 Dumpling Delights
🍺 Brews, Bucks + Basics with a $50 Southern Tier gift card

👀 Did you buy tickets? Tune in to see if we call YOUR name!

We’re going LIVE right here on the Period Zero page in 10 minutes!

Thank you to everyone who came out tonight, bought tickets, grabbed a D Soda, and supported our youth programs. 💙💚

⏰ SEE YOU LIVE IN 10!

09/16/2026

🚨 TONIGHT = D Soda Company+ RAFFLES + PERIOD ZERO! 🥤🎟️

We’re set up at Bethel Beer and More and D Soda Company is HERE serving up their specialty drinks!

Come see Team PZ, grab a D Soda, and get those raffle tickets in because we’re drawing THREE winners at 8:30 PM TONIGHT!

🏒 Penguins + $100 Bass Pro Shops basket
🥟 Dumpling Delights featuring one of those hard-to-find Dumpling plushies!
🍺 Brews, Bucks + Basics with a $50 Southern Tier gift card

AND… 🛴 our RIDE INTO THE FUTURE raffle continues! Your chance to win the Segway E3 Pro SE electric scooter is still up for grabs.

Every ticket helps Period Zero continue creating opportunities for young people to discover, develop, demonstrate, connect and launch.

📍 Bethel Beer & More | 441 McMurray Road
⏰ Drawings at 8:30 PM TONIGHT

Come hang out with us, support local, and help us keep building opportunities for the next generation. 💙💚

09/16/2026

🎉 TWO PARTIES. ONE PERIOD ZERO COMMUNITY. 💚

We have a lot to celebrate this fall, and we want YOU there with us!

🪩 **AFTER DARK DANCE PARTY | 21+ FRIEND-RAISER**

Grab some friends and come spend the evening with Period Zero! This is our adults-only night to dance, connect, meet new people and introduce more friends to the Period Zero mission.

No formal fundraiser. No long program.

Just good people, great music and a fun night supporting a mission that matters.

🎃 **PZ’S HALLOWEEN PARTY | COMMUNITY EVENT**

This one is for the whole community!

We’re bringing together our students, families, friends, volunteers, partners and supporters for a Halloween celebration — and we have some BIG milestones to celebrate, too.

🎂 Audra is turning 50!
💚 Period Zero is growing!
🚀 And we’re celebrating how far we’ve come AND what’s ahead.

Want to meet the Period Zero team? Curious about getting involved? Interested in sponsoring an event? Or just want to come celebrate with us? You belong at the party.

Two different events. Two chances to join the fun. One incredible community.

👉 **See all the details and register here:**
https://periodzero.ai/events/

Tag the person you’re bringing with you! 👇

09/15/2026

Our Team Is Growing! We thought we were getting Brandon Dami for the summer.
Turns out, we’re keeping him. We’re excited to share that Brandon Dami is staying with Period Zero as a full-year intern!

Brandon originally came to us this summer through Ignite Business Incubator and Co-working Space, and we are incredibly grateful to Ignite for connecting us with someone who has become such a valuable part of the Period Zero team.

What started as a summer internship has grown into something more. Brandon will continue working with Period Zero throughout the year while completing his senior year at Washington & Jefferson College, where he is studying accounting.

And he won’t just be working behind the scenes.

This December, Brandon will step into a leadership role with our NextGen Leaders, leading our Holiday Money Challenge and helping students work through real-life decisions about spending, saving, budgeting, and managing money.

This is exactly what we want Period Zero to be about:

Create an opportunity.
Let someone show you what they can do.
Then find a way to keep them growing.

A big thank you to Ignite for bringing Brandon to Period Zero this summer. The internship may have had an end date, but Brandon’s work with us doesn’t.

Brandon came for the summer. He’s staying for the year. And he’s not the only new face you’ll be seeing. The Period Zero team is growing. Stay tuned.

09/15/2026

🥤 D Soda Company IS BACK TOMORROW — AND WE’RE DRAWING 3 MORE WINNERS!

Our Food Truck Fundraiser Series continues tomorrow at Bethel Beer and More back in the lot!

And check out what’s up for grabs in our Ride Into the Future raffles:

🥟 THE DUMPLIN! Yes, the hard-to-find collectible Dumplin toy is part of Basket #4! If you’ve been trying to find one, this is your chance.

🎣 $100 Bass Pro Shops Gift Card + hockey bag

🍺 Brews & Bucks Basket featuring $50 in Southern Tier Brewing gift cards

We’re drawing THREE winners tomorrow, but the fun doesn’t stop there.

🛴 RIDE INTO THE FUTURE continues! Grab your tickets for a chance to win our Segway E-Scooter while supporting Period Zero’s youth workforce and leadership programs.

Eat local. Win something awesome. Help us build opportunities for young people.

09/14/2026

Tamar Conner’s Impact Showcase

He wrote the goal. Now he’s doing the work.

This summer, we asked Tamar what he was most proud of.

His answer?

“Being able to scale my business.”

Because Tamar isn’t pretending to be an entrepreneur.

He’s building ConnersCookies

His summer goal was to keep growing. Now his Fall SMART Goal takes it further: Tamar wants more people to know about Conner’s Cookies, and he’s working on the marketing skills it takes to make that happen.

His plan? Create content at least three times a week, consistently promote his business, and watch for something every small-business owner wants:

More people recognizing his name.

And now he gets another chance to put that goal into action.

At the upcoming South Park Recreation Center, Tamar and Wright will be right beside the Period Zero table, selling Conner’s Cookies and introducing his business to the community.

So when you see Tamar in this video, don’t just scroll past this young entrepreneur.

Come meet him.
Ask him about Conner’s Cookies.
Buy some cookies.
Let him tell you about the business he’s building.

This is what we mean at Period Zero when we say:

Passion → Purpose → Action.

We don’t want young people waiting until “someday” to discover what they can do.

We give them opportunities to start now.

And if you believe young people deserve more opportunities like this, we’re looking for our first 25 people to give just $10 a month to Period Zero.

$10 a month. 25 people. Real opportunities.

Become one of our first 25 monthly donors →⁠

Come meet Tamar and Wright at South Park — and see what happens when young people are given room to lead.

09/13/2026

Daytona learned how to build websites this summer.
Her next goal? Fire ground support.

What makes Daytona's story compelling is the range of what she's exploring. This summer, she was proud that she learned to work with websites and connect with people in different industries.

Then we asked what she wanted to keep developing.

Her answer: firefighting.

And her reason is wonderfully straightforward:

“I really like to help my community.”

By October, Daytona wants to earn her ProBoard for fire ground support, and she's already identified her first step: studying for the written test.

That's Period Zero.

We're not trying to tell young people what their path should look like.

We're giving them opportunities to explore, meet people, build skills and discover what matters to them.

For Daytona, technology and professional connections were part of her summer.

Now her next step is service to her community.

Passion → Purpose → Action.

We're looking for 25 people willing to invest $10 a month so we can keep giving young people like Daytona the room to explore what's possible — and the support to pursue what they discover.

25 people. $10 a month.

Will you be one of our first 25?

https://periodzero.ai/donate/

09/12/2026

We asked Alexis Schlott about her design skills.
She answered the question...and designed the assignment.

Because apparently a plain index card was never an option.

Stars. Flowers. Doodles. Pink ink. A little art everywhere.

That’s Lexi.

This summer, Lexi took that natural creativity and started turning it into a real skill through her role helping with Period Zero’s social media.

When we asked what she was proud of, she wrote about learning design skills for her social media role.

Then we asked our NextGen Leaders what they wanted to do next.

Lexi already knew.

She wants to keep developing her social media design skills, become even better at creating posts, and continue learning through Canva lessons and practice.

And yes, she decorated that answer too.

This is what we mean when we talk about moving from Passion → Purpose → Action.

Sometimes it starts with a young person who can't resist drawing on the assignment.

Then you give her something real to design.

You trust her with an actual role.

And suddenly she's not just someone who likes art.

She's becoming a designer.

This fall, we're looking for 25 people who will invest $10 a month in giving young people more opportunities to discover what they can do and then actually do it.

25 people. $10 a month.

Will you be one of our first 25?

https://periodzero.ai/donate/

09/11/2026

Sometimes growth looks like taking the stage.
Sometimes it looks like realizing: “People can count on me.”

Over the summer, Charlie Rafalowski discovered something important about himself.

He can manage his responsibilities.

He can organize what needs to get done.

He can finish his work on time.

And other people can rely on him.

When Charlie reflected on his summer with Period Zero, he specifically identified finishing his work on time, improving his time management and growing his critical-thinking skills as things he was proud of.

His fall goal builds directly from that experience. He wants to continue developing his reliability and organizational skills, including creating systems for keeping track of the things he's responsible for.

That may sound like a small thing.

It isn't.

Confidence isn't always standing in front of a room.

Sometimes confidence is a young person discovering:

“I can handle this.”

That's the kind of growth your support makes possible at Period Zero.

We're looking for 25 people willing to give just $10 a month so we can continue creating real opportunities for young people to discover what they're capable of. Tina Failla Rafalowski

Will you be one of our first 25?
https://periodzero.ai/donate/