Junior Leadership Development Program

On February 22, 2018, Umpqua Bank honored the Junior Leadership Development Program (JLDP) with the grant of $2,500 from its Community Giving Fund to help support the non-profit organization’s work with students who are identified as being at-risk of not graduating from high school. A primary goal of the Umpqua Community Giving Fund is to aid youth up to age 18 in achieving high school graduation, followed with a clearly defined post-secondary path toward college, tech and career readiness. Umpqua Community Giving Fund only accepts proposals from direct-service programs that seek to achieve these goals. Over the last six years, JLDP has worked with more than 300 youth throughout Butte and Tehama counties, and has successfully guided 96% of them to timely high school graduation, with more than 85% of them going on to enroll in post-secondary educational pursuits. Umpqua Bank has been a significant supporter of JLDP in that work for the last three years, and is a valued community partner. We at JLDP are deeply grateful to Umpqua Bank for their confidence in, and support of our stated mission: to ensure that every youth is provided the skills to overcome situational obstacles, and given the resources and opportunity to achieve the utmost in their personal, educational and community membership goals.

Chico Kiwanas Club had the great pleasure of having our CKI, Cirlce K International Captital Division Lt. Govenor to our monthly breakfast meeting at Beatnicks, David Duy Ngo, represeting North Regions, CKI putting in over 30,000 hours of community service this year to date! CKI, developing college and university students as a global network, responsible citizens, leadership and community service. For more information go to www.kiwanas.org

Butte College to offer Free Tuition - Fall Semester. Donations coming locally, including CEO Ken Grossman of Sierra Nevada Brewery. See more info. at www.actionewsnow.com

A shout out as well to Mountain Mikes Pizza on Mangrove Avenue, who also lent a hand in our Bidwell Jr After School Mentor Program launch last Tuesday. A pizza party! Go to 1722 Mangrove or call direct at (530) 893-1923

Hats off to a Caleb, a well deserved former high school graduate from Fairview High School, working very hard on his own here at work, at least 25 hours a week and starting his college career at Butte College, supported by a Chico Lions Club $500 student academic scholarship! From Caleb to Chico Lions Club, "Thank you, I am very appreciative of this support."!!

Our first day at Bidwell Jr. High as an after school mentor program was launched with a pizza party! Thank you Round Table Pizza for your donations! For more information go to their Pillsbury road location, 2201, at the Almond Orchard Mall. Call direct at 891-1200 - Opens at 11 am

Celebrating Martin Luther King Day. " I Have A Dream."

The Chico Kiwana's, (I'm a recent member) hit the ground running this week in Gridley, their K-Kids Program - Elementary students age 6-12 in for some volunteer, hands on community activities. Kiwana's is a "Tour De Force" encompasing six customized community outreach programs targeting our local schools! For more information on K-Kids, go to k- kids.org

Very excited to note a valuable partner recognized in this issue of the CNR, Chico News and Review - "Whom To Watch" Casey Taylor, Superintendent of Achieve Charter School. She herself a former at-risk teen, giving back to her local community in Paradise! A K-8th program that will add a high school this year, admitting ninth graders, a curriculum focus. Achieve offers two pathways: Entrepreneurship or tech/information. For more information, go to this weeks CNR!

As a Community Based non profit, it is annual year Grants such as Rabobank, our second allocation within the last two years that allow us to continue in our efforts supporting our local,at -risk seniors and early intervention into the Jr.High Schools as well. Thanks Branch Manager Kari Medina , East Avenue Branch and Durham representative as well for this great photo op. A $2,000 Grant!! For more information on Rabobank go to 237 W. East Ave or call direct at (800) 942-6222

Habitat For Humanity came as a guest at Chico's Kiwanas Club, one of JLDP's partners, where our students joined previously helping low income folks build affordable homes! They are celebrating 25 Years! Completed 10 houses from 1996 to 2006. Just this year, by 2019, their first mortgage will be paid off..Congratulations to all! For more information go to www.buttehabitat.org

Many thanks to Rabobank, East Avenue, a $2,000 Grant!! Very timely to our two new spring semester launches; Ridgeview Continuation High School and Bidwell Jr After School Program. It's going to be a great 2018 year!