By Sarah Meike, R.O.C.K. Administrative Assistant & Volunteer Coordinator He is a Skill Drills volunteer who has consistently shown up on Saturdays throughout the session. I knew I wanted to interview him for our newsletter when he told me one weekend that he valued volunteering at...
By Sarah Meike, Real Options for City Kids Hilda grew up participating in R.O.C.K. programs. She remembers one Skills Drills soccer team in particular that lost… a lot. As an adult, she traces this early lesson of resilience in the face of defeat, to her happiness...
The following speech was written by R.O.C.K.'s Founder, Michelle Groe, and read during R.O.C.K.'s 20 Year Anniversary Celebration on Oct 19, 2014. Dear Fellow R.O.C.K.ers, As I sit 2,000 miles away in my Ann Arbor home, holding R.O.C.K. and its 20 years of history in my mind...
Due to our partnership with United Airlines, you can donate frequent flyer miles to R.O.C.K. Simply head to the United Donate Your Miles page and scroll down until you see R.O.C.K. Did you know that R.O.C.K. can rent a mini-van to transport 7 youth to whitewater rafting...
Real Options for City Kids rewarded for its efforts with city contract San Francisco, CA - September 28, 2009 - With over 15 years of providing quality programs for children and youth in Visitacion Valley, Real Options for City Kids, or ROCK for short, has been...
San Francisco Downtown Magazine By Shuka Kalantari Mention of SF's Visitacion Valley often conjures up bleak images of poverty and crime. Scratch deeper than the surface and a neighborhood progressing towards development, community, and education is revealed. Curt Yagi is a prime mover of this transformation. In...
By Curt Yagi, Executive Director, Real Options for City Kids San Francisco, CA - Michelle is not only a volunteer extraordinaire and Board Member for ROCK, but also the star of ABC's new series "How to Get the Guy". I recently had the opportunity to sit...
Visitacion Valley Grapevine by Curt Yagi, Executive Director, Real Options for City Kids I always loved sports when I was a kid growing up in the Bay Area. Whether it was playing soccer or baseball, watching the Olympics on television or just running around with friends, I...
San Francisco, CA - September 25, 2005 - Emceed by KTVU reporter John Sasaki, Real Options for City Kids (ROCK) celebrated 11 years of providing children in San Francisco's Visitacion Valley with quality youth development programs. Over the years, ROCK has served thousands of children...