Team-Up for Youth™ today named Real Options for Kids (ROCK) in Visitacion Valley and Jamestown Community Center in the Mission District of San Francisco as the first-ever recipients of the Louise & Claude Rosenberg Awards for Excellence in Youth Service. The awards, each of which...
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Competitors announced for high-tech urban adventure on May 19th in San Francisco SAN FRANCISCO, CA - Real Options for City Kids (ROCK) released its competitor list for its upcoming Go for Good event to be held on Saturday, May 19th, 2007. Competitors include Esurance,...
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...
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Contact: Barbara Camacho, YNPN Advisory Board Member, 510/681-7899, BarbaraC@compasspoint.org Three Bay Area Young Nonprofit Professionals Honored for Service by YNPN: Curt Yagi, Gwyneth Borden, Lisa Stringer San Francisco, CA - November 7, 2006 - Young Nonprofit Professionals Network (YNPN) is proud to announce that Mayor Gavin...
San Francisco, CA - June 28, 2006 - ROCK Board Member Michelle appeared on 98.1 KISS FM's Morning Show with Renel and Marcus to talk about life on a reality show. "How to Get the Guy," a romantic reality series that follows the trials and tribulations...
San Francisco, CA - June 9, 2006 - ROCK Board Member Michelle appeared on the Ronn Owens (KGO Radio) show to answer questions regarding the upcoming series "How to Get the Guy." "How to Get the Guy," a romantic reality series that follows the trials and...
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...
BY CERISE HENZES The familiar squeak of Nikes on parquet coupled with laughter bouncing off the painted concrete walls of a gymnasium sends me directly back to recess, the highlight of my elementary-school days. But I’m not in my third-grade gym. I’m at the Visitacion Valley...
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...