Claremont Impact

The Bright Prospect Scholar Support Program The Bright Prospect Scholar Support Program is a non-profit charitable organization which supports low income high school students in the Pomona, California area. The program provides students with the support and guidance to flourish in higher education, as well as the financial resources to attend a 4-year university. Students begin their college-bound programming as freshmen in high school, with mentoring, practical leadership training, tutoring and coaching, and college application guidance. Once in college, Bright Prospect scholars receive continued financial support and encouragement from the program. Since the program’s founding in 2001, scholars have been accepted to highly regarded institutions, including Stanford, Amherst, UCLA, and MIT. The program has grown to accept approximately 38 new students per year and strives to establish bright futures for its students in the future. For more information, check out the Bright Prospect website at http://www.brightprospect.org/, or this video about the program http://virtualsitevisit.org/vsv/brightprospect

Pomona College Worker’s Support Committee The Worker’s Support Committee (WSC) is a student group dedicated to providing a voice for Pomona staff workers within the college community. To accomplish this, the WSC puts on events that facilitate and encourage worker-student interaction, communicates with the college administration about worker’s concerns, and raises awareness on campus about worker’s rights. Each Friday, WSC organizes worker appreciation breakfasts at which student volunteers serve breakfast to staff workers. Challah for Hunger is proud to partner with the WSC by providing challah and volunteers for these worker appreciation breakfasts. The WSC meets every Sunday at 1:30pm in SOCA Lounge at Pomona College and always welcomes new members! For more information about worker’s rights issues, visit: http://www.lni.wa.gov/workplacerights/ To read about a recent worker’s rights case that the WSC was involved with, visit: http://www.tsl.pomona.edu/new/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&...

Proyecto Jardin/Boyle Heights CSA Proyecto Jardin runs a Community Supported Agriculture (CSA) garden in Boyle Heights, Los Angeles. The garden’s mission is to promote healthy community living by educating community members about food and agriculture and to involving them in the food production process. The garden is run by local urban farmers, food justice advocates, traditional healers, educators, artists, physicians, nutritionists, public health advocates, and students, and promotes sustainable local farming and food systems. In addition to gardening, Proyecto Jardin sponsors education sessions about food and farming and cooking classes for adults and youth. Testimony from Emery Donovan, Community Partnerships coordinator for Pomona CfH: “On October 24, 2009, six students from Challah for Hunger volunteered at Proyecto Jardin's booth at the fourth annual Healthy Neighborhoods Festival in downtown L.A., sponsored by the Center for Healthy Communities. The volunteers helped run the three interactive cooking workshops that Proyecto Jardin was featuring at the fair. The workshops were designed to teach children about healthy food as well as give them the opportunity to be engaged in the process of preparing and cooking such food. One station featured a lesson about the six parts of a plant, which was followed by the opportunity to chop up various vegetables for a salad that the kids got to sample at the end of the workshop. Proyecto Jardin employees repeatedly told Challah volunteers how happy they were that they had come and how the stations wouldn't have run nearly as smoothly without Challah's help. At the end of the day, everyone said goodbye with hugs. Challah hopes to continue this volunteering with PJ by sending out volunteers to help with the cooking workshops for adults that happen every Sunday at the garden.”