Prospera Initiativies: News and Events

Donors Unite to Open After School Program at Braddock ES

Prospera Initiatives brought together generous foundations, corporations, and individuals to raise the $35,000 in seed money needed to start a Heritage Language Literacy Club at Braddock Elementary School in Annandale. Founding sponsors include the PNC Foundation, the O’Shaughnessey-Hurst Foundation, the Commonweal Foundation, and the Harriet Dewey McLucas Memorial Fund.

Our VP of Program Development, Stephanie Fillman, trained program staff, ordered books, and provided all the technical details needed to ensure the program’s success. In September 2008 twenty-two third graders and ten tutors from the fifth and eighth grades attended their first Club session. “Excitement is so high throughout the school. The children are so proud of learning to read and write in Spanish. Students stop me in the hallway all the time and ask about joining the program.”, remarked Claudia Trace, the program’s Teacher Leader and a native of Chile who, like many of her students, came to America as a young child and understands the challenges they face.

What’s next? Thanks to a generous grant from the Commonweal Foundation, plans are underway to add one more grade level in January, which will serve an additional twenty readers and ten tutors. But, our work is not done. We must now work to sustain this effort and make the program available to the many students who are waiting to join the program.

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Bilingual Career Fair 2011

Saturday, March 19, 2011
12:00 – 4:00 P.M.

J.E.B. Stuart High School
3301 Peace Valley Lane
Falls Church, Virginia 22044

Latino Middle and High School Students and Parents

Join us for the FREE event to learn more about the many careers available to bilingual professionals.

Presenters from more than 30 organizations will conduct small group workshops to educate Latino youth and help them set career goals. Workshops will be conducted in Spanish.

Organizations will include: State Farm Insurance, Best Buy, Telemundo, the FBI, Fairfax Police and Fire Depts., Georgetown University School of Nursing, George Mason University, PNC Bank, and many more.

Visit the Exhibit Hall to meet successful professionals and learn how you can succeed in many careers.

All students attending the event will receive a free raffle ticket for a chance to win computers and MP3 players donated by Best Buy.

Students and parents please register by:

Online at http://feria.eventbrite.com
Download the registration form and fax to 703-636-7786 (pdf of registration form)
Call 571-278-3996
Send an email to feria@prosperaweb.org

Presenter Information

Presenters please download presenter invitation and respond via email to regla@prosperaweb.org

Presenter Invitation PDF