SparkPoint Articles

The entire SparkPoint team would like to congratulate Raul Amaya on being selected as our new SparkPoint Coordinator. Raul has served as the SparkPoint Staff Assistant for over 6 years, but in his new role he will be providing support to our students and local community around financial capability, food resources and housing resources.  He ...

Career Technical Education (CTE) students at Skyline College are encouraged to apply for the Grove Scholars Program! Approximately 25 students (new and renewal) will be selected to become part of the Grove Scholars Program and receive an award of up to $2,000. Scholars will participate in the following services: financial education and coaching, career counseling, and additional services as ...

COVID-19 forced the SparkPoint Food Pantry to close in March 2020 and it remained closed for 2 full years. We re-launched this service this past spring and we are excited to share that from between March 22 and June 30, 2022, we distributed 33,487 pounds of groceries. Unlike our Drive-Thru Grocery Distribution, the SparkPoint Food Pantry ...

SparkPoint at Skyline College is currently accepting scholarship applications for 25 Career and Technical Education (CTE) students for the Fall 2022 cohort. Grove Scholarship applications are available online at skylinecollege.edu/sparkpoint and are due by 3:00 p.m. on September 14, 2022. Eligible students will be selected for the program based on three short personal statements that describe who they ...

For the Spring 2022 Sustainability Blitz, Climate Corps Fellows teamed with Art instructor Teresa Cunniff to give an inspiring presentation on Sustainable Urban Design to the students of Art 401, Three-Dimensional Design. After the presentation, students collaborated to create bio-receptive, modular blocks as they learned to use tools and equipment in the Sculpture Studio. In this project, Art 401 ...

We are very pleased to announce that the SparkPoint Food Pantry officially re-opened on Tuesday, March 22, 2022! Until further notice, our food pantry will serve only students and will operate by appointment only. Due to capacity limits, we are not able to serve community members or drop-ins at this time.  The Wednesday Drive-thru Grocery Distribution ...

SparkPoint at Skyline College and the Business Division, in partnership with United Way of the Bay Area’s Earn it! Keep it! Save it!, are excited to announce free income tax preparation assistance for students, faculty, staff and community members (households that earned less than $57,000 in 2021). Taxes will be prepared every Saturday, February 26 – ...

This past week marked the 70th Skyline College Free Drive-Thru Community Market! At this most recent weekly grocery distribution event we served 987 families (down from 1,015 families from the previous week).  We are now officially the largest grocery distribution partner of Second Harvest of Silicon Valley, which means that we are currently distributing more ...

The Skyline College Drive-Thru Community Market has distributed over 2.8 million pounds of free groceries since we launched in September 2020, but we couldn’t do it without student volunteer support. We are very excited to announce that this grocery distribution will continue January through May 2022 (no grocery distribution on 1/19/2022), but we need your help ...

This past week marked the 65th Skyline College Free Drive-Thru Community Market! At this most recent weekly grocery distribution event we served 908 families under the leadership of the SparkPoint program and with the support of 25 volunteers from Skyline College and our local community! Volunteer support is crucial to provide this support to our community ...