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The community poured into the 14th Annual President\u2019s Breakfast yesterday morning from 7:00 a.m. at the South San Francisco Conference Center.\u00a0 The breakfast, hosted by Dr. Regina Stanback Stroud, President and the Skyline College President\u2019s Council, is the primary fundraising event for the President\u2019s Innovation Fund.\u00a0 This fundraising event provides the community the opportunity to learn about the exceptional education offered at Skyline College and how the President\u2019s Innovation Fund awards faculty and staff with seed money for creative programs and services.<\/p>\n
Entrants were welcomed into the center by the Skyline College Men\u2019s baseball players, Vince Lozano, Dabian Canales, Lance Montano, Ismael Orozco, Joey Carney, Nic Bongi, Aldo Severson, Mike Franco and the head Baseball coach, Dino Nomicos.\u00a0\u00a0 Once inside, attendees enjoyed coffee that was provided by City Toyota of Daly City.\u00a0 ASSC President Kayla Razavi provided some inspiring welcoming remarks, indicating the continued support by the ASSC for the President\u2019s Innovation Fund.\u00a0 Event Co-chairs Theresa Proa\u00f1o and Kirsten Pinochi set the stage for a baseball themed event.\u00a0 Donning the Skyline College baseball jerseys, Kirsten and Theresa acknowledged the Spring Musical Performers, Skyline College students \u2013 past and present, faculty, staff, Past Presidents, the College Council, Deans, and administrators for their commitment and dedication.\u00a0 LaMont\u00e8 <\/b>Bishop representing State Senator Mark Leno and Leslie Guevarra and Marc Hershman representing Senator Jerry Hill were acknowledged.\u00a0 Assemblymember Kevin Mullin and his staff Virginia Kroger and Mario Rendon were thanked for their attendance.\u00a0 Rober Chua attended representing Assemblymember Phil Ting.<\/p>\n
SMCCCD Board members in attendance were President Karen Schwartz, David Mandlekern, Richard Holober, and Tom Mohr.\u00a0 Several cities were represented including Councilmember Cliff Lentz from Brisbane, Daly City Mayor David Canepa and Councilmembers Ray Buenaventura and Mike Guigona, Colma Vice Mayor Rae Gonzalez, Pacifica Mayor pro tem Karen Ervin and Councilmember Sue Digre, Redwood City Mayor Jeff Gee, San Bruno Mayor Jim Ruane and Vice Mayor Ken Ibarra, and Carol Bonner, San Bruno City Clerk, South San Francisco Council member Pradeep Gupta.\u00a0 Surrounding School board and Harbor and Water Districts including President Maurice Goodman and Vice President Judy Bush, of the South San Francisco Unified School District; Anne Campbell, Superintendent for the San Mateo County Board of Education; Katherine Zarate Dulany \u2013 trustee for the Jefferson Union High School District; Eric Ruchames trustee from the Pacifica School district; Pietro Parravano of the San Mateo County Harbor District; and Katherine Slater-Carter \u2013 from the Montara Water and Sanitary District<\/p>\n Special mention goes to our Innovation Patrons at the $2,500 level: Bank of the West, City of Brisbane, and Kaiser Permanente.\u00a0 We are fortunate to have the Associated Students of Skyline College continue their support at the Innovation Patron $5,000 level. Our on-going partner, Pacific Gas & Electric Company, hosts this year\u2019s breakfast at the \u201cDream out Loud\u201d $7,500 level. Finally we continue to have to come up with new ways to describe this last sponsor who has hit a grand slam this year!\u00a0 We are so pleased to announce our $35,000 Premiere Presenting Sponsor \u2013 The San Mateo County Community College District Auxiliary Services & Enterprise Operations under the leadership of Vice Chancellor Tom Bauer!\u00a0 The entire list of PIF investors can be viewed here.<\/a><\/p>\n Vice Chancellor Tom Bauer provided inspirational remarks explaining why he and his team are so supportive of the effort.\u00a0 He announced the successful textbook rental program at Skyline College that has now resulted in saving students close to a million dollars since its inception a few years ago.\u00a0 Quoting Trustee Tom Mohr, he said that he was committed to closing the economic and opportunity divide between middle class students and so many community college students.<\/p>\n President Stanback Stroud joined Vice Chancellor Bauer on stage to receive the giant replica of the $35,000 check.\u00a0 Dr. Stroud extended sincere expressions of gratitude to everyone, while acknowledging the executive administrators in attendance, Dr. Sarah Perkins and Eloisa Briones along with the esteemed faculty, staff, students and administrators of Skyline College.\u00a0 Special thanks and acknowledgement was given to Chancellor Ron Galatolo and the SMCCCD team members, Vice Chancellors Nu\u00f1ez, Keller, Blackwood and Bauer. Both presidents of Ca\u00f1ada College and College of San Mateo were in attendance and were thanked for their continued support \u2013 One team indeed.<\/p>\n Current recipients of PIF funds were introduced including:<\/strong><\/p>\n The lights were then dimmed for a touching video created by Brian Kingston of Kingston Media, featuring the PIF Programs.\u00a0 The student speaker in the video, Carolyne Cornett, described her journey and the impact the SparkPoint Center has had on her life.\u00a0 As she finished telling her story from homelessness to hope, there wasn\u2019t a dry eye in the room.\u00a0 She made it apparent that the donations really do make a difference in the lives of the students.<\/p>\n The event culminated in the most creative and fun ask ever\u2026..the cast of Avenue Q, students and puppets sang \u201cGimme your money!\u201d in a way that roused the audience and inspired giving.\u00a0 President Stanback Stroud closed the event by announcing the winers of the baseball themed basket centerpieces that were created by Kirsten Pinochi and the Recology team.<\/p>\n Initial tallies of the receipts are at approximately $118,000 \u2013 shy of the $150,000 goal but an impressive increase over last year\u2019s receipts.\u00a0 If you are interested in making a donation to the President\u2019s Innovation Fund you may still do so at the Foundation Donation Page<\/a>. (*Please note “President’s Innovation Fund” in the comments box to direct your donation to the PIF.)<\/p>\n Special thanks go to Susan Brissenden-Smith, Theresa Tentes and all of the Skyline College staff and administrators that worked behind the scenes to pull off a flawless effort.<\/p>\n Article by Dr. Regina Stanback Stroud | Photos by Raul Guerra<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The community poured into the 14th Annual President\u2019s Breakfast yesterday morning from 7:00 a.m. at<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/skylineshines.skylinecollege.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2400"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/skylineshines.skylinecollege.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/skylineshines.skylinecollege.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skylineshines.skylinecollege.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skylineshines.skylinecollege.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2400"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/skylineshines.skylinecollege.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2400\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/skylineshines.skylinecollege.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2400"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skylineshines.skylinecollege.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2400"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skylineshines.skylinecollege.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2400"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"7555\"](\"http:\/\/skylinecollege.edu\/skylineshines\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2014\/03\/7555.jpg\")
<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a>The purpose of this annual breakfast is to showcase the President\u2019s Innovation Fund programs that have funding from our community partners and to highlight a few.\u00a0 We also took the opportunity to acknowledge donors who make these programs possible.<\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n\n
<\/a>Each year a speaker is selected to serve as spokespersons who will reflect on the impact that the PIF program has had on them.\u00a0 This year we heard from Pcyeta Stroud.\u00a0 Mrs. Stroud is a mentor in the African Diaspora Program and the Program Services Coordinator of the Youth Entrepreneurship Program, founded by the Center for International Trade and Development, now located in the newly formed Global Learning Programs and Services Division.\u00a0 Pcyeta says that her job is to serve students in a way that enables them bring their creative ideas to life in the form of newly created businesses, furthering their own professional development or furthering their education.\u00a0 She told her story, her journey and how PIF not only changed the lives of the students in the YEP program but her life as well.\u00a0 Two student speakers followed her with statements of their journey and the ways YEP has changed their lives.\u00a0 Both students, Sam Uce Veu and Nancy Peng entered and won the YEP Business Plan Competition.<\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n