Unity Prep: Giving Tuesday

[R Shankar]

Summary

1. GIVE BACK: Tomorrow is giving tuesday. Facebook's promise is to match up to 100k per organization/up to $7MM in total starting 8AM EST DEC 3. As you consider your potential donations, we would love to see you support Unity Prep. The note below put together by Vaneeza details our main fundraising goals--please email her with any questions (vanz...@gmail.com) 
1. Facebook Funraiser Link
   
2. Type 'Unity Prep' for nonprofit. 
3. Donate!
2. HELP WRITE COLLEGE ESSAYS: This Saturday we are offering our seniors a final weekend of college essay preparation; a well crafted essay can be the deciding factor for many, and you can be the one to push them over the top. 
1. Where: 584 Driggs Ave Brooklyn, NY 11211
2. When: 12/7 10am-2pm (come as you can, leave when you must)
3. Fill this out if you can attend
   

See you at Trivia 2020 and happy holidays! (trivia warmup: What song topped the billboards exactly 20 years ago? See bottom)

Today is Giving Day and Facebook will be matching up to $7MM in donations! We want to highlight why Unity Prep would benefit from this generous act. 

As you are undoubtedly preparing for the holiday season, we are preparing our first graduating class of 2020 by submitting college applications and filling out FAFSA forms (yikes!)

Please consider supporting opportunities that empower our students beyond-the-school-day by contributing any amount to this campaign and the following causes:

• Subsidize a Summer Math Lab at our Middle School to Support Young Mathematicians in Need of Extra Help!
• $5,000 (pays for two math specialists and software)

• Provide Scholarships for our Students in Financial Need to Engage in Summer Camps and Programs!
• $5,000 (pays for 25 scholarships for $200)

• Subsidize a Summer Reading Lab at our Middle School to Support Young Readers in Need of Extra Help!

• Provide Seed Funding to Pilot a Volunteer College Mentoring Program for our 2020 Graduates in their First Year of College!
• $10,000 (pays for summer staffing in prep for 2020-21 school year)

• Help us Provide In-House, After-School SAT Prep to our Rising Seniors this Spring!
• $10,000 (pays for up to 50 students to experience 6 weeks of after-school SAT prep tutoring)

• Support our Young Artists in creating a Mural for the Exterior of our Building in Collaboration with Community Artists!
• $6,400 (pays for teaching artist for 4 full Saturdays and materials to work with 15-25 students to create 250 square foot mural)
  

Of course, it would be greatly appreciated if you could share this note with your respective networks.  I hope the word can spread as far and wide as possible, so that our full community can come together to support these hardworking, stellar students.

20 years ago today, "What a girl wants" by Christina Aguilera topped the billboard 100. We were surprised too....