Quest Foundation has issued a Challenge Grant for $27,000. Join us in our challenge to raise an additional $27,000 which Quest Foundation will match. Once we submit proof of the match, Quest Foundation will issue a check. Bernard and Alba Witkin Charitable Trust has already stepped up to match $10,000, therefore reducing our fundraising goal to $17,000.

The total contribution of $54,000 will go towards supporting key leadership positions at our flagship Tutoring Center! This year 120 students received after school tutoring from six staff members and twenty volunteers daily from 2:30-6pm thanks to your contributions. Please consider giving here so we can continue to provide after school support to 120 families in the Mission!

“Mayor Gavin Newsom is trying to ensure that’s the case in San Francisco”

Watch our Tutoring Center “Start Somethin’”

Our young students talk about why they want to attend college!

Please join us for a special evening as Mission Graduates presents its 3rd annual “You Are an Example to Me” awards celebration!

The “You Are an Example to Me” awards honors individuals who set strong examples and contribute to the success of children and youth from the Mission District. We will be recognizing special youth, parents, business owners, and Mission Graduates community partners.

When: Tuesday, April 20th 6-8:00pm
Where: Vanguard Properties (2501 Mission Street @21st Street)
RSVP: Please RSVP by Monday, April 19th for your complimentary tickets. Email your name and # of people attending to Art at art@missiongraduates.org or call 415.864.5205 x12.

Kevin Ramirez is a college freshman at City College of San Francisco, Mission High alum, and participant in MG’s newest College Bound Ambassador program.  As an “Ambassador”, Kevin tutors and mentors 5th graders at Marshall Elementary.  His role includes sharing his personal journey with his mentees as the first in his family to attend college. Read more »

Click here to see some of the youngest members of last Thursday’s Day of Action protest. Nearly 100 parents, teachers, students and volunteers set out from Marshall Elementary/Mission Graduates Tutoring Center to join the main march at 16th and Mission, and eventually to City Hall.

As a rule, libraries don’t mix with muddy little hands. But that’s what’s happening at the San Francisco Public Library’s Mission Branch, where a Teaching Garden opened this fall. With the help of a designer and a gardening instructor, interim Children’s Room Manager Lia Hillman has turned an unused patio into a unique resource to teach sustainable urban…

Mr. Josh, the 1st Grade Coordinator at our beloved Tutoring Center, led a web design elective through which students created personal web pages and experimented with html code.  These computer whiz kids call themselves the TechnoFreaks.  Check out their work here!

 On Sunday, December 6th, Mission Graduates’ Parent Partner Director, Ario Salazar, participated on the Nuestros Niños radio program, hosted by Dra. Marisol Muñoz on 100.7FM.  The topic was The Role of Parents as Spokespersons, Advocates and Protectors in the Life of Nuestros Niños.  Listen here!

Here is the link to the great read about the Tutoring Center/Mission Graduates Garden Project!