Fundraising

Serve-A-Thon 2009

Cesar Chavez Day was a special day of service for YES volunteers. Our annual organizational fundraiser/service day was held on March 31st, a celebration of the birthday of Cesar Chavez. Almost 70 volunteers gathered at Alice Birney Elementary School in Eureka. They not only worked directly with the students in classroom based projects, but also engaged the students in playing cooperative games, working in the school’s garden plots, hunting for litter on the school grounds, and assisted with or became the audience for a short play.

Children Plant Their Own Seeds

Parachute Game

Weeding In The School Plots

Litter Gitters!

The play chronicled important highlights in Cesar Chavez’s life and was orchestrated by two YES programs, A.R.T. and Puentes, with speaking parts by Alice Birney students. Add photo here:

Alice Birney Students Speak Their Parts

Because Alice Birney could not accommodate all the volunteers eager to assist, approximately 20 other volunteers participated in service at Potowat Indian Health Village. What a spectacular day of service it was! Donations that were collected from the mailers sent by YES volunteers brought in more than $5000. A major use of those funds is to cover the fingerprinting cost for YES volunteers to assure they are properly screened to provide service to our vulnerable populations.

Supporting Y.E.S

Y.E.S. Programs survive through the generosity of many individuals and businesses. We welcome and greatly appreciate your financial contributions at any time. If you would like to discuss how you could best assist us to continue our services to the community while building the leadership capacity of young people, please contact our executive director, Annie Bolick-Floss, (707) 826-4965, or amb2@humboldt.edu

Cookbook Project

"A Taste of Humboldt" cookbook was made possible because local people believed in our goal: providing scholarships to those students who spend long hours in direct community service. Any profits from the sale of this book will be used to support student program directors of Youth Educational Services.

The Marjorie Fitzpatrick Cookbook Scholarship Fund

Why a cookbook project?

A picture of
"A Taste of Humboldt" cookbook
[Photo by Kyana Taillon]

The organization and implementation of the many Y.E.S. programs are achieved only through the hard work of the numerous student directors who initiate and orchestrate each program. Being a student director takes a great deal of time from an already busy student schedule. All proceeds derived from the sales of "A Taste of Humboldt" form a scholarship fund that enables student directors to continue in their roles when faced with economic hardship. The Fund has been named in honor of a long standing Y.E.S. community advisor who served as a founding member of the group that developed the cookbook.

While the primary goal of the cookbook has been to support Y.E.S., the cookbook also supplies the reader with a great way to get to know some of the people that are Humboldt County. From the original Native American inhabitants of California's North Coast to its newest Southeast Asian immigrants, many peoples and cultures have left their handprints on Humboldt County. The Italians, Portuguese, Scandinavians, Swiss, Yugoslavs and Nova Scotians who left their home lands, as well as pioneers who moved westward, brought diversity and enrichment to their new communities. Their stories, along with maps and vintage photographs are collected here with hundreds of their recipes.

To order a cook book, you will need to download, print and mail this form. To print the cookbook order form you will need to download and install Adobe Acrobat Reader.