Igniting Potential

Igniting Potential is our newest philanthropy that launched in 2024. This philanthropy promotes the disruption of generational poverty by giving targeted educational services to typically underserved students. To this end, ALCV partners with the AVID (Achievement through Individual Determination) program at San Clemente and San Juan Hills High Schools. ALCV offers monetary support to pay for SAT/ACT fees, teacher training, and bus transportation for college visits. ALCV members also directly engage with students through various workshops, career presentations and mock interviews. With such a variety of programming, each grade level receives some level of service. This program continues to evolve as needs are identified. More info about the San Clemente High School AVID program.

Erin Dollar, San Clemente High School AVID Program Director, shared “The generosity of ALCV has enabled us to schedule three college field trips, a community builder trip, funding for two staff members to attend AVID summer training, as well as pay for each of our AVID juniors to take the SAT on campus. This is what ‘closing the opportunity gap’ looks like and will be instrumental in bridging the gap for these students to see that college and career opportunities are in fact attainable. Additionally, ALCV has donated hours of time to coach AVID seniors through mock interview panels and give sophomores a look into a range of careers through professionals as guest speakers.”

ALCV also provided hands-on support by assisting with mock interviews, giving seniors practice for scholarship interviews. Additionally, we secured professionals to speak with sophomore students about careers. Our goal is to begin this program at SCHS and expand to other schools as funding permits.

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The annual impact of this program is $20-30K.

Igniting Potential

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