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Here is a list of some of the organizations we have helped in the past. If you have a group that you think would benefit from the chance to try rock climbing, please contact the Touchstone location in your area. Community Groups in June
Albany YMCA
Met West HS Boy Scouts Oakland International HS College Prep Ascend OUSD Bancroft Middle School Womens Empowerment Options for Youth Wind School Wildlink, Inc.  Community Groups in May
Learning Skills Recovery Prog.
TK Youth Foundation Mission Graduates Guadalupe Elementary Paul Revere Mission Graduates A.P. Giannini Wind School Womens Empowerment Options for Youth R.O.C.K. LPS College Park Lighthouse School College Prep Seneca Center Community Groups in April
Emilio Zapata St. Academy
Barack Obama Academy Oakland Parks & Rec JCC Jefferson High School Mission Graduates SF School Newcomer High School Thurgood Marshall High School Community Groups in March
Casa at Rooftop
Leadership H.S. Mission H.S. Friendship House Visions Unlimited Wind School Womens Empowerment Options for Youth Asian Community Mental Health Services Marin Horizon Middle School Tk Foundation OSCAR/ Homeward Bound Castro Valley High Elmhurst Community Prep Oakland Tech Met West HS Seneca Center St. Elizabeth HS Brothers on the Rise Community Groups in February
SF Islamic School
International High School Blue Dolphin Swim Team Woodside Mission Graduates SFSU Big City Mountaineers Girl Ventures Emiliano Zapata St. Acad. Oakland Unity HS Castro Valley HS Joaquin Miller School Homeward Bound Sunrise School Advent Group Seneca Center Wind School Womens Empowerment Community Groups in January
Mustard Seed
Wind School Visions Unlimited Womens Empowerment RES (Redefining Educational Services) Success Boy's Troop 38 City of Dreams Girl Scouts Mission Graduates CASA (Children's After-school Arts) Community Groups in December
Impact Academy
Roosevelt Middle School Boy Scouts Marchus School Visions Womens Empowerment Wind School CHARIS Lowel High School School of the Arts Impact Academy Mission Graduates Community Groups in November
Wind School
Womens Empowerment CHARIS Girl's Troop 31824 San Ramon Valley School District Community Groups in October
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Grow through Adventure Rita da Cascia Outward Bound Brandeis-Hillel Day School Mission Graduates Boys & Girls Club Seven Tepees Real Options for City Kids Leadership Public Schools Oakland Parks & Rec Castro Valley HS BCM Leadership Group San Ramon Valley School District Wind School Womens Empowerment Gift Certifcate Donations
Each month Touchstone gyms not only host numerous low income and non-profit groups, but we also donate many more gift certificates to numerous non-profit groups. Here is a partial list of the groups we sent donations to during the month of September.
Courtyard School Mission Oaks Park and Recreation Concert with a Cause United Animal Nations SF Bike Coalition Lycee Francis Yosemite Facelift 2009 Victory Christian School Knights of Columbus Brett Harte Elementary C.K. McClatchy High School Curtis Park Wine Tasting and Silent Auction Sutter Roseville Medical Center Foundation Solano Midnight Sun Foundation Joaquin Miller Elementary: Oakland, CA Saint Joseph / Notre Dame: Alameda, CA Claremont Middle School: Albany, CA Ocean View Elementary: Oakland, CA Wild & Scenic Environmental Film Festival San Francisco to Uganda project Primos Run for Education Community Youth Center Montair Elementary School St. Mary School Mountain View Elementary Northgate High School Athletic Boosters Sequoia Elementary School Mary Farmer Elementary School Highlands Elementary Community Groups in September
Rita de Cascia
GWHS Girls JV Volley Ball Team Wind School Big City Mountaineers Rainbow Community Center Community Groups in August
Mission Neighborhood Center
Camp Here We Come Glide-Family, youth and children center Asian America Recovery Wind School Women's Empowerment Yes City of Oakland Parks & Rec. Scout Troop #16 Educulture Monument Crisis Center Community Groups in July
Family Stress Center
Wind School Women's Empowerment Bayview YMCA Buchanan YMCA Girls Afterschool Academy Phillip Burton Afterschool Program Potrero Neighborhood Center Westside Community Services Japanese Community Youth Council CUPC Summer Camp Buchanan YMCA Glide Foundation Aim High YMCA Community Groups in June
Mustard Seed
Options for Youth Wind School Albany YMCA Hayward Youth & Family Services Troop 124 Seneca Center RES (Redefining Educational Services) Success Creative Arts Richmond YMCA Bayview YMCA Community Groups in May
Real Options for City Kids
Impact Arts & Tech Ecole Bilingue Leadership Public School Girl Scout Troop #31685 Impact Academy Jewish Community Center Big City Mountaineers OPR Outdoor Adventures Ascend Alliance Academy LPS @ College Park BCM College Prep Big City Mountaineers Castro Valley HS Womens Empowerment Mustard Seed Options for Youth Impact Academy of Arts Civic Center Secondary School International Studies Academy Mission Graduates -Marshall Elementary Jump Start LYNC-Linking Youth Nuturing Community Girl Scouts (Alamo) Cornerstone Community Groups in April
Oakland Tech High School
Mission High School OMI Beacon Center Girls Inc. YMCA Seneca Center Girls Scout Troop 2907 Brothers on the Rise Oases Womens Empowerment Options for Youth Mustard Seed Visions Wind School Community Groups in March
Lycee Francais
Rita da Cascia LYNC-Linking Youth Nuturing Community Paul Revere after-school program Guadalupe Elementary Leadership High School El Ceritto Girl Scouts Oakland Tech High School Next Generation Oakland Parks and Rec Castro Valley High School Corpus Christi Elementary Jewish Community Center Joaquin Miller Elementary Womens Empowerment Mustard Seed Options for Youth Visions Community Groups in February
Castro Valley High School
Davis Street Family Resource Center Girl Ventures Seneca Center Afterschool Jewish Community Center Willard Middle School City of Dreams Life Project Albany Girls Scouts Piedmont Scouts-troop #4 Womens Empowerment Mustard Seed Options for Youth RES (Redefining Educational Services) Success Girl Scouts Mission Graduates Cathedral School BACR @ Paul Revere Bridgemont Community Groups in January
St. Theresa Church
St. Paul's Episcopal Jewish Community Center Alliance Academy Big City Mountaineers Marchus School Sunrise School Rita da Cascia Girl Scouts CASA SF Youth Work Boy Scout Troop 1076 Mt. Shadows Expedition Boy Scout Troop 100 Boy Scout Troop 31291 Groups Served in 2008 at the Touchstone Gyms
Here is a list of all the community groups that received a discounted or free event at one of the Touchstone Gyms.
Aim High Albany Kid's Corner Albany YMCA Alcosta Center Alice Fong Yu Elementary Allendale School Alliance Academy Alvarado School American Gateway Asian Communites for Reprodcutive Justice Asian Immigrant Women Advocates Auburn Teens Banot Camp Bentley Upper School Berkeley Montesorri Berkeley Teen Camp Berkeley YMCA Bessie Carmichael School Big Brothers Big City Mountaineers Boys and Girls Club Boy Scouts Brandeis Hillel Day School Brett Harte Middle School Brownies Cargan JCC California Academy of Sciences Camp Gan Israel Cascade Canyon School Castro Valley High School Cesar Chavez Chabot School Chinatown Youth Community Center Citizen School Albany Teen Center City of Dreams Cleveland Elementary School Climb Out of Homelessness College Prep Colombia Park Cornerstone Creative Arts School Cub Scouts CUPC Deaf + Early Academic East Bay Conservation Corps Edna Brewer Middle School Emeryville Community Services Families First French School Full Life Church Future Leaders Institute Gateway High School Giannini School Gilman Rec Center Girl Scouts Girl Ventures Girls After School Academy Girls Inc. Glide Church Good for Kids Foundation Grow Through Adventure Guadalupe Elementary Habitat for Humanity Hamilton Elementary School Home Away from Homelessness Home Project Impact High School Integrated Community Serives Japanese Community Youth Council Jewish Community Center June Jordan High School Kaiser Elementary Kids in Motion Kid's World KZD Armenien School La Perouse Leadership Public School LeConte Community Kidz Lick -Aim High Life Program Lighthouse Community Charter School Lincoln Child Center Linking Youth Nurturing Community LYNC Marin Academy Marin Horizon School Marin Primary and Middle School Marin Youth Leadership Program Marina Middle School Met West High School Miraloma Playground Mission Girls Mission Graduates Mission High School MLK Middle Schl Mustard School Mustard Seed Native American Health Center NCSY New Door Ventures Novato Youth Oakland International HS Oakland Leaf HS Oasis High School Options for Youth PAC Parchester Community Center Piedmont Middle School Potrero Hill Neighborhood House Presidio YMCA Project Avary Raphael House Real Options for City Kids Richmond District YMCA Rita de Cascia Ross Valley Nursery School Sacred Heart San Jose Job Corp. San Raphael Outdoor Adventure Club Sea Crest School Seneca Center Seven Tepees SF Friends School SF Youth Works Sherman Aim High Sky Lab Sports 4 Kids -Fairmount Elementary Sports 4 Kids -Sanchez Elementary St. John's Educational St. John's Tutoring St. Paul's Episcopal Stepping Stones Stownstown YMCA Sunny Hills Swim Neptune Tenderloin After-School Program The SF School Urban School Venture Crew 148 Visions Vista Center West County Child Services Wind School Wolfe Center Womens Empowerment World of Peace YMCA Young Life Youth Empowerment School Youth Health Center Youth Leadership Circle Oakland Parks and Rec Visits GWPC Touchstone member and OPR staff, John Tornatore-Pili, helps the kids tie in. Our program "Outdoor Adventures" is a City of Oakland Parks and Recreation program created with funding from the Raiders Surcharge program and a grant from the National Recreation and Park Association program "Teens Outside!" We're specifically targeting 4th and 5th graders at several of the local recreation centers and schools in Oakland. Our Fall session is comprised of hiking, kayaking, canoeing and rock climbing. The sessions will culminate in an overnight excursion to a Bay Area nature destination and may include Tomales Bay, Mt. Diablo, Mt. Tamalpais and the Sacramento River. The demographics of the students who will be involved in our program tend to be low-to-middle class income, single parent homes with limited funding. Some of the youth in our programs are even from poverty-level homes that may never have a chance to participate in recreation activities, such as rock climbing, if they were not given this opportunity. The students that we are targeting participate in very low amounts of physical activity. The school district only provides them with 30 minutes a week of Physical Education curriculum. Our program is hoping to follow in the footsteps of similar No Child Left Inside programs to help combat developmental, social and medical problems that can arise through a lack of proper physical activity and nature-deficit disorders. Many of these students suffer from illnesses or conditions related to a lack of physical fitness and health; such as asthma, obesity and lack of endurance. Most of them suffer greatly from being city-bound and have not had the chance to experience adventure recreation, such as rock climbing, boating or hiking. Our program's goal is to open their eyes to other forms of activity that they may have never been introduced to. Rock climbing is an activity that is chock full of challenges, both internally and externally. Being involved in various day camps every summer for the last ten years has shown me how much activity and challenges these students need and aren't getting. Unfortunately, many of the recreation centers don't have the space needed for picking up the slack -- our program is hoping to alleviate this problem. By bringing these students to the Great Western Power Company, we're hoping to create an atmosphere of group dynamics and self-discovery for our students. Through participation in group and individual physical challenges, youth participants develop team-building, goal-setting, problem-solving and decision-making skills along with leadership, trust and self-esteem. We're hoping to help foster a desire in these students and help them find new activities that they want to be a part of and want to continue participating in.  Personally, I loved outdoor activities when I was a little kid and my parents fostered that love as much as they could. When I was in elementary school, my mom brought me to a rock climbing gym after I showed interest and I've had a love for climbing ever since. With our program, we're hoping to instill a life-long interest in outdoor recreation and physical fitness and all it takes is giving them the opportunity to try. Community Groups that visited Mission Cliffs -Summer '08
Seneca Youth Group Visits DRG this Summer"The Seneca Center sustains children and families through the most difficult times of their lives." -From the Seneca Center Website This summer Diablo Rock Gym had the pleasure of teaching 17 Seneca Center staff members how to tie a figure 8 knot and belay safely. With their new found climbing knowledge the staff were able to bring in 30 kids to the gym where we hosted them for a morning of fun and climbing. For most of these kids it was their first time climbing and a nice distraction from a sometimes hectic life. Oakland Internation High School: Recent Immigrants Get a Chance at Climbing  Touchstone Climbing – GWPC and Ironworks A new, exciting adventure for recent immigrants! Often the end of the year is the most challenging time of the year for teachers. Everyone is tired and with summer around the corner, the students are very distracted! Our last three weeks of school ended up being exciting, engaging and truly fun thanks to our daily climbing adventures! Because our students are all immigrants who are learning English, helping each other climb brought together teenagers from different cultures and backgrounds. Through the common language of visual/physical cues and rock climbing terms, they learned to trust each other and rally towards a common goal. After each climb, our students came down with gigantic grins and sparkles in their eyes from the adrenaline and pride in making it all the way to the top! One of our students even began to overcome his fear of heights. Not only did the students bond, build trust in each other, and rally one another on, but they gained confidence in interacting with other people in the community. Each time we went to the rock gym, Touchstone staff members were enthusiastic and ready to help our students take their belay tests. The staff members were constantly patient, supportive, and welcoming to our large group. We, the teachers and students at Oakland International High School, are grateful for the accommodations that Touchstone, the gym managers, and staff members made that allowed our students to have this educational and truly rewarding experience. Some things that our students said or wrote about climbing at Oakland GWPC and Berkeley Ironworks: • “I never thought I could do it!” • “I made it!” • “He doesn’t speak very much English, but he was the best belayer!” • “Climbing lets me let go of all my energy.” • “I feel so good after I climb!” • “I feel strong and powerful now.” • “It’s so fun to be up high – I really like it.” We want to sincerely thank you for your generosity in making this experience possible and touching the lives of so many of our students. Liza Richheimer & Katie Chang Community Groups @ Ironworks - Summer '08
The kids from the Seneca Center came by on August 7th and had a blast climbing on our walls.
TheSeneca Center’s mission is to provide an outstanding and unconditional continuum of care for the most seriously troubled children and their families in Northern California. They were so excited about the trip they sent us some quotes from the kids: Ryan "I liked the part getting to the top." Nicholas "My favorite part was the ropes because when you go down you can moon walk." JJ "I liked climbing because it's scary and it makes your arms tired and you get used to heights." Al "My favorite about climbing was when I was getting cheered on and when I was getting help." Here are some of the other groups from our community that have come by this summer: Future Leaders Institute Albany YMCA Native America Health Center City of Albany Camp Gan Israel Berkeley YMCA Cagan Jewish Community Center Girl's Inc. Berkeley Teen Camp World of Peace American Gateway Montasori School Do you have a group from the community that would like to come in for a life-changing experience? Give us a call, we'll work something out! Community Groups at GWPC - Summer '08 Kids in Motion Oakland Leaf HS Sports 4 Kids Oakland International HS OASES Summer Camp Camp Connections  A Teacher Builds Rapport with Students
Climbing is more than a physical challenge. Its ability to create community is evinced in the crowds that fill the Touchstone gyms on any given evening. People come for the camaraderie and the shared adventure of working on, and solving, climbing sequences. Is it any surprise then that teachers find the same value when they bring their kids to try out rock climbing? GWPC prides itself on providing this amazing experience to teachers, students and underprivileged kids. Here's just one example of a teacher who appreciated what climbing gave to his relationship with his students:
 "My Name is Tim Kelly and for the past two years I have been a middle school teacher at Alliance Academy, a middle school in inner city Oakland. Some of my best memories were taking students to the Great Western Power Company. Lacking a high level of funding, I tried to find extra field trips to take my students on. Rock-climbing has long been a passion of mine and I joined the Oakland gym the day it opened up. GWPC helped me out by offering a highly discounted rate and free gear rentals for my students. Building student-teacher rapports in this after school activity helped me to connect with many of my more challenging students and help them to achieve, both on the wall and in the classroom."  Sacramento Pipeworks Accepts Stewardship Award In June, Sacramento Pipeworks was honored to accept a special recognition award for stewardship from Quinn Cottage Housing. The certificate reads in part: "...for providing access to a healthy environment for those whose commitment to physical fitness also improves their mental, emotional and spiritual well being." Pictured is Pipeworks general manager Vaughn Medford accepting the commendation from Quinn Cottage Housing namesake Bishop Francis Quinn. Floyd l. Marchus School Visits the DRG. In June, Diablo Rock Gym was happy to host two fantastic classes for an end of the school year field trip.The Floyd l. Marchus School in Concord is home to Contra Costa County's Counseling and Education Program (CEP). The CEP provides integrated counseling and special education services for elementary, middle and secondary school students who have been identified with significant emotional and behavioral needs. Dear Andrew, Andy, and Tyler, Wow! What a great experience for our Marchus special education students!! Your love for what you do was very apparent in your willingness to give away your valuable time and expertise to share this challenging and exciting rock climbing experience with our students with emotional issues. The entire experience was awesome! I really appreciated the patience and encouragement you showed. Each child had quality time and lots of opportunities to practice and challenge themselves to go even higher. Best of all, every student was able to feel safe and trust that they were in capable hands. The kids were thrilled with what they were able to accomplish. It was great to see perseverance and problem solving being developed in them as well. We appreciate the generous donation of your gym, your time, and your expertise. In a time when school funds are low and the focus is on test scores and academics, a field trip focused on physical and mental fitness, life skills, and good health means a great deal. Thanks again for your generosity. Sincerely, Janis Colescott Marchus School Teacher  Each students sent in a very thoughtful, colorful, creative, and personal thank you card which was accompanied by this letter from one of their teachers. Aids Ride: Thank You
In June, Touchstone was honored to support 13 members who participated in the 2008 AIDS ride. Touchstone donated $5,300 to support this important cause. Here is a thank you letter from a couple of our members.
Riding in the AIDS Lifecycle was a great experience for both of us. Yay! As soon as we got back we promptly got swept back into our normal routines. Catching up from having beengone has taken longer than I intended. Being back at work and indoors most of the day was awful! And we did take a break from riding, butjust a little one. We’re back to riding on Saturday mornings, though much shorter rides than during training.  Between the two of us (and all of you) we raised $8448.00 for the SF AIDSFoundation. Including your generous donations this event raised a record $11.6 million dollars total to help fund AIDS research as wellas education and support programs. Thank you so very much! Participating in the ride was an amazing experience for us. For me, it was my first endurance event and I wasn’t really sure I could do it until it was done. When I rode into the closing ceremonies was the first time I actually believed I would finish. But I loved being on my bike everyday, especially on such beautiful, scenic roads. The sense of community that developed along the way between roadies and riders and the communities we stopped in is something very special. People often name this sense of community as the “stand-out” part of this event. Having a common goal does a lot to bring otherwise very different people together. The ride also did quite a lot to raise my awareness of AIDS. Having not ever known anyone dealing with HIV or AIDS, I hadn’t ever really looked beyond the statistics. It is much different to be thinking of people living with these diseases than to only think of them dying from it. Thank you so much everyone. We definitely peddled a little farther thinking of you. Quad Buster and the Evil Twins were so much easier knowing you all were rooting for us. Love, Jeanine and Tim Sacramento Pipeworks Community Groups These are just a few of the Sacramento community groups that we host on a regular basis:
Community Groups @ Berkeley Ironworks Students from Oakland's International School
Community Groups at Diablo Rock Gym
Linking Youth Nuturing Communities LYNC and the Peace Keeper's group recently visited Mission Cliffs for a day of climbing, and adventure in the Mission neighborhood.Located in the Potrero Hill area, this group strives to bring the community of at-risk youth together with their local schools, businesses and neighbors utilizing the environment and sports to attract these children. The objectives of this three-year youth program are to broaden student understanding of environmental issues, help them master team building and process leadership skills, and strengthen their ability to make the right choices. Dear Mission Cliffs,  One of the groups we brought to Mission Cliffs was The Peace Keepers from Daniel Webster, a group of children chosen as leaders and representatives of their school. Most of these children had never even seen an indoor climbing wall and even fewer had ever had the chance to actually put the harness on and climb on the walls. The time on the climbing wall and the team building aspects of the experience provided these children with chances to see what they are capable of when exposed to a new and supportive situation. There is no greater thank you than seeing the look of self pride and accomplishment on a child’s face after they climb to new heights on the wall, encouraged on by their classmates, accomplishing a feat they never would have considered possible even just a few hours earlier. It is only through the generosity of organizations such as yours that we will be able to strengthen our community and help our schools graduate happier, healthier, more confident and self-assured students. Thank you so much for the services you provide and enhancing our community by doing so. We look forward to continuing our work together in the future. Sincerely, Ezra Holland, Executive Director of LYNC Community Groups that climbed with us at Mission Cliffs in May-723176.jpg) Girl Ventures KZD Armenien School Cleveland Elementary School Giannini School Guadalupe ElementaryRita de Cascia The SF School June Jordan High School LYNC -Linking Youth Nuturing Communities Sacramento Food Bank & Family Services Hunger in America is an issue near to the hearts of staff at Sacramento Pipeworks. Having hosted many food drives as well as a "cans for climbing" program, we were more than happy to help when asked to hold a series of activity nights for Sacramento Food Bank & Family Services. Program Manager Charles Coger writes: " We appreciated the friendly yet professional belay instruction which our mentors and I received from your staff. I sincerely felt welcomed each evening we arrived with the children. All I had to do was say we were with The Sacramento Food Bank, and your staff was expecting us. I really appreciated the assistance with the kids harnesses. Everyone made us feel welcomed. It made wall climbing such a fun and positive experience for me and our kids who had never climbed before. Now I'm looking forward to coming on a regular basis with my family. Our kids got to see families climb together and I feel that this exposure to wall climbing may become a regular part of their lives too with this type of continual support." He went on to say: "Our kids told us how they enjoyed themselves at your gym. Some said they were exhausted and tired, but they had a lot of fun. We all agree that rock climbing is challenging and exhausting - two great things when considering any activity or exercise. A few of the benefits we felt our kids received are trust, teamwork, self-confidence, achievement, problem solving and self-esteem. All this with a lot of fun and even a little competition while learning the value of helping each other succeed by cheering them on as they climbed. Thank you again and we look forward to a continuing relationship with you..." Sacramento Pipeworks steps up to Skylab As a longtime supporter of nearby Quinn Cottage Housing, Sacramento Pipeworks was happy to step up when their sister group "Skylab" asked for an activity day. Jessica Moon, Youth Development Program Assistant for Skylab writes: "Skylab is a place where youth and creativity can come together to inspire positive community change. SKYLAB believes that youth are valuable assets with important ideas, and therefore seeks to provide a safe, creative, nurturing space in which children can pursue their own interests as well as work together to ask questions and present creative solutions to community problems. The SKYLAB name evolved out of a brainstorming session with a group of teens in which we strove to sum up the concept of "expanding our horizons" (SKY) and "the facility which empowers youth with the tools for this action(LAB)."She goes on to say: "We would like to thank Pipeworks for your contribution to SKYLAB and your commitment to improving the lives of children and families in our community. Your generous dedication to giving has allowed our youth training and climbing experiences that have reshaped their perspective and their self-esteem. Below are just a few examples of the many ways Sacramento Pipeworks has impacted SKYLAB youth:
Thank you again for partnering with us to support underserved youth in realizing their true ability and potential. We look forward to working with you in continuing to empower young people in the community." Community Groups that came to GWPC in May
Community Groups at GWPC Below is a testimonial from OASES who visited the gym in March. OASES is an organization that supports kids in the Oakland Chinatown neighborhood. Most are recent immigrants who struggle with access to English language instruction, poverty and gang violence.Dear Lyn and the Staff at The Great Western Power Company: I cannot thank you all enough for helping us give the girls in our “Girl Power” girls’ sports program an amazing experience at the gym on March 19, 2008. The 20 girls had an incredible time and they are still talking about the trip almost a month later. The most common questions I had prior to the trip were “Will it be scary? What if I fall? Will I get hurt?” Now I only get one question: “When can we go back?” Most, if not all, of the girls would never have had the opportunity to go rock climbing had Lyn and GWPC not worked with our program to create an affordable and extremely enjoyable adventure for the girls. The girls arrived at the gym as a group of small cliques and established friendship circles, but left as a united team of girls, all supporting each other in an activity that most had never done before, or even heard of, prior to their participation in the program and the field trip. The sense of unity and mutual respect between the girls developed during the trip has carried on, and will carry on, long after the trip and even after their participation in the program. Girls who never talked to each other prior to the trip are now playing together regularly at school and still bonding over their shared climbing experience. Everyone at the gym was exceptionally helpful, supportive, and knowledgeable and always had an answer to any question I had while planning the trip (and I had plenty of questions throughout the planning process). The 6 other chaperones and I were impressed by the professionalism of the staff and how everyone helped make a potentially stressful outing as stress-free and fun as possible. The girls, chaperones, and I are so grateful for everything that you all did to help ensure that this was the most incredible field trip of the year. Thank you! Sincerely, Gloria Fong OASES Program Assistant "Girl Power" Girls' Sports Workshop Leader Powered by: |
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At Touchstone Climbing, we are dedicated to being an active member of our neighborhood and to giving back to our community. Since we first opened, it has been a high priority for us to reach out to individuals and groups in the communities that we serve. We are committed to offering youth-at-risk and adults-in-need a unique experience where they can push beyond their own preconceived notions of their limits to explore a potential which might otherwise go unrecognized.
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