Donate to ALC

Hello Friends of the ALC:

In only a few weeks 90 youngsters will step through the doors of the Alternative Learning Community (ALC). These middle schoolers will be looking for a second chance, an opportunity to turn the struggle they faced in other schools into success at ALC. We’ll be there for them with small class sizes, individualized attention, powerful teaching, and wrap-around support services. A central part of ALC’s vision is our environmental/outdoor education theme, and we need your support to make this happen.

Your donation to ALC will go directly to our outdoor/environmental education programs and will impact all students. Donations of any size helps fund our engaging opportunities described below.

There are two ways you can become a founding supporter of ALC.

1.) Send a check payable to “ALC/OSSF” to:
Alternative Learning Community
9736 Lawlor St.
Oakland, CA 94605

2.) Donate on-line by going to http://www.alcoakland.com/supportalc

(ALC works with our partnering fiscal agent, Oakland Small Schools Foundation. All donations are tax deductible and go directly to outdoor/environmental programs at ALC.)

Here’s just a few examples of how you support will be used:
In the first weeks of school, all ALC students will have the opportunity to build trust and community on a ropes course in San Francisco.
We have scheduled outdoor and environmental adventures that make learning engaging and relevant, such as an overnight sixth grade trip to a sustainable farm near Half Moon Bay.
Work is underway to build a bicycle livery on-site that can be used by any class for project-based learning excursions.
ALC is partnering with EarthTeam to do community service learning creek restorations nearby.
All classes will engage students in rigorous learning through this theme.

Already mountains of work have been done, but we are not even at the beginning of this adventure. To realize the transformative and empowering impact ALC can have on our youth and community, we need your engagement and support. Even a small gift of $10 or $20 helps and shows us that you stand with us in our mission of turning struggle to success for Oakland youngsters.

Thanks, in advance, for your support and partnership in our critically important mission! Please feel free to contact me directly if you have any questions.

Onward,

~ Dennis