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Leer es Poder Student Group formed at Sacred Heart Nativity Schools
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Unique Investment Proves Momentous for Saint Francis High School
March 21 , 2017 | The Valley Catholic
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By Liz Sullivan
A unique investment five years ago has proved momentous for Saint Francis High School in Mountain View .
On March 2 school president Simon Chiu sent a letter to the school community explaining some significant news . In the letter Chiu explained :
“ In early 2012 , Saint Francis parent Barry Eggers , a founding partner at the venture capital firm Lightspeed Venture Partners , was intrigued as his two children , Andrew ‘ 12 and Natalie ‘ 14 , returned home from school one afternoon enthralled by a new social media app called Snapchat . After learning the extent of Snapchat ’ s popularity and conducting some due diligence with his firm ,
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part of which included one of his partners tracking down the founder who was operating the business out of a Stanford dorm room at the time , Barry knew he wanted to invest in the promising company , and in a stroke of remarkable generosity he decided to invite Saint Francis to join him .
As a board member of the SF Growth Fund-an investment fund created in 1990 by parents and former Saint Francis president Kevin Makley , who was then serving as
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director of development , to support the school ’ s long term initiatives through investments in venturebacked start-ups and emerging growth companies-Barry pitched the opportunity to the board and they agreed . Soon after , Snapchat received its first seed investment of $ 500,000- $ 485,000 from Lightspeed and the remaining $ 15,000 from the SF Growth Fund .
The school ’ s investment in Snapwhich this morning announced the
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completion of its IPO-has matured and given us a significant boost as we continue our work towards realizing the bold vision and goals set out in our community-inspired strategic plan : Leading with Hope & Zeal .”
Saint Francis officials confirmed the return this investment was $ 24 million . And as with all SF Growth Fund returns , the proceeds from the investment will not be used to support the school ’ s annual operating expenses .
Chiu concluded the letter by saying he would be sharing more information in the coming weeks about how this opportunity would help Saint Francis achieve its goals .
For more information regarding Saint Francis High School visit , www . sfhs . com .
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Leer es Poder Student Group formed at Sacred Heart Nativity Schools
An enthusiastic group of about 20 students , who advocate for literacy , was formed recently at Sacred Heart Nativity / Our Lady of Grace School . The group , known as Leer es Poder ( Reading is Power !), sponsored its first schoolwide RAD DAY event early this month on Read Across America Day .
On RAD ( Read All Day ), all middle school students were invited to bring books , magazines , sleeping bags , pillows and stuffies to curl up and enjoy a book during the last two periods of the day . Leer es Poder students walked around to the different classrooms to deliver cookies and milk to interested students who paid . 50 / cookie . Students also had the opportunity to wear pajama free dress for $ 1.00 .
Students in the Leer es Poder group hope to make enough money to start re-furbishing the library with buying some new books and hopefully
Sixth grade girls enjoying RAD Day .
being able to get a beanbag chair too . ELA teacher , Elise Hasty , facilitates this newly formed student leadership group . Ms . Hasty approached Principal Lorraine Shepherd sharing her concerns about students not reading outside of school time and enjoying it . Both Hasty and Shepherd noted that there are still many students on campus who enjoy reading and why not form a task force to have students find the solutions .
An open invitation to learn about the forming student task force brought close to 20 students to Room 105 and from there Leer es Poder was formed . Next on the agenda for the group is to provide lunchtime assistance to the volunteer librarian to help catalog books and work on library displays . In addition , they have plans to decorate a hallway bulletin board dedicated to women authors this month .