This is our annual silent & live auction & buffet dinner (200 people attend) where the money we raise helps us to provide one-time freshman college scholarships ($1,000 or $1,500) to our high school seniors. We also honor two past protégés & two past mentors & present them with an award. The foundation is a mentoring program where the protégés (starting in the 8th grade) are matched with a Cleveland area professional/adult where they meet both in the workplace & personally. Every protégé that has stayed in the program throughout their senior year has gone on to college & the statistics for a Cleveland city school student to go to college is only 10%. The demographics of the population served by our foundation is all races & all genders in grades 8th - 12th grade.

The Rotsky Foundation (www.rotskyfoundation.org), a not-for-profit, 501.c.3 foundation (#31-1516788), which has close connections with Case Western Reserve University, partners middle school children (protégés) from the Cleveland Metropolitan School District (CMSD) with adult mentors who are successful in the field to which the student aspires into a mentoring relationship for at least four years. There are at least three contacts per month between the mentor and the protégé, at least one of which is in person. Additionally, a staff person checks up on each student in the program at his or her school on a monthly basis. There are also group events that occur within the program, most notably an annual trip to Case Western Reserve University (CWRU) to shadow a college student for a day. Our children are the future of our country & our mentor program helps to guide & direct the protégés to go to college & to make something of themselves as adults. The only fundraising event we do each year is this silent auction which will provide them scholarships to go to college. 

Goal One: To Provide Motivation for Education
Goal Two: To Establish and Build a Positive Relationship
Goal Three: To Provide Career Advice and Direction
Goal Four: To Offer a Network for Success

Our donors will have an excellent advertising venue in the event itself, as well as on our website www.rotskyfoundation.org, where the donor program will be listed prior to & after the event ends, on social media, local newspaper & radio. We would also be happy to display any brochures/flyers with your donation at our fundraiser.

We just started to solicit for donations - we have received to date Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade (4) tickets, Kansas City Chiefs Travis Kelce Autographed Super Bowl 2020 football, 2 Kings Island Amusement Park tickets, Go Ape Adventure 2 tickets, Cooper's Hawk Winery Wining Tasting for 4, Snow Trails in Mansfield, Ohio Skiing or Snowboarding Experience (2 All-Day Lift Tickets, 2 Ski/Snowboarding Equipment Rentals & 2 Group Lessons), Cleveland Cinemas 4 tickets, Western Reserve Historical Society 4 admission tickets, $25 Dewey's Pizza gift card, Great Lakes Science Center 2 admission tickets, Tractor Supply $50 gift card, Bell’s Brewery in Michigan gift basket, Roosters Restaurant in Canton $40 gift certificate, Holiday World & Splashin’ Safari two 2020 admission tickets, TJ. Chumps Restaurant in Miamisburg, Ohio $30 gift certificate, Stancato’s Italian Restaurant in Parma (waiting on the certificates to be picked up), Mr. Hero (will get certificates closer to the event), ComedySportz in Chicago 4 admission tickets, Land Grant Brewing Company in Columbus (waiting on what they are donating closer to the event), City Barbeque & Catering in Beachwood (will get gift certificates closer to the event), Duck Donuts a dozen donuts, The Works Museum in Minnesota Family 4 Pack, Swan Boats of Boston 4 tickets & Scene 75 Entertainment Centers $20 in game cards.

Companies that have donated to our annual event are Walt Disney World, Chipotle, Oriental Trading, AMC Theatres, Cleveland Browns, Cleveland Cavaliers, Cleveland Indians, Alex & Ani, Qdoba, Rock & Roll Hall of Fame, Pro Football Hall of Fame, Subway, Auto Zone, The Cheesecake Factory, Trader Joe's, Costco, BJ's Wholesale Club, Uber & Cookies By Design.