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