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YES Prep Scholars Society 2011-2012

December 26, 2011 by Brittany Baize

We would like to honor our 2011-2012 YES Prep Scholars Society Members. 

These generous individuals are invested in the core values of YES Prep - particularly our commitment to drive visionary change in Houston.  Thank you for all of your support - this year and in years past.  We are so grateful for your support!

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Denham Capital Builds Library for YES Prep West

December 22, 2011 by Brittany Baize

YES Prep is lucky to have many dedicated partners in the Houston community.  Our supporters give their time, energy, expertise, and resources to support our mission and to help us transform Houston.  One of our supporters, Denham Capital, packed their screwdrivers, rubber mallets, and drills and headed over to our new YES Prep West Campus on Harwin Drive.  The group of twenty volunteers broke down boxes, built library shelves, arranged the room, and even leveled fourteen boxes of books so that students will be able to access material according their reading level.

Denham Capital, a private equity firm, and its generous employees have given both time and money to support YES Prep students. As part of this relationship, which started in 2009 through YES Prep board chairman and

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AT&T Sends Santa to Surprise YES Prep Seniors

December 20, 2011 by Brittany Baize

On Wednesday of last week, ten YES Prep seniors headed to KIPP High School to represent YES Prep at a check presentation.  They joined ten KIPP seniors to receive $10,000 in gifts for our two schools from AT&T.  While smiling for the camera, they were surprised to see Santa enter the room with a large bag of presents!  Santa passed out twenty wrapped boxes to the students.  

As the gifts were passed down, J.J. Romero Cabrero was guessing what could be inside. "I thought the gift was a book."  As the wrapping paper came off, the students realized AT&T had surprised them each with a Samsung tablet to take to college.  Cabrero said, "Then I realized I could use this tablet to read a lot of books!"  The students were thrilled and grateful for AT&T's holiday generosity to each individual

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YES Prep Professionals: Service, Leadership, and Socializing

December 15, 2011 by Brittany Baize

We want to thank all of our YES Prep Professionals (YPP) members who brought their friends to our first annual holiday party on Tuesday, December 13th to learn more about how to get involved and support the mission of YES Prep.  Over 50 people attended the celebration at Guadalajara, and, thanks to the dedicated recruitment efforts of our YPP corps, 40 attendees were new faces!  We are well on our way of reaching our big goal: 100 volunteers at our next service day on Saturday, January 28th.

We also want to thank our generous sponsors for this event: Liskow & Lewis and Guadalajara Bar & Grille.

If you missed the holiday party mark your calendar for our biggest YPP recruitment event yet!  On Thursday, January 19th, YPP will be hosting a party at St. Arnold Brewery - complete with

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PRESS RELEASE: YES Prep to Partner with KIPP and Spring Branch ISD in SKY Partnership

December 08, 2011 by Lindsey Windham

Education leaders in Spring Branch (Houston, TX) are proud to announce a new, three-way collaboration between Spring Branch Independent School District (SBISD), and two public charter school organizations, KIPP Houston (KIPP) and YES Prep Public Schools (YES Prep).

On Tuesday, Dec. 6, the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation congratulated the newly formed SKY Partnership (SBISD, KIPP, and YES Prep) and welcomed them as the newest members of the District-Charter Collaboration Compact cities.

Spring Branch joins Chicago, which also announced its Compact today, and 12 additional public school systems – Baltimore, Denver, Hartford, Conn., Los Angeles, Minneapolis, Nashville, Tenn., New Orleans, New York City, Rochester, N.Y., Sacramento, Calif., Central Falls, R.I., and Boston – that have

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