A volunteer group funding after-school tutoring, summer classes and a Bethesda-based college counseling nonprofit is celebrating 20 years with a special fundraiser next week.
The Bethesda-Chevy Chase High School Educational Foundation will host “An Evening of Wine, Chocolate and Cheese” on Thursday, March 12 from 7 p.m.-9 p.m. at the Woman’s Club of Chevy Chase (7931 Connecticut Avenue). RSVPS are needed by Sunday. Tickets cost $50 per person.
The event is meant to highlight the 20th anniversary of the Foundation, which provided the seed money for College Tracks, the nonprofit providing counseling and college guidance for high school students across Montgomery County.
At B-CC, the foundation funds the school’s Time for Academic Progress, or TAP program, in which it hires teachers from the school to tutor students in a study hall setting.
Thanks in part to a donation from Honest Tea co-founder Seth Goldman, it also funds the school’s Summer Academy and other school programs not supported by regular MCPS funding.
“Sometimes those extra programs, those extra supports can only be brought together by the community to make the real differences in students’ lives,” Foundation President Matthew Gandal says in the video above. “And that’s really what the Foundation is here for.”
Video via Foundation Digital Media/Vimeo
