Wednesday, August 31, 2016

Join The Matt Garcia Foundation for Our 7th Annual Golf Tournament!


JOIN US FOR A FUN DAY OF GOLF THE MATT GARCIA FOUNDATION SEVENTH ANNUAL GOLF TOURNAMENT

The Matt Garcia Foundation is pleased to announce one of our most exciting events of the year. Our 7th Annual Golf Tournament is an opportunity to ensure that the impactful youth and community programs that we support throughout the year will continue.

Our late city councilman, Matt Garcia, was a young man with a vision. With the help of generous individuals and companies such as yours, our foundation has been able to raise the essential funds needed in "Keeping the Dream Alive." Your participation sends a powerful message that you are partnering with us to make our world a safer and more meaningful place.

The event itself is an opportunity to network with many potential customers and clients. All of our sponsors' names will be prominently displayed on our event publications. Your donation is tax deductible. It is our mission to support youth, help stop crime, and strengthen our community.

Thank you in advance for celebrating this hope of creating a better Fairfield for tomorrow!

The Matt Garcia Golf Tournament is scheduled for October 10, 2016, at the beautiful course of Green Valley Country Club. CLICK HERE for more details.

TOURNAMENT SCHEDULE - MONDAY, OCTOBER 10, 2016

9:30AM - 10:30AM | REGISTRATION 
11:00 AM | SHOTGUN START 
4:30PM | NO-HOST BAR 
5:30PM | DINNER

Sunday, August 28, 2016

How Playing Sports Benefits Your Body ... and Your Brain - Leah Lagos and Jaspal Ricky Singh


The victory of the underdog. The last minute penalty shot that wins the tournament. The training montage. Many people love to glorify victory on the field, cheer for teams, and play sports. But should we be obsessed with sports? Are sports as good for us as we make them out to be, or are they just a fun and entertaining pastime? Leah Lagos and Jaspal Ricky Singh show what science has to say on the matter. 

Lesson by Leah Lagos and Jaspal Ricky Singh, animation by Kozmonot Animation Studio.

Thursday, August 25, 2016

Join Us For Our Monthly Community Clean Up on Saturday!

 
When: Saturday, August 27th, 2016 at 9am 

Where: Starbucks Downtown Fairfield 700 Jefferson St Corner of Jefferson & Texas (map)

Description: We meet every last Saturday of each month (weather permitting). We clean up different locations and neighborhoods. Please join us. All are welcome

At the Matt Garcia Foundation we don’t want to complain about this, we want to create solutions to problems. It is with this spirit that we began our Monthly Community Clean Ups.

On the last Saturday of every month, volunteers get together and clean up a neighborhood in Fairfield. We pick up trash, work on landscaping paint windows, fix fences – all in an effort to improve our community. This is another example of community coming together to help make a difference.

The Matt Garcia Foundation Dream Team, is all about stepping up and stepping out of ourselves to serve others and our communities to be a part of the solution. Matt would say ” if you see a piece of garbage on the ground, please just pick it up” How simple is that! So, that is what we do.

Monday, August 22, 2016

Everyday Leadership - Drew Dudley



We have all changed someone's life -- usually without even realizing it. In this funny talk, Drew Dudley calls on all of us to celebrate leadership as the everyday act of improving each other's lives. (Filmed at TEDxToronto.)

Friday, August 19, 2016

Scilla Elworthy: Fighting with Non-Violence



How do you deal with a bully without becoming a thug? In this wise and soulful talk, peace activist Scilla Elworthy maps out the skills we need -- as nations and individuals -- to fight extreme force without using force in return. To answer the question of why and how non-violence works, she evokes historical heroes -- Aung San Suu Kyi, Mahatma Gandhi, Nelson Mandela -- and the personal philosophies that powered their peaceful protests. (Filmed at TEDxExeter.)

Wednesday, August 17, 2016

Join The Matt Garcia Foundation for Our 7th Annual Golf Tournament!


JOIN US FOR A FUN DAY OF GOLF THE MATT GARCIA FOUNDATION SEVENTH ANNUAL GOLF TOURNAMENT

The Matt Garcia Foundation is pleased to announce one of our most exciting events of the year. Our 7th Annual Golf Tournament is an opportunity to ensure that the impactful youth and community programs that we support throughout the year will continue.

Our late city councilman, Matt Garcia, was a young man with a vision. With the help of generous individuals and companies such as yours, our foundation has been able to raise the essential funds needed in "Keeping the Dream Alive." Your participation sends a powerful message that you are partnering with us to make our world a safer and more meaningful place.

The event itself is an opportunity to network with many potential customers and clients. All of our sponsors' names will be prominently displayed on our event publications. Your donation is tax deductible. It is our mission to support youth, help stop crime, and strengthen our community.

Thank you in advance for celebrating this hope of creating a better Fairfield for tomorrow!

The Matt Garcia Golf Tournament is scheduled for October 10, 2016, at the beautiful course of Green Valley Country Club. CLICK HERE for more details.

TOURNAMENT SCHEDULE - MONDAY, OCTOBER 10, 2016

9:30AM - 10:30AM | REGISTRATION 
11:00 AM | SHOTGUN START 
4:30PM | NO-HOST BAR 
5:30PM | DINNER

Saturday, August 13, 2016

How Jobs Can Help Kids Stay in School



The NewsHour's American Graduate team recently traveled to Boston to report on youth employment rates and how the city is reaching out to businesses in an effort to link the classroom to potential careers.

Wednesday, August 10, 2016

Why You Think You're Right -- Even If You're Wrong | Julia Galef


Perspective is everything, especially when it comes to examining your beliefs. Are you a soldier, prone to defending your viewpoint at all costs — or a scout, spurred by curiosity? Julia Galef examines the motivations behind these two mindsets and how they shape the way we interpret information, interweaved with a compelling history lesson from 19th-century France. When your steadfast opinions are tested, Galef asks: "What do you most yearn for? Do you yearn to defend your own beliefs or do you yearn to see the world as clearly as you possibly can?"

Sunday, August 7, 2016

Nadine Burke Harris: How Childhood Trauma Affects Health Across a Lifetime



Childhood trauma isn’t something you just get over as you grow up. Pediatrician Nadine Burke Harris explains that the repeated stress of abuse, neglect and parents struggling with mental health or substance abuse issues has real, tangible effects on the development of the brain. This unfolds across a lifetime, to the point where those who’ve experienced high levels of trauma are at triple the risk for heart disease and lung cancer. An impassioned plea for pediatric medicine to confront the prevention and treatment of trauma, head-on.

Thursday, August 4, 2016

Theaster Gates: How to revive a neighborhood: with imagination, beauty and art



Theaster Gates, a potter by training and a social activist by calling, wanted to do something about the sorry state of his neighborhood on the south side of Chicago. So he did, transforming abandoned buildings to create community hubs that connect and inspire those who still live there (and draw in those who don't). In this passionate talk, Gates describes his efforts to build a "miniature Versailles" in Chicago, and he shares his fervent belief that culture can be a catalyst for social transformation in any city, anywhere.

Monday, August 1, 2016

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