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Hello <<First Name>>,

Only 3 more days until our Virtual Trivia Night and the start of our Silent Auction—we hope you can join us for a night of friendly competition and philanthropy!

Our founder has pledged to match $5,000 in ticket sales and donations through the end of May in honor of Mental Health Awareness month. We’ve already matched $790! Everyone who purchases a ticket, makes a donation, or bids at our silent auction will also be entered into a drawing to win one of five $50 gift certificates generously donated by Picaboo (photo books & gifts).

Proceeds will fund our proactive mental health interventions in schools serving low-income communities. Since 2015, we have helped 200 students build resilience skills and academic engagement through small group instruction. Now, we’ve trained teachers to deliver our curriculum to their entire class. Our new program is going well in our first partner school and we will be rolling it out to an additional 300+ students this fall! You can read an update from the teacher below.

We hope you can join us for one or both events, <<First Name>>! Together, we can help children build the resilience they need to weather life’s storms.

Program Update!

“We have finished with the first three lessons on resilience and being proactive. Overall, they went really well. The lessons have been extremely easy to implement from a teacher’s perspective. The layout and the timing of everything is pretty spot on. The videos seem to do a good job simplifying the topics in a way that make them easy to understand without seeming like they were designed for 'babies' as some students tend to feel. The length of the videos strike a good balance between summarizing the content without being overly dense or too long where students lose focus and engagement. Within the lessons, I have found a lot of flexibility to allow students to drive the conversations in a direction that gets them excited. The breathing/relaxation exercises at the end of each lesson have helped to reset students and serves as a good transition.” - Kyle Miller, 5th Grade Teacher at Washington Jesuit Academy

Have fun with friends while supporting a good cause at our virtual Trivia Night hosted by the professionals at Trivia Mafia! Join us on Zoom for a fresh batch of enjoyably challenging questions about all kinds of topics, from patents to TV parents, lemmings to the album Lemonade. Trivia Mafia is committed to providing the best team trivia around.

• Follow the Zoom link (emailed later) to start the game; you can join up to fifteen minutes early to size up the competition and socialize.

• At the start of the game, you can provide a Team Name to play with a group of your choice (4-6 players). If you don't have a group in mind, simply enter Free Agent to be placed with other solo trivia lovers!

• The host will go over the Rules, read a round of five questions, and then whisk you away to your team's private Breakout Room to discuss the questions.

• You'll have five minutes to confer about the answers, then one person from your team will submit answers via a Google Form (provided during the Rules).

• The game will be 6 rounds of questions and take about two hours, and you'll see the team standings by the end.#braggingrights

• See what it's like to play in this video.

• We hope you enjoy a good quiz with some great camaraderie!
  

Bonus!

The talented chefs and bartenders at All Set Restaurant & Bar have made us a fabulous "at-home menu" with delicious appetizer and drink recipes! The menus will be sent out with the trivia night link so you have plenty of time to gather the ingredients. A walk-through of the recipes during the trivia night will add to the fun!

2nd Annual Silent Auction, May 1st-15th

We have some wonderful items—big and small—at our second annual silent auction. Items range from baseball tickets to restaurant gift cards to kid’s toys to luxury getaways in the US and abroad. We'll be adding new items for you to preview as the auction date approaches. You can register now and add items to your "favorites" list!

A special thank you to our generous sponsors!

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