10th Step Beyond Annual Breakfast Program

10th

Annual Breakfast®

W e d n e s d a y, A p r i l 2 7, 2 0 2 2 | T h e W e s t i n S o u t h C o a s t P l a z a

“The Wooden Floor is not just a dance place, it is a family. They help with personal problems and school problems, and anything else. There is always someone here to help you. It has become my second home.”

Michelle, Class of 2022

Michelle has been at The Wooden Floor for nine years. She says that dance has taught her that, “corrections and mistakes are not a bad thing - they are for your own good to help you grow.” Michelle discovered aerospace engineering after joining a rocketry club in middle school and, “fell in love with the field.” She dreams of studying Aerospace engineering at any UC school.

WELCOME Wednesday, April 27, 2022

THE MORNING 8:00am

n Welcome Theresa Allen, Chair, Board of Directors Dawn S. Reese, Chief Executive Officer

n Stand For The Arts Award Keri Askew Bailey, Group Vice President, Charter Communications Jennifer Kanter, Director, Partner Marketing, Ovation TV Jessie Lopez, Councilmember, City of Santa Ana

n Keynote Speaker Honorable Elizabeth G. Macias, Judge, Superior Court of California Judge Macias is the first in her family to graduate from college. Immediately after graduating law school, she was hired by the Federal Public Defender’s Office for the Central District of California where she spent the next 14 years defending persons accused of some of the most serious federal crimes. In December of 2012, Judge Macias was appointed to the California Superior Court for the County.

n Class Partner Recognition Dawn S. Reese, Chief Executive Officer

n Class of 2022 Student Address Victoria Ocampo

n Presentation of the Class of 2022 and College Announcements Diana Barriga, College & Career Readiness Coordinator

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n Closing Remarks Dawn S. Reese, Chief Executive Officer

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The Wooden Floor was selected as the only nonprofit organization in California to receive the 2021 Stand for the Arts award from Ovation TV and Charter Communications.

THIS MORNING’S MENU B R E A K FA S T : ■

Cheddar, Spinach, and Sundried Tomato Quiche

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Breakfast Potatoes

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Tomato Provençal

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House Made Granola Yogurt Parfait with Strawberry or Vanilla Yogurt and Fresh Berries

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Fresh Baked Croissants and Preserves

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Freshly Brewed Starbuck’s Coffee, Decaffeinated Coffee, and Selection of Teas

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Fresh Orange Juice

THANK YOU TO OUR 2022 STEP BEYOND

LEAD CLASS PARTNERS Bank of America Foundation

The Beall Family Foundation

Jessica Camacho & Christopher Reyes

Capital Group Companies

Carl and Roberta Deutsch Foundation

Suzi Chauvel / Chauvel Foundation

Green Foundation

Linda and Tod White Charitable Fund

My Heart Charitable Fund

New York Life Insurance Company

Gail & Peter Ochs

O.L. Halsell Foundation

PIMCO Foundation

Segerstrom Foundation

Sharon D. Lund Foundation

Constance & Donald Sperling

Sun Family Foundation

Ueberroth Family Foundation

Willette Charitable Foundation

CLASS PARTNERS Charles and Mildred Schnurmacher Foundation, Inc

Charleys Kids Foundation

Crevier Family Fund

Croul Family Foundation

Don Yoder Foundation

Edwards Lifesciences Foundation

KER Legal Group, APC

KNU For Kids Foundation

Robert J. Mairena / Office Solutions

TROY Group, Inc. - The Dirk Family

ANNUAL BREAKFAST UNDERWRITERS

INNOVATION UNDERWRITERS Advance Beauty College

Theresa & Jonathon Allen

Crean Foundation

Michelle & Timothy Dean

Frome Family Foundation

Gochnauer Family Foundation

The Golden Eagle Foundation

Yvonne & Damien Jordan

Michelle & Robert Kargenian

Joanne & Dennis Keith

Carole & Rich Lee

The John & CC Nelson Family

Trish O’Donnell

Nicholas Pardon & Sean Devlin

Swartzon Family Foundation

US Bank

Deborah & Harold Ward

CREATIVITY UNDERWRITERS Huneycutt Family Foundation

Jehan Jayakumar Carlson & Jayakumar LLP

Kathleen Lockhart

Leigh A. Morris

Ginger & Arthur Ong

Union Bank

ENCOURAGEMENT UNDERWRITERS Laura Curran Judith F. Posnikoff

Haskell & White LLP Teddie Ray

Mrs. Sandy Fainbarg

Cath MacIver & Jim Slaughter The Strelow Family

Pamela & James Markman Judy & David Threshie *as of April 18, 2022

INTRODUCING

Giselle Arteaga

Isabella Botero

Melany Brondo

Rafael Corona

Evy Gonzalez

Stephanie Gonzalez

Kassandra Guevara

Michelle Guzman

Victoria Ocampo

Vanessa Ochoa

Chelsea Olivarez

Juanita Oñate

Trinity Tran

Karla Valle

THE CLASS OF 2022 HAS BEEN ACCEPTED TO THE FOLLOWING COLLEGES AND UNIVERSITIES:

Babson College Boston University Brigham Young University Cal Poly Pomona California State University, Dominguez Hills California State University, Fullerton California State University, Long Beach California State University, Los Angeles California State University, Northridge Chapman University Golden West College Irvine Valley College

THE CLASS OF 2022

Viviana Davalos

Ashley Diaz

Mariana Garcia

Yetza Garcia

Leilani Lace

Cesar Luna

Rafael Miranda

Diana Montiel

Mayerli Parra

Ian Roman

Xitlalli Salgado

Moises Santiago

Jurithma Velazquez

Mateo Zarate

Lewis & Clark College Life Pacific University Loyola Marymount University Point Loma University Orange Coast College Oregon State University San Diego State University San Francisco State University San Jose State University Santa Ana College Santiago Canyon College University of California, Berkeley

University of California, Davis University of California, Irvine University of California, Riverside University of California, San Diego University of California, Santa Barbara University of California, Santa Cruz University of La Verne University of San Diego University of San Francisco University of Southern California Vanguard University Woodbury University *as of April 4, 2022

Thank you for what we have accomplished together In 2020, we culminated our 4-year comprehensive campaign called Lift: Inspiring Young People. Building Our Community. This monumental campaign within our organization’s history sought to bring our entire community together in support of our mission, our incredible outcomes, and the future generations of students served by The Wooden Floor.

Thanks to these efforts, the funds raised have provided the resources necessary to advance student success through:

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Growth and excellence of existing programs

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Investment in campus expansion

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Building upon The Wooden Floor Endowment Fund to increase long-term organizational sustainability and endow The Wooden Floor Scholarship awards

Scholarship Endowment Fund Underwriters We are grateful to the following supporters who have invested in The Wooden Floor’s Scholarship Endowment Fund through direct scholarship gifts, pledges and bequests during the Lift campaign, which now totals over $2.0M to date: Dawn & Charles Antis Constance & Donald Sperling Foundation Michelle & Tim Dean Fainbarg Family Foundation Cheryl Finley & Barry Neal Mary Ann R. Finley Family Foundation

Suzanne Finley Friend & David Andrew Friend Frank & Sharon Govern Adele & Bryan Green Linda & Tod White Charitable Fund Teresa Loughlin & Brent Finley

Annual Scholarship Underwriters Thank you to Suzi Chauvel and The Chauvel Foundation for underwriting The Wooden Floor scholarship awards for up to four consecutive years during a student’s college tenure, lovingly known as the Chauvel Scholars in the Classes of 2018-2022.

Legacy Scholarship Underwriters In honor of their legacy at The Wooden Floor, we would like to acknowledge Board Emeriti Virginia and Richard Hunsaker, who before their passing in 2021, have ensured that any student of The Wooden Floor who is accepted to the University of Redlands will receive a full scholarship award through the university’s Hunsaker Scholars Award, in perpetuity.

About Our Scholarship Awards The Wooden Floor recognizes graduating seniors with 4-year scholarships totaling $4,000 to $10,000 over their college tenures, based upon eligibility requirements. These important annual scholarship funds ensure that our students have the financial resources to access and matriculate from higher education. Since 2005, over 50 percent of our alumni have graduated from colleges and universities across the nation with a Bachelor’s or Master’s degree, as compared to about 12 percent of their socio-economic peers.

“The Wooden Floor helps so many kids live out their dreams and helps them reach their goals towards their next step in life.”

Rafael, Class of 2022

Rafael has been at The Wooden Floor for 10 years. He said when he started his journey, “it was somewhere safe to go and something productive to do.” As he progressed, the organization helped him understand what he enjoyed studying and his career path towards civil engineering became clear. He says The Wooden Floor also helped him navigate the college application process. Rafael’s dream school is California State University, Fullerton.

BUILDING THE SUCCESSFUL COLLEGE PATHWAY For most of our students, there are many obstacles to overcome in order to pursue higher education. Tackling them begins on the first day of classes at The Wooden Floor when third graders are referred to by their graduating class, which continues for the entirety of their 10year path at the organization. This instills the goal of college in their minds. Upon reaching the 6th grade, students enter into intensive pre-collegiate mentoring with staff. Building upon the creative problem solving and self-discipline these students learn on the dance floor, they strive toward the ultimate goal of graduating high school on time and enrolling in college.

THE NEED FOR COLLEGE & CAREER READINESS

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National percentage of Latino students who receive a high school diploma (Source: Education Week)

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National percentage of Latino students who enroll in college

National percentage of Percentage of graduates students who felt they from The Wooden Floor weren’t prepared for college who complete high school (Source: Pew Hispanic Center) and enroll in higher (Source: GOOD) education

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Mentoring, Networking & On-Campus Support

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“The Wooden Floor helped keep my motivation to do well in school, and brought me many opportunities.

The College and Career Readiness program helped me not only broaden my options but also narrow them down to help me know what I want to do and where I want to study. College is a lot to think about, and it is easy to freak out. The Wooden Floor helped me to not be afraid and helped ease me into it. I feel prepared.”

Juanita, Class of 2022

Juanita joins her siblings in being the first generation in her family to be on track to obtain a college education. She has a 3.9 GPA and is “enamored” with coding and video game design. Her dream school is USC because she is, “very interested in their game design program as well as their campus.”

THE WOODEN FLOOR

BOARD OF DIRECTORS 2021-2022 Theresa Allen,* Board Chair Managing Director and Portfolio Manager, First Republic Private Wealth Management Judith F. Posnikoff, PhD,* Immediate Past Chair Managing Director, Martlet Asset Management, LLC Saar Swartzon,* Vice Chair Principal Attorney, Cohn & Swartzon, a Professional Law Corporation Yvonne O’Neill,* Treasurer Certified Public Accountant, O’Neill Financial Management Joseph Chatelle,* Secretary Principal, Mercer Sasha Ayloush,* Director of Sales & Marketing, Hydraflow Falon Baltzell, MFA, Artistic Director, The Wooden Floor Seán Curran, Chair, Department of Dance, NYU Tisch School of the Arts Michelle Dean,* Community Leader Brent Funston, Chief Executive Officer, Wind River Group, LLC Elizabeth Gonzalez, Alumni Representative Community Leader Raquel Gonzalez, Parent Representative, Community Leader Bryan Green, Financial Advisor, Edward Jones Jehan Jayakumar, Founding Partner, Carlson & Jayakumar, LLP Naveen Jonathan, PhD, LMFT, Community Representative Clinical Associate Professor of Marriage & Family Therapy, Chair, Marriage & Family Therapy, Crean College of Health & Behavioral Sciences, Chapman University Simon Khinda, Partner, Bridge Law, LLP Jeremy Krout, President/CEO, Environmental Planning Development Solutions, Inc.

Richard Lee, Market President, Retired, Aetna, Southern California Catherine M. MacIver, Community Leader Dana McCollum, General Manager, American Funds/Capital Group Companies, Inc. Linh Nguyen, Vice President, Advance Beauty College Arthur Ong, Executive Vice President, Retired, Deputy General Counsel PIMCO Alix Portillo, Assistant Vice President, Compliance Monitoring Officer, Genesis Bank Dawn S. Reese, CFRE, Chief Executive Officer, The Wooden Floor Jim Slaughter, Partner, Slaughter & Slaughter, LLP Ernesto M. Vasquez, FAIA, NCARB, Partner & CEO, SVA Architects, Inc. Fabiola Velazquez, Parent Representative Community Leader

Board Emeriti Joan Beall, Community Leader Beth A. Burns, Founder of The Wooden Floor and Artistic Director (’83-’05) Sharon Hartshorn, Community Leader Richard C. Hunsaker,** President, Hunsaker Management Virginia Hunsaker,** Community Leader Damien M. Jordan, General Manager, Retired, American Funds/ Capital Group Companies, Inc. Yvonne M. Jordan, Community Leader Socorro Vasquez, Community Leader

* Executive Committee Members. ** In Memoriam.

The Board of Directors would like to thank The Wooden Floor’s staff, faculty, tutors, and musicians whose dedication and hard work help to make our incredible outcomes possible.

ABOUT US Founded in 1983, The Wooden Floor is one of the foremost creative youth development nonprofit organizations in the country. We transform the lives of young people in low-income communities through the power of dance and access to higher education. In Orange County and through national licensed partners, we use a long-term approach grounded in exploratory dance education to foster the confidence and gifts within each child to innovate, communicate, and collaborate – skills necessary for success in school and in life. 100 percent of students who graduate from The Wooden Floor immediately enroll in higher education. Our students become change agents and beacons of hope within

To learn more about The Wooden Floor, contact Tianna Haradon, Director of Development, at 714.541.8314 ext. 124 or Tianna@TheWoodenFloor.org.

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Photography by Timothy Agler. ©2022 The Wooden Floor.

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