Family in Transition (FIT) March Newsletter
- Charity Cultural Services Center (CCSC)
- Mar 3
- 6 min read
Charity Cultural Services Center - Family in Transition Monthly Newsletter
March 2025
March into Spring!
Welcome to the FIT program! March marks the beginning of spring, and while it still may be cold, the outdoors are becoming more welcoming, with peeks into blooming flowers and longer days. Plant seeds for a rewarding spring by checking out this month’s FIT events and other information about scholarships and summer applications!
GRATITUDE CENTER
🧹 Lower Nob Hill Cleanup 🧹
Thank you very much to all 12 participants who came to the Lower Nob Hill Cleanup event on February 9th. We hope you had fun beautifying the neighborhood, and enjoyed the lunch and drinks afterwards! In total, all the event volunteers removed 76 bags of trash from the Lower Nob Hill streets!
THIS MONTH’S FIT EVENTS
🌼 Bloom Shaboom 🌼
Flyer adapted from the original flyer from Family Connection Centers.
Join us for Family Connections Centers' annual Bloom Shaboom, a vibrant community block party celebrating art, nature, and togetherness. As a volunteer, you'll help facilitate event activities such as games, arts projects, and welcoming attendees. You'll also provide food and ensure everyone has a fantastic time. Lunch is provided to all volunteers, and the event is free and open to all ages. Sign up using the button below or through the QR code on the flyer.
Time: Sunday, March 23rd from 12:30 PM to 4:30 PM
Location: The Portola, 2675 San Bruno Ave, San Francisco CA 94134
*This event counts as one FIT Scholarship volunteer credit.
🎯 Level Up Your Life 🎯
The Level Up Your Life workshop is a hands-on workshop where you’ll learn about setting goals, building better habits and taking control of your future. Topics will include managing time, staying motivated and developing smart money skills to set yourself up for success.
Time: Saturday, March 15th, 10 - 11:15 AM
Location: 731 Commercial St.,
San Francisco CA 94108
*This event counts as one FIT Scholarship workshop credit.
LOCAL EVENTS
🍀 St. Patrick’s Day Parade 🍀
The 174th Annual St. Patrick’s Day Parade is a cherished tradition that brings the community together to honor Irish heritage and the immigrant experience. The Parade begins at the corner of 2nd & Market Street on Saturday, March 15, 2025 at 11:30am and marches down Market Street – ending at Civic Center Plaza. Details on their Facebook, Instagram and website.
🌹 Free Flowers on Tulip Day 🌹
A colorful display of more than 80,000 tulips will cover Union Square in San Francisco, and you are invited to visit the square and pick your own free bunch of tulips! This is an annual event called Tulip Day, and it happens in New York, too. Stop by on Saturday, March 22nd at 1pm to see all kinds of beautiful tulips – and bring some home at no charge, too! More info here.
🎶 Fat Tuesday in the Fillmore 🎶
On Tuesday, March 4, 2025, get ready for a fun day starting at 5:00 PM with a free New Orleans-style parade down the Fillmore Corridor (Fillmore at Golden Gate Ave), featuring live music from the David Hardiman Line Band, face painting, street artists, and more. Then at 6:00 PM, head to Fillmore Plaza (at Fillmore & O’Farrell) for a free outdoor blues concert with the Curtis Family and Neicy Living Single. It’s a cool, family-friendly event with awesome music and entertainment! Get details here.
RESOURCES
🚎 Ride MUNI to School Week 🚎
Ride Muni to School Week is happening from March 3-7, 2025, encouraging students to use public transit and earn rewards! Students aged 18 and under can ride Muni for free, and the more they ride, the more chances they have to win prizes, including a $50 gift card for the art contest winner and an exclusive “I love Muni” notebook. To participate, students can sign up here, log their rides using the Ride Muni Challenge Book or website, and complete bonus challenges like designing a Muni pass or creating a transit playlist. The school with the most trips logged will also win an exclusive tote bag. For more details, students can visit the website or contact their school for registration information.
🌳 Linking Individuals to their Natural Communities Summer Program 🌳
LINC is a six-week program hosted by the Golden Gate National Parks Conservancy that brings high school youth from across the Bay Area together for a variety of outdoor experiences themed around service, youth agency, recreation, community building, and professional development. Upon successful completion of the program, all participants receive up to a $2,400 education award.
Applications are due by March 18, 2025.
👩🎓 2025 Superintendent’s 21st Century Scholarship Award 👨🎓
The 2025 Superintendent’s 21st Century Scholarship Awards will be granted to six graduating SFUSD seniors who exemplify a particular strength in one or more of the characteristics of the SFUSD Graduate Profile. Winners will each receive a $3,000 scholarship and be honored by Superintendent Dr. Maria Su at an event on May 7, 2025.
Applications are due by March 27, 2025.
🌉 DreamSF Fellowship 🌉
The DreamSF Fellowship is a paid San Francisco-based leadership and professional development program for immigrant students and aspiring professionals who seek to gain real-world experience with social justice change-makers in the Bay Area. Applicants must be at least 18 years old, and be currently enrolled, planning to enroll in, or recent graduate from an educational program such as a 2 or 4-year university or trade school.
Applications are due by April 4, 2025.
🙆Mayor's Youth Employment & Education Program (MYEEP)🙆
MYEEP provides paid work opportunities, academic support, and tools that youth need to succeed in the workplace. MYEEP offers general participant, Counselor-in-Training, and Project Coordinator opportunities for youth in grades 9-12 and first-year college students. MYEEP also offers workshops and training, mentorship opportunities, field trips and site tours.
🏛️SF YouthWorks🏛️
SF YouthWorks provides incoming 11th and 12th graders with paid job readiness workshops, training, and internships at different departments of the City & County of San Francisco. SF YouthWorks interns who successfully complete their first year can apply to join the Youth Leadership Team, a paid position that helps plan and facilitate workshops for new interns.
📄 Hsiao Memorial Social Sciences Scholarship 📄
The Hsiao Memorial Social Sciences Scholarship is a scholarship awarded to students pursuing graduate studies in the social sciences, with a focus on academic excellence and contributions to the Chinese or Asian American community. It was established in memory of Kuo Chuan Hsiao, an economist and former professor.
The scholarship is administered by Asian Pacific Fund, a non-profit organization that provides financial support to students of Asian heritage and typically awards $1,000 to $3,000 to students who demonstrate financial need, strong academic achievement and a commitment to community service.
The deadline to submit is Friday, April 26, 2024, by 11:59 PM. Get more info here.
INSIGHTS
🥧 Pi Day 🥧
How many numbers of pi (𝝅) do you remember? Every year, people celebrate Pi Day, which was officially recognized by the U.S. House of Representatives in 2009, by sharing math jokes and eating (and sometimes throwing) pies. March 14th is designated as Pi Day because it resembles the first three digits of pi: 3.14. It's also Albert Einstein's birthday! On this day, there are restaurants or other businesses that celebrate by having a limited time deal. Most popularly, some pizza places sell pizzas for $3.14, so if you are looking for cheap eats, make sure to check it out.
Fun Facts about Pi:
Ancient Egyptians and Babylonians discovered the constant 𝝅 more than 4,000 years ago, but it was only in the 18th century that mathematicians named it “pi”.
Pi has been calculated to 100 trillion digits by Google Cloud, but there’s still a lot more to go since it is an irrational number.
A doctor named Dr. Edwin Goodwin tried to make using 3.2 for pi into law, but it failed to pass because the state senate thought it was silly.
Why should you never start a conversation with pi? Because it goes on forever.
Fun Facts about Pie:
Pizzas are also called pies.
The people of Gloucester have sent eel pie to the royal family for coronations and jubilees since the Middle Ages.
In Roman times, pie pastry was treated as food containers to keep the food fresher for longer, and it was meant to be thrown away after the filling was consumed since it was tough and hard.
Sweet pies filled with fruit were not introduced until the 1500s. Before then, it was only meat filling.
QUOTE OF THE MONTH
💡 Your Event Ideas 💡
We want to hear from you! What kind of workshops and volunteer opportunities would you like to have at FIT? Just fill out this survey and let us know. We would greatly appreciate it.
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