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Advancement via Individual Determination

The word avid comes from the Latin avidus, meaning eager to learn, and at Ramona's AVID program, we hope you are just that. Eager to learn about yourself, your interests, your passions, your strengths, your future, and, of course, eager to learn in your classes.

AVID is a four-year elective program that is designed for students who want to go to college and want to challenge themselves and grow. We aim to develop their academic, study, planning, and organization habits as they mature and develop interests that will lead them to many career path choices.

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Scholarships, Fundraising, and Guest Speakers

If you are interested in contributing to our scholarship fund, fundraising, other donations, or being a guest speaker, please contact the AVID coordinator, Cassie Allen at caallen@riversideunified.org 

Alumni, we love it when you get involved!

Guest Speakers

We try to provide a minimum of two guest speakers per month for our students. Each guest speaker brings their own unique experiences in the college and/or career world and shares their journey and career with the students. We love to get parents and alumni involved.  Last year we got to learn about exciting careers such as physicist, pilot, lawyer, audiologist, air quality control, human resources, sociologist, and detective, just to name a few. If you have a career path or journey you would like to share with the students, please contact Cassie Allen at caallen@riversideunified.org 

Possible Ways to Give Back

• Donate money or goods to sponsor field trips.  (For example, donate bottled water to take on a field trip, or donate snacks or lunches for a field trip, or help with hotel or ticket costs.)
• Donate money to support AVID students' college application fees. For example, one application to a California State University costs $70, and you could sponsor some applications for students in need. *Students at the very lowest income levels get fee waivers from Cal State, but many low-income students still do not qualify for the waivers.
• Donate money to help sponsor AVID students taking AP exams. Current AP exam cost is $95.
• Donate money for graduating AVID seniors' scholarships to college to bridge the gap between federal and state aid and the actual cost of attendance.
• Donate items like AP study guides or motivational items like t-shirts, or reward items like a coupon for a free meal at your business.
• Donate items like trash bags and gloves for our Adopt-A-Street litter pickup days.
• Donate your time as a guest speaker. We like to provide motivational speakers from a variety of backgrounds and career pathways.

• A special shout out to Ramona Alumni owned DeMatteo's Pizza for supporting AVID throughout the years! 

• Many thanks to retired Ramona teachers Bud and Linda Piraino for their support with their annual AVID student scholarships.

• Thank you to the Assistance League of Riverside for providing college scholarships, field trip scholarships, and SAT study guides to Ramona AVID students throughout the years.

• Thank you to REEF (Riverside Educational Enrichment Foundation) and the Lew Vanderzyl and Maxine Frost AVID Scholarships for students.

• Thank you RIMS AVID for providing scholarships for students.

• Thank you to alumni Frank Lopez and Mark Torres for your donations and scholarships.

• Thank you to the parents and many others who have supported your students and AVID throughout the years.