Curt Yagi heads annual fundraiser
By: Andrea Koskey
Examiner Staff Writer
February 23, 2010

The executive director of local nonprofit Real Options for City Kids is throwing the organization’s fifth annual fundraiser April 10 at Café Du Nord.

What is ROCK?
We are a nonprofit youth development agency in San Francisco’s Visitacion Valley. We specialize in sports and outdoor activities.

How many kids participate in your program?
We work with all the public schools in Visitacion Valley, so year-round we have 450 children in our programs.

Your fundraiser is called “Funk Out with Rock.” What can people expect?
We get hundreds of people together for an over-the-top event at Café Du Nord to come out and have a good time. The theme is funk, and we have a really good band come and play.

What’s unique about it?
Instead of the traditional host committee gathering a network of people to come to the event and raise money for ROCK, we make it a competition. Each host dresses up as funky as they can. We take a picture and post it on our Web site. People can go on and donate. The host who raised the most money by the benefit night will be named “Master of Funk.”

What will the proceeds benefit?
All of our programs. We doubled in size this year after we took over an after-school program.

— Andrea Koskey

Read more at the San Francisco Examiner: http://www.sfexaminer.com/local/Curt-Yagi-heads-annual-fundraiser-85019942.html#ixzz0gNgxHnrr

Funk out with ROCK will be held on Saturday, April 10, 2010 from 9pm-2am at Café du Nord in San Francisco. For more information about Funk out with ROCK, visit http://funk.rocksf.org.