Tess Manalo-Ventresca
Experience Corps
San Francisco, CA
Tess Manalo-Ventresca volunteers countless hours with Experience Corps and actively encourages others to join the organization. Experience Corps offers Bay Area adults over 55 the opportunity to develop caring relationships with children in San Francisco and Oakland through tutoring and mentoring opportunities during and after school. Additionally, they support youth in enrichment activities, playing games, reading books, or developing programs for children based on their own unique backgrounds and experiences. Manalo-Ventresca makes it a point to ensure that children are engaged, and most importantly, having fun.
Manalo-Ventresca has donated her time to numerous causes, along with Experience Corps. She has worked on a number of environmental and neighborhood preservation campaigns in the Haight Ashbury, as well as cleaning up the Tenderloin by providing playgrounds and recreational opportunities for kids. Manalo-Ventresca's work goes beyond the Bay Area as she has coordinated a number of cultural and educational exchange programs for students to and from Osaka, Japan and other Southeast Asian countries.
Most recently, she was awarded a Silver Honoree for the 2005 Older Volunteers Enrich America Award from the National Area Agencies on Aging Association. Additionally, she was recognized by Assemblyman Leland Yee with the 2005 12th Assembly District Woman of the Year and was named a San Francisco Experience Corp volunteer of the year in 2004.
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