A Strolling Dinner

A Strolling Dinner to Benefit First Place for Youth

Thursday, May 8th, 2025

Oakland Museum of California
1000 Oak St., Oakland, CA 94607

Deadline to RSVP is May 1, 2025.

RSVP TODAY

Join First Place for Youth in honoring our longtime Bay Area community partners and fundraising to continue making more possible for foster youth. Our guests will enjoy signature cocktails, a strolling dinner catered by Carrie Dove, live and silent auctions, a Fund-a-Need paddle raise, and a short program celebrating more than 26 years in the East Bay.

Sponsors have the opportunity to make more possible for transition-age foster youth in California and beyond, and to support a leading non-profit working tirelessly to change the narrative for so many young people with lived experience in the foster care system.

OUR STORY

In 1998, two graduate students were struck by how many young people who grew up in foster care faced intense challenges after aging out of care, including poverty and homelessness.

With a small grant in hand, they were inspired to help break the cycle of poverty for these vulnerable youth and launched First Place for Youth, the first organization in Northern California exclusively dedicated to addressing the lack of affordable housing and resources for foster youth who had exited foster care. Since that time, our programs have served more than 10,000 young people between the ages of 16-25 in Los Angeles, the Bay Area, and six other states around the country.

Our mission is to help foster youth build the skills they need to make a successful transition to self-sufficiency and responsible adulthood. We provide safe, stable housing, paired with intensive case management to build crucial life-skills and emotional wellbeing. Our individualized education and employment counseling are the core of our program, ensuring that young people have a clear path to succeed in school and build job readiness skills qualifying them for living-wage positions.

LEARN MORE ABOUT OUR IMPACT

By the time they exit our My First Place™ program 88% of youth attain stable housing and 97% avoid arrest. Learn more about our impact and visit our My First Place™ page.

Our Impact

SPONSORSHIP LEVELS

PRESENTING SPONSORSHIP $50,000 [SOLD]

Recognition as a Presenting Sponsor all evening:

  • 1 available
  • Presenting partner of the event, including recognition in CEO remarks
  • Company or Name recognition of signature cocktail with branded cocktail napkins
  • Prominent recognition in all written and printed materials including invitation, website, event banner, and all publicity
  • Inclusion of full-page ad in digital program
  • Dedicated social media promotion
  • 20 tickets to event

GOLD SPONSORSHIP $25,000

Recognition as a Gold Sponsor all evening:

  • Company or Name title recognition of food station or dessert table or guest favorite activity (i.e. wine toss)
  • Prominent recognition in all written and printed materials including invitation, website, event banner, and publicity
  • Inclusion of full-page ad in digital program
  • Dedicated social media promotion
  • 10 tickets to event

BRONZE SPONSORSHIP $10,000

Recognition as a Bronze Sponsor all evening:

  • Recognition in all written and printed materials including invitation, website, event banner, and publicity
  • Logo or name recognition in digital program
  • Social media promotion
  • 10 tickets to event

FRIEND SPONSORSHIP $5,000

Recognition as a Friend Sponsor all evening:

  • Recognition in all written and printed materials including invitation, website, and event banner
  • Logo or name recognition in digital program
  • Social media promotion
  • 6 tickets to event

ADVOCATE SPONSORSHIP $2,500

Recognition as an Advocate Sponsor all evening:

  • Recognition in all written and printed materials including invitation, website, and event banner
  • Logo or name recognition in digital program
  • Social media promotion
  • 4 tickets to event

ALLY SPONSORSHIP $1,000

Recognition as an Ally Sponsor all evening:

  • Recognition in all written and printed materials including invitation, website, and event banner
  • Name recognition in digital tribute journal
  • 4 tickets to event

INDIVIDUAL TICKET $175

  • 1 ticket to the event

Deadline for sponsor listing inclusion in printed invitation is March 28, 2025. Program ad deadline is April 30, 2025.

Deadline to RSVP is May 1, 2025.

RSVP TODAY

Research & Publications

2024 Annual Report

In 2024, First Place for Youth and our network partners in Massachusetts, New York, Mississippi, and Cincinnati served 1,496 young […]
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