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YOU ARE CORDIALLY INVITED…
Garden Pathways Eighteenth Annual
lease join us as we
honor four outstanding
Women with a Heart
for Bakersfield:
2021 Cassie Bittle
Raymonda Burnham Marquez
Jessica Grimes
Wednesday, May 19, 2021 Robin Robinson
Social • 11:00 a.m.
Luncheon • 11:30 a.m. to 1:00 p.m.
Seven Oaks Country Club
2000 Grand Lakes Avenue
Bakersfield, California Building Community
from the Inside Out
Garden Pathways Eighteenth Annual
in honor of
Wednesday, May 19, 2021 • Seven Oaks Country Club
11:00 a.m. Social • 11:30 a.m. to 1:00 p.m. Luncheon and Program
Dear Friends,
Garden Pathways will honor four outstanding Women with a Heart for Bakersfield at our eighteenth
annual High Tea on Wednesday, May 19: Cassie Bittle, Raymonda Burnham Marquez, Jessica
Grimes, and Robin Robinson. We are delighted to recognize these notable women who have
demonstrated exceptional community service and leadership, and have made a positive and lasting
impact on our community. We also will pay tribute to our seventy former Women with a Heart for
Bakersfield honorees. They all share Garden Pathways’ heart for Bakersfield. Please join us in honoring
these outstanding women who inspire, mentor, and empower others to generously serve our
community.
Families need your help. By sponsoring this event, you can help change the future of our community
and build healthy families. Proceeds from the event will provide mentoring and education services for
youth and families who are seeking to overcome the challenges of poverty and at-risk conditions and are
moving towards educational advancement, employment, family stability, self-sufficiency, healthy living, and
improved quality of life.
Will you help us change lives? Your gift will allow us to create a pathway to self-sufficiency and change
the futures of families.
DIAMOND EVENT SPONSOR $10,000 (table of 8) SILVER SPONSOR $1,250 (half table of 4)
PLATINUM SPONSOR $5,000 (table of 8) BRONZE SPONSOR $500 (two tickets)
GOLD SPONSOR $2,500 (table of 8)
Beckie Diltz Joan Dezember Shannon Grove
Cherilee Ezell Heather Van Housen Connie Wattenbarger
Garden Pathways Board Members / High Tea Committee
Comprehensive Mentoring Services • Downtown Education Center • Arts Mentoring
Building Community 1616 29th Street • Bakersfield, California 93301 • www.gardenpathways.org
from the Inside Out Karen Goh, President/CEO • Juan Avila, COO
Garden Pathways transforms
lives from the inside out through
loving, mentoring relationships.
Board of Directors
Beckie Diltz (Chair)
Bernard C. Barmann Jr.
Garth Corrigan
Cherilee Ezell
Shannon Grove
Jay Richmond
Heather Van Housen
Raymond A. Watson
Connie Wattenbarger
Advisors
Morgan Clayton
Joan Dezember
Dr. David Goh, founder
Staff
Karen Goh, President/CEO
Juan Avila, COO
Comprehensive Mentoring Services • Downtown Education Center • Arts Mentoring
1616 29th Street • Bakersfield, California 93301 • 661-633-9133
www.gardenpathways.org
High Tea 2021 The favor of a reply is
requested by May 12, 2021.
Name __________________________ Organization
Address _________________________ City _______________ Zip
E-mail
Home# _________________Work#________________Cell#
Sponsorship Levels
q Diamond Event Sponsor $10,000 (table of 8)
q Platinum Sponsor $5,000 (table of 8)
q Gold Sponsor $2,500 (table of 8)
q Silver Sponsor $1,250 (half table of 4)
q Bronze Sponsor $500 (two tickets)
Sponsor name to be listed in program:
_____________________________________________________________
q Sorry I can’t make it; enclosed is my gift of $ _________________________
Please make checks payable to: Garden Pathways, Inc., 1616 29th St., Bakersfield, CA 93301
You may also purchase sponsorships online at www.gardenpathways.org
Reserved Seating. Below is the list of names of those at my table:
For persons unable to physically attend, we will offer online viewing. Please Vegetarian Online
include email address next to guest’s name, so we can email a Zoom link. Meal? Viewing?
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Due to COVID-19 space limitations, individual tickets will not be available unless restrictions change.
Please contact Garden Pathways to be placed on the waiting list.
For more information, please contact Karen Goh or Kimee Earnshaw at 661-633-9133
kareng@gardenpathways.org or kimeee@gardenpathways.org
Garden Pathways Eighteenth Annual
in honor of
Wednesday, May 19, 2021 • Seven Oaks Country
Club Cassie Bittle • Raymonda Burnham Marquez
Jessica Grimes • Robin Robinson
2002–2019 Women with a Heart for Bakersfield
Kim Albers.............................2010 Annie Everly...........................2008 Denise Ornelas.......................2013
Marissa Amador.....................2014 Robin Fleming ......................2018 Naina Patel, MD....................2015
Brooke Antonioni...................2014 Chris Frank............................2003 Barbara Patrick.......................2006
Sheryl Barbich........................2002 Caren Floyd...........................2013 Kay Pitts................................2012
Beverly Beasley Johnson.........2005 Olivia Garcia..........................2017 Cynthia Pollard......................2014
Karen Brown..........................2008 Sheryl Giesbrecht...................2013 Christy Porter........................2009
Cathy Butler...........................2010 Cynthia Giumarra..................2014 Wendy Porter.........................2015
Mary Bynum..........................2011 Barbara Grimm-Marshall.......2012 Jeanette Richardson...............2007
Beverly Camp ........................2018 Susan Handy..........................2009 Rebecca Rivera, MD..............2007
Izetta Camp...........................2002 Ann Hansen...........................2008 Norma Rojas-Mora................2016
Irma Carson...........................2007 Susan Hersberger....................2010 Sunny Scofield.......................2003
Irma Cervantes.......................2015 Sheri Horn-Bunk...................2019 Sandra Serrano.......................2006
Nancy Chaffin.......................2015 Cynthia Icardo.......................2016 Mary K. Shell.........................2002
Esther Chapman....................2005 NaTesha Johnson...................2019 Susie Small.............................2009
Audrey Chavez.......................2012 Virginia Kirschenman............2006 Janis Varner ...........................2018
Mary Christenson..................2011 Pauline Larwood....................2007 Danielle Wade........................2016
Edna Cornforth.....................2017 Lori Malkin...........................2011 Tracy Walker-Kiser.................2016
Holly Culhane.......................2006 Robin Mangarin Scott...........2011 Lueether Ward.......................2005
Peggy Darling........................2007 Lili Marsh..............................2018 Connie Wattenbarger.............2008
Joan Dezember.......................2005 Judi McCarthy.......................2008 Wendy Wayne........................2003
Beckie Diltz...........................2006 Colleen McGauley.................2012 Katie Werdel..........................2017
Jasleen Duggal, MD...............2019 Billie Jo Medders....................2005 Dolores “Dee” Whitley..........2013
Kate Eucce.............................2017 Diana Mestmaker..................2019 Betty Younger........................2009
Dayna Nichols.......................2010
Comprehensive Mentoring Services • Downtown Education Center • Arts Mentoring
1616 29th Street • Bakersfield, California 93301 • 661-633-9133 • www.gardenpathways.org
WHAT WE DO
GARDEN PATHWAYS mentors children, youth, and adults to build
productive lives. Diverse mentoring and education programs lead
families to educational advancement, employment, family stability,
self-sufficiency, healthy living, and improved quality of life.
Building Community
Comprehensive Mentoring from the Inside Out
Downtown Education Center
Arts Mentoring
Karen Goh, President/CEO
• youth mentoring Mark Rutkoskie, CFO
• ex-offender mentoring Juan Avila, COO
• violence prevention • neighborhood transformation Dyann Barrientos, Director of Operations
• employment preparation mentoring • healthcare outreach Laurie Curbow, Director of Childhood
• batterers intervention mentoring • preschool and infant care Education
• tattoo removal • arts mentoring
“
Since attending Garden Pathways, I have received the tools and
confidence I needed to find an honest career and be a provider
for my family. I am now able to magnify my accomplishments and
not spend time dwelling on my negatives. ~Junior
ANNUAL RESULTS
797 PARTICIPANTS
SERVED 181,297 HOURS OF DIRECT
SERVICE
Garden Pathways • 1616 29th Street • Bakersfield, California 93301
(661) 633-9133 • www.gardenpathways.org
What they’re saying...
ADULT MENTORING
“I deeply appreciate and value the relationship developed between myself
and Garden Pathways. Garden Pathways’ desire to see success where
society sees failure is unmatched and sincere. For this, I love Garden
Pathways” ~Michael
“Ever since the first day of my orientation I have known Garden
Pathways is here to help change my life for the better.” ~Oscar
“My relationship with my family is great, especially with my dad. I enrolled
into the steps program, got my SR22, and best of all I got my restricted
license to get to and from work and to my mentoring program! I’m so
proud right now. Thank you Emmanuel and Garden Pathways!” ~Juan
YOUTH
“I get a chance to be me and not be judged. I get to learn more about
myself and others. I have also gained more confidence and respect” ~Nat
“I love how our mentors give us advice and help us out with any type of
problems we have” ~Cristal
“I appreciate how our mentors help us in resolving our problems and
guide us to a better future” ~Jorge
DOWNTOWN EDUCATION CENTER
“We are overwhelmed by the attention, care, and teaching that our
daughter has experienced while attending Garden Pathways Downtown
Education Center. We can’t thank the staff enough.” ~Parent of 4-year old
“My child truly enjoys school now. He is sad when he has to stay home.
This warms my heart. I credit the staff at Garden Pathways for his GARDEN PATHWAYS
attitude. I hope his future teachers are as good” ~Parent of 3-year old transforms lives from the
inside out through loving,
“This is a wonderful child care facility. I have watched my son grow in
mentoring relationships.
so many ways with the help of the staff. Thank you for all of your help
with potty training. ~Parent of 2-year old.
Our Locations
Garden Pathways Downtown Hope Village
Administrative Offices Education Center 2116 P Street
1616 29th Street 1130 17th Street
661-633-9133 661-633-2302
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COMMUNITY IMPACT
Garden Pathways’ trauma informed approach to “building community from the inside out”
fosters the healing process among the most vulnerable individuals. This enables them to
become healthy, productive community members growing in education, leadership, and
self-sufficiency.
YOUTH MENTORING INCREASE IN
Results from Garden Pathways mentoring 167 youth.
The cost for Garden Pathways to mentor one youth for a
GRADE POINT
AVERAGE
45%
year is $2,600. The lifetime cost of one high-risk youth is
$2.6 to 5.3 million.
SOURCE: Cohen, New Evidence on the Monetary Value of Saving a Under the most challenging
High-Risk Youth, Journal of Quantitative Criminology, 2008. conditions of COVID
ADULT MENTORING
Results from Garden Pathways working with 293 RECIDIVISM RATE
individuals involved in the justice system. The annual cost FOR GARDEN 6%
for Garden Pathways to mentor one person in the justice PATHWAYS
system is $6,000. The cost to house one person in a
California prison for one year is $81,000.
vs.
RECIDIVISM RATE
Of the 293 adults we’re working with, 217 have obtained
FOR STATE OF
CALIFORNIA
45%
employment and/or enrolled in vocational training.
SOURCES: U.S. Department of Labor definition of recidivism; L.A. Times
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