Dodgers Blue Heaven: Sharefest Honored Clayton and Ellen Kershaw on Saturday

Sharefest celebrated their 10th Anniversary this past weekend with a gala event that featured Clayton and Ellen Kershaw as Honorary Chairs. This group is a community driven organization that focuses on mentoring, volunteerism and establishing relationships with community leaders.

With a vision to create an imprint of lasting positive change in our community, Sharefest began as a simple idea to leverage a community’s assets through the creation of working coalitions, growing local leaders, equipping interested youth and fostering volunteerism utilizing established community organizations. Rather than just coming in from the outside and encourage a community to be a consumer of services, Sharefest collaborates with communities to help themselves, developing ownership.

Thankfully a reader (Thanks, Cathy!) was able to pass along some photos and video that you can see below.

Saturday's dinner exceeded their fundraising goal of $250,000.00 by $5,000.00. So, in addition to being a great time, they also gained some needed funds to continue their mission. BTW, Kershaw's Challenge chose Sharefest as one of the charities that they support. In fact they

Set a goal to expand Sharefest’s Youth Development Academy (YDA) to another continuation high school.

Clayton and Ellen Kershaw visited a Sharefest YDA at Cal State Dominguez Hills earlier this year in order to provide kids with Baseball and life advice. Watch a video of that event here.

Below are some photos from Saturday's dinner. Go to the Sharefest website to learn about this great organization.