NEWS: Announcing: A New Fund-Raising Program for
Five 4 Five That Can Help Your Family, Too!

“Because Life is a Wild Ride”
Mary Ann Maggiore – Advising Families, Teens and New Adults; Introductory Session $50

Five 4 Five is starting a practice advising families, teens and new adults in making positive life choices. This service will benefit Five 4 Five supporting kids from underserved neighborhoods getting into and through college. The mission statement of this new venture is: “Because Life is a Wild Ride.” It consists of workshops and one-on-one consulting to help families and young people get into college, find meaningful careers, locate mentors that can help them launch. If you are interested, contact Mary Ann Maggiore by phone at 415-460-1106 or maggiore@five4five.org. If you want more information, read on!

Five 4 Five’s New Advising Practice for Families, Teens and New Adults: “Because Life is a Wild Ride”

As we all know life can be wonderful, scary, illuminating. The critical years of entering adulthood often need the guidance of someone who knows what success is like and can guide others to it. We of Five 4 Five have proven our ability to help young people make it in the world. We are expanding our advisory services as a money raising project for Five 4 Five.

Here’s how you can help. If you know of friends, colleagues, teens or twenty-something new adults who are having trouble in making career decisions or in taking a new, healthier path in life, you can tell them about our services and how we work:

• This work is a consulting practice not psychotherapy. It is designed to use my 20 years experience mentoring young people to become sane and successful adults. As chief consultant, I help families and young people create positive career choices, network and gain support from peers and business and education professionals who stand ready to help them. With this boost, young people will be able to choose meaningful work so they can take pride in what they ultimately do for a living.

• I have significant experience in:

– Guiding 32 at-risk students into and through college and trade programs through my work with Five 4 Five;

– Directing Girl Scouts Save the Bay which has helped 50,000 young people work in green programs and find their ways toward green careers;

– Leading the Town of Fairfax as Mayor and as Founder of the highly successful Youth and Alcohol Task Force;

– Raising two phenomenally successful young people who took two very distinct paths and life: One went straight from high school into college with a scholarship at one of the country’s most prestigious schools; one took a GED and at 18 started a business on Broadway in New York City.

• Though this is a non-religious approach to problem solving, I have extensive experience in pastoral counseling from my training in the Ministry, that gives me the basis of my practice.

• My hours are Tuesday evenings and Saturday mornings in my home in Fairfax

• Fees are payable to Five 4 Five. This means that the money paid for each session goes to help others. As my clients are helping themselves they are also helping other families and young people.

I believe there are many paths to success in this world. Much can be done if we spend the time, the energy and the resources to guide young people in a direction that works!

MaryAnn Maggiore, President and Executive Director, Five 4 Five

Mary Ann Maggiore has long been committed to issues of youth of all backgrounds. As Founder and first President of Five 4 Five, an educational non-profit for at-risk youth, she has been cited in the Los Angeles Times, Marin Independent Journal, and other media for her success helping young people enter and succeed in college. As Mayor of Fairfax in Marin County, she led the Youth and Alcohol Task Force, which helped teens find new paths to community service through music and the arts. At the same time, she has served as Director of Girl Scouts Save the Bay, helping over 50,000 girls look to new ways to clean up the environment through service and green careers. A former communications consultant to the Federal Reserve Bank, Autodesk and Wells Fargo Bank, Ms. Maggiore has extensive business experience. Ms. Maggiore has a BA in History from Swarthmore College and a Masters of Divinity from the Graduate Theological Union in Berkeley.