Success Center Club Pizza Fundraiser

A campus pizza sale sounds small, but this one tells you a lot about how student life at Cerritos College is being built from the ground up. The Success Center Club held its “It’s Pizza Time” fundraiser on Tuesday, May 5, from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m., using the event to raise money for an annual club scholarship, club gear, and an end-of-year celebration. The event was listed through the college’s FalConnect platform, and the club’s public page shows a young group that has been growing its presence on campus. ### What is this fundraiser actually for? The short version is simple — pizza, chips, and drinks were being sold to fund club activities. But the important detail is where the money is supposed to go. This was not framed as a generic social event. The club said the fundraiser would support an annual scholarship, branded club gear, and its year-end celebration, which means the pitch was partly about community and partly about building something that lasts beyond one lunch hour. ### What is the Success Center Club? It’s one of the newer student organizations at Cerritos College, and it sits close to the school’s academic-support ecosystem. At spring 2025 Club Rush, Talon Marks described the Success Center Club as the newest club there, focused on “FALCON Habits of the Mind” and academic and career success. The club’s own page says members can shape Success Center initiatives, work with peers and tutors, and pick up leadership experience. Basically, this is not a hobby club first — it is built around student support and campus engagement. ### Why does a pizza sale matter? Because student clubs usually start with very ordinary fundraising before they can do anything more ambitious. Scholarships, giveaways, travel, speaker events, even matching shirts for visibility — all of that costs money. A club that can turn a simple food sale into recurring support is a club trying to become durable. That matters more at a commuter campus, where it can be harder to keep students connected outside class. The fundraiser is small-scale, but the logic behind it is bigger. ### Was this a one-off event? Apparently not. The club’s events page showed more than one “It’s Pizza Time” listing, including an April 21 event and the May 5 fundraiser. That suggests the group has been using repeat tabling or food-sale events as a regular fundraising tool rather than a one-day experiment. Repetition matters here — if students keep seeing the same club in the same lunch window, the club becomes part of campus routine. ### Where does Kincaid Field fit in? Kincaid Field is a recognizable spot on the Cerritos College campus, best known as the home of the baseball program. Talon Marks sports coverage this spring repeatedly identified it as the site of Cerritos baseball games in Norwalk, and college materials place public art at the entrance to the field. So even if the event listing itself hides the exact map pin unless you sign in, the context points to a visible, high-traffic campus location rather than a tucked-away room. ### Is the club actually established yet? It looks early, but real. The club page shows 62 members, three officers, 33 events, and 11 newsletters. Those numbers do not make it one of the giant campus organizations, but they do show structure. And structure is the hard part for a new club — officers, repeat meetings, repeat events, and a reason for students to come back. ### So what’s the real takeaway? The fundraiser itself is straightforward — sell lunch, raise money, support the club. But the bigger story is that the Success Center Club seems to be moving from “new club at Club Rush” into something more permanent. A pizza table can look like a tiny campus footnote. Turns out it is also how a student organization funds scholarships, builds identity, and proves it plans to stick around.