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Annual Report 2005-06 1996-2006
Ten Years Sharing the
Power
of Play

Risa Lavizzo-Mourey
M.D., M.B.A
President and CEO
Robert Wood Johnson
Foundation
Schools and communities should not
only preserve but expand opportunities
for kids to play. The Robert Wood
Johnson Foundation is supporting
the national replication of Sports4Kids
because this organization is effectively
leveling the playing field for all children
to lead happier, healthier and more
successful lives.

Jill C. Vialet
Founder and
Executive Director
Dear Friend of Sports4Kids,
When we started Sports4Kids just over ten years ago, we thought that sending someone
in to the local schools during lunchtime and recess was a good idea. We thought
we were coming up with a good way to help a few local schools increase opportunities
for kids to play. That was 1996. And now in 2006 we realize that it was much
more than just a good local idea. Our mission – to improve the health and wellbeing
of children by increasing opportunities for physical activity and safe, meaningful
play – places Sports4Kids at the fore of a significant educational movement.
Teachers, parents, pediatricians, and the rest of us who care about kids are calling for
an end to the disturbing decline in opportunities for play – both during and after the
school day. Policy makers and community leaders alike are recognizing the need for
safe and inclusive playgrounds.
Enter Sports4Kids…
Over the past ten years we grew from two schools to 81 in 2005-06; from a staff of one
half-time person to 107 full-time employees; from programs reaching a couple hundred
kids to over 32,000 kids daily. We expanded the training we’d developed for our own
staff, so we could help other adults (in schools, community organizations, and youth
programs) understand the critical importance of play for children’s development and
learn easy strategies for making play happen.
In addition to bringing play back to playgrounds in schools across the country, we
sent staff to Mumbai, India, and Cape Town, South Africa, to demonstrate the transformative
power of play. In the wake of Hurricane Katrina we sent staff to Houston
to play with kids housed at the Astrodome – an effort to bring a little normalcy
and joy to a situation otherwise devoid of it. We also launched a new program in
Baltimore, and our plans for continued growth, including Boston and Washington,
D.C., are ambitious and far-reaching.
We learned a great deal these past ten years and had a lot of fun doing it. We have
grown and changed and struggled. This annual report looks not just at the past year,
but represents a decade of accomplishments. Our hope is that after you read it, you’ll
understand more about who we are, where we’ve been, and where we are going.
Looking back just makes me all the more convinced about the potential for
Sports4Kids’ future. I invite you to join us in pursuing the grandest of visions – to
make it possible for every child in this country to have the opportunity for safe,
meaningful play – every day.
Please read on,
Jill C. Vialet
Founder and Executive Director

play is powerful.
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Children learn and develop through play.
They discover how their bodies work. They
practice getting along with others. They
create games, make up rules and engage their
peers and their imaginations.
In fact, play is so critical to a healthy
childhood that the United Nations High
Commission for Human Rights has identified
play as a right for every child.
Yet children don’t get to play like they
used to.
REMEMBER RECESS?
Most of us have positive memories of recess –
happy children laughing, playgrounds full
of four-square, tag and flag football. Sadly,
children all across the country are having a
very different experience.
Many children are coming to school not
knowing how to engage in healthy play.
They haven’t grown up learning games and
don’t know how to resolve the small disputes
that arise when playing with others. This
leads to conflict and fighting for some. Other
children only feel safe on the sidelines staying,
as best they can, out of harm’s way.
As a result recess has become a source of
frustration for teachers. Discipline issues are
prevalent in classrooms as kids return to class
agitated by unresolved conflicts and chaos.
Given these concerns school districts have
drastically reduced or even eliminated recess
altogether.
THE NATION TAKES NOTICE
A 2006 study by the National Center for
Education Statistics found that children who
attend low-income schools get only 66% as
much time on the playground as their middle
and upper class peers.
Results of this trend are troubling at best.
Limiting opportunities for healthy, active
play translates into increased health risks.
Rates of childhood obesity and diabetes are
growing at alarming rates, compelling the
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
to demand that schools facilitate a minimum
of 60 minutes of physical activity each day
for children.
There is now a national conversation
about what Sports4Kids has known for a
decade: opportunities for safe, meaningful
and active play are critical to our children’s
health and well-being. Through play, children
build healthy bodies and healthy minds
– and have fun along the way.
61% of teachers say students are
more focused in the classroom since
partnering with Sports4Kids.

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Mary Fay LaMartina
Principal
Belmont Elementary
Baltimore, Maryland
Within just a few months of coming
to Belmont Elementary, Sports4Kids
radically changed our playground. Kids
started playing together, getting along
and solving problems. I was dealing with
less discipline problems, and the whole
school became a more positive place.

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Sports4Kids
champions play.
Since 1996, Sports4Kids has been organizing,
leading, and teaching play-based physical
activities in low-income schools. In these
environments Sports4Kids transforms chaos
and dysfunction into organized fun. The
result is permanent and powerful change in
children’s health and well being – every day.
PLAY IS TRANSFORMING CHILDREN
When Sports4Kids first arrives at a school,
our Site Coordinator often faces a disorganized
playground. Children either are struggling
to start games or choose to physically
remove themselves from uninviting confusion.
Recess is unsatisfying for both groups
of children.
With Sports4Kids on-site Monday through
Friday, things quickly change. Our Site
Coordinator integrates the transformative
power of play into the whole day – before,
during and after school. These “playground
heroes” teach kids tools such as rock-paperscissors
to resolve conflicts and keep games
going. After a few weeks of daily encouragement
and game instruction we see significant
changes in the children. Those who previously
stood on the sidelines have been infected by
contagious enthusiasm.
Children quickly become physically active
in an organized and safe way. They become
noticeably confident as they take on leadership
roles and learn problem-solving, selfdiscipline
and respect for themselves and
others.
As a result the playground becomes positive
and energetic. And kids aren’t the only ones
who feel it.
PLAY IS TRANSFORMING
CLASSROOMS
Ask any teacher at a Sports4Kids school
about the change on the playground, and
they will enthusiastically describe the transformation
within the learning environment.
With the involvement of Sports4Kids, the
post-recess classroom is filled with children
who are responding to being active in many
positive ways. Detentions and disruptive
behaviors are reduced, and students return to
the classroom ready to learn. Children once
agitated by conflict and tension from lack of
physical activity are relaxed and focused.
Teachers and principals report improvement
in students’ ability to concentrate and overall
improvement in behavior with others
during class-time. More than half the teachers
we surveyed believe Sports4Kids actually
increases school attendance.
Scientific research backs up our experience,
linking increases in physical activity
to improved focus and attention in the classroom,
providing additional evidence for the
value of organized play. As a result, the health
and educational communities are coming
together to call for increased attention to
children’s need for play.
Sports4Kids offers a vibrant and living
example of what a difference play can make
in schools.
88% of schools request that
Sports4Kids return each year.
94% of principals say that since
Sports4Kids came to their school,
students are more physically active.

PLAY IS TRANSFORMING
COMMUNITIES
Children who learn to play with
Sports4Kids take that lesson home
with them. They come to understand
that play and sports are about a lot
more than winning and losing. They
learn that cooperating with friends in
order to play is satisfying and fun.
Teamwork, healthy competition, and
the joy of mastering new skills all contribute
to an increased sense of pride
and accomplishment, improving their
lives beyond the boundaries of their
school.
While Sports4Kids’ mission is to
directly impact children, we hear
often from adults about the difference
Sports4Kids has made in their own
lives. From the Mom who didn’t know
her daughter could dribble a basketball
to the teacher who has learned to
engage her students in positive play,
Sports4Kids is inspiring adults as well
as children.
On any given weekday evening,
hundreds of students and their parents
fill gymnasiums to participate in
Sports4Kids interscholastic leagues –
proving that given the opportunity
play can inspire communities beyond
school walls.
Brenda Tuohy
Teacher
Think College Now
Oakland, CA
I have never seen a school with
such active children. Sports4Kids
makes sports and physical activity
accessible and enjoyable for all
students, and that’s such a lasting
gift for them.

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A Coach Inspired
by David Gilmore
THE WING MAN
When I imagined myself as a basketball
coach, I always assumed I’d be
dishing out nuggets of world-weary
wisdom, wearing a blazer, being
hoisted up by my players, and graciously
shaking hands with the other
coach as I confidently strode off the
court (which, of course would be
named after me).
This all changed the minute I
actually became a basketball coach,
just one of my responsibilities as a
Sports4Kids’ Site Coordinator in
Baltimore, Maryland.
My squad was supposed to be made
up of twelve Brehms Lane Beavers
pulled from the ranks of the fourth
and fifth grade girls. I had no idea
what I was working with. I hadn’t
seen a single kid at the school shoot
a basketball, and they, as most
pre-adolescent girls are, were more
concerned with gossip and glitter
than my ill-conceived plans of
running Syracuse’s 2-3 Pressure zone.
Still, I managed to get thirteen girls
to sign on the dotted line.
FULL COURT PRESS
So we met for our first practice. They
were green, oh yes, but they were
enthusiastic. And they loved to
bounce the ball. Loved it. Bounce
the ball when Coach David is talking,
bounce the ball when we’re
walking through the halls, bounce
the ball when Coach David wants it
put away, bounce the ball when we’re
waiting to be picked up, bounce the
ball in the car, bounce the ball on
the bench.
There was only one problem: I had
nowhere for them to bounce the ball.
Our practice area consisted of a 12 X
20 patch of concrete on the outdoor
playground that rested in front of a
set of monkey bars, serving as a
makeshift goal. We might as well
have been throwing the ball up in
the air and saying “well, I think that
would’ve gone in.” My troops’ spirit
was not broken though, despite the
icy winds of a Baltimore February.
When the elements became too
unbearable, we had to go inside.
With the gym occupied, my creative
improvisation as a Sports4Kids coach
(a vital asset to the job, if you ask
me) was put to the test. Before long,
we were dribbling an obstacle course
through the halls of the (mostly)
vacant school, passing through hula
hoops, defensively sliding between
rows of lockers and having our team
meetings in the teachers’ cafeteria
(shhh). Mr. Eckles, who wasn’t even
a teacher of any of the girls, joined
us, lending a similar passion for the
game to the mix. By the time our first
game rolled around, Mrs. Perzinski,
several of the girls’ fourth grade
teacher, offered to drive. Perhaps, I
thought, this will actually happen.
I was worried about so many
things. I worried that we wouldn’t
have enough players, that the girls
wouldn’t have a ride to the game,
that I would forget to put someone in
the game, that the other team would
rout us (despite the fact that no score
was kept), that Brehms Lane would
decide it wasn’t safe to travel, that
one of my girls would bite the referee
if he made an unfair call, etc.

THE REBOUND
I breathed these worries out en masse
the first time my girls cheered for
their teammates during the opening
introductions. I did it again when
they politely made a circle with the
other team and went over the rules. I
exhaled yet again when we completed
our first bounce pass. Once again
when Destiny made our first basket.
Again, and again, when Sherica
made our second and third, and was
patted on the back and cheered on
by every member of our team, despite
the fact the other team was trying to
bring the ball back up the court at
the time. I think I shed a tear the
first time we got back on defense and
positioned ourselves in a perfect 2-3,
all five players in defensive stances.
They were addicted to being on
the court. The same girls who had
asked me not to go in were now begging
to start. They were in a frenzy
the entire time they were out there,
shuffling their sneakers, keeping their
arms up on defense, and dribbling
with confidence. They finally had
somewhere to bounce the ball.
THE TROPHY
I’m a man who keeps very few valuables.
However, the picture of me
and my Brehms Lane Beavers is
something I will never, ever lose. It’s
almost comical, when you really look
at it. Here are the thirteen girls in
maroon shirts, none of them five feet
tall, hamming it up for the camera,
smiling ear to ear. And behind them
is this large, pale man with a scruffy
red beard, shaggy hair, a t-shirt and
jeans. He’s smiling ear to ear too,
because his kids shook hands with
the other team, played their hardest,
and had fun that night. He’s not
wearing a blazer, and he definitely
didn’t get hoisted anywhere. He’s just
happy to be there. That experience is
something I will always treasure.
Jaycelle Pequette
Site Coordinator
Le Conte Elementary
Berkeley, CA
This is a job where every day the
energy you put in comes back to
you in an immediate way.

Sports4Kids is
bringing play back.
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WINNING THE GAME
Sports4Kids started with two schools in
1996. Ten years later, during the 2005-06
school year, Sports4Kids served 81 schools
in the greater San Francisco Bay Area and
Baltimore, Maryland.
The success of the Sports4Kids program
is due in part to an ongoing and thoughtful
refinement of the teaching model over the
last decade. The unique hands-on program
has grown in both scope and scale to include
five standard program components delivered
during and after school. These components
are facilitated by a Site Coordinator who
works full days, Monday through Friday.
RECESS
During recess each Site Coordinator organizes
the physical space of the playground to
accommodate a safe and appropriate number
of games. They teach rules to dozens of games
over the course of the year and facilitate
conflict resolution to encourage children to
play on their own.
CLASS GAME TIME
Teachers and their students spend an hour
with their Site Coordinator on a weekly or
bi-weekly basis working through a carefullycrafted
curriculum. The components of the
curriculum include games, basic skill-building
activities, and opportunities for cooperative
play.
JUNIOR COACH PROGRAM
The Junior Coach program encourages older
children to develop leadership skills by
coaching other children. They receive specialized
training on resolving conflicts and
initiating games from their Site Coordinator.
AFTER SCHOOL PROGRAM
Four days a week, Sports4Kids offers a structured
program in the after school hours that
includes homework support, healthy snacks,
and organized games.
INTERSCHOLASTIC LEAGUES
Girls and boys form teams to play sports like
basketball, volleyball, and flag football in
healthy competition with children from other
schools. Parents and school staff attend games
that emphasize having fun and building skills.
87% of principals at first year Sports4Kids
schools report that the number of fights on the
playground decreased from the prior year.

Sports4Kids 2006 sources and uses of funds
THE GOAL OF THE GAMES
Sports4Kids relies on a diversified funding
model for sustainability. Schools pay 43%
of the cost of the program which ensures a
stable base of funding for growth. The other
57% is a mix of private foundation, government,
corporate and individual support.
Our vision is big, and our success continues
to propel us forward toward ambitious goals
of reaching more children and schools.
2006 SOURCES OF FUNDS
43%
Revenue from schools
77% of students
served are eligible for
free or reduced-price
lunch, a proxy for
low-income status.
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1%
Other revenue and support
30%
Foundation grants 9%
Contributions
17%
Government grants
Total sources of funds: $4,190,500
2006 USES OF FUNDS
82%
Program
3%
Fundraising
15%
General and
administrative
Our program costs
just $127 to serve
one child for a full
school year.
Total uses of funds: $4,128,700

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our strength
is our service.
THE PLAYERS
The single most important factor in
Sports4Kids’ success is our people.
Our Site Coordinators take their responsibilities
very seriously. They understand the
critical link between play and children’s
health and well-being. Every day they come
to their schools ready to lead games with
enthusiasm and a keen sense of what really
makes a playground engaging and fun.
Every Site Coordinator completes intensive
training prior to the first day of the
school year and continues with bi-weekly
professional development. This training
includes not only the “what” and “how” of
delivering the Sports4Kids program, but
also in-depth discussions of the principles
of successful youth development programs.
They practice by addressing issues of race,
class, and gender with children. They are
constantly attentive to building positive
relationships with each child at their schools.
Many of our first year Site Coordinators
are AmeriCorps members providing a year
of service supported by the Corporation for
National Service. For these Site Coordinators,
a year with Sports4Kids embodies the values
of service. They work directly with children
to improve their lives, contributing to the
life of the school communities where they
serve, and learning about the democratic
values and processes of our country.
Most importantly, our staff cares about
kids. They believe that every child deserves
the chance to play every day, regardless of
the neighborhood they live in or the resources
each school can provide.
Ms. Simon
Teacher
Verde Elementary
Richmond, CA
Many students try harder in
the classroom because the
Sports4Kids coach has high
expectations for them. I think
the coach and the program
have a tremendous positive
impact on our school.

Sports4Kids individual donors 2005-06 *
Linda Adinolfi
Mike Allison
Gretchen Anderson
Tim Anderson
Anonymous
Art's Automotive
Nancy Bailey
Karen & Jeff Banks
S. Leigh Barton
Henry & Sue Bass
Annette Clear &
Michael Beggert
Joanna Berg
Lucy Bernholz
Rosemary Bero
Frank Beville
Steven & Emily Birenbaum
Jose Blackorby
Rebecca Pratt Bleich
Walter Blount Jr
Karen Boezi
Roxanne Borcich
Chris Bordeeaux
Patricia Bresee
Christine Broderick
Jennifer Brokaw
Todd Schafer & Molly
Brostrom
Alice B. Brown
Amanda Brown-Stevens
Helene & David Buchen
Robert, Carol, & Janet Burdick
Karen Butterfield
Marie Cabot
Wendy Caporicci
Aline Carroll
Catherine Cartier
John & Agnes Caulfield
Felix Chan
Che Garcia & Allyson Cimini
Liz Clark
Tom & Elizabeth Clark
John Clauss
David Clayton
Kim Cobb
Roger & Marilee Cole
Shanna Connor
Jennifer Crawford
Hilary Crosby
Nestor& Julie Cuellas
Doug Cushing
Laura & Sean Cushing
Tim Cushing
Tom & Jane David
Beverly Gregg & Philip Davis
Everette Donlon
The Dosa Family
Cecilia Echeverria
Susan Ehrlich
Tony & Deborah Eistetter
Les Ekman
Jillian Ellis
Richard Engles
Dianne Leiker &
Howard Ervin
Jennifer Flanigan &
Leah Waarvik
Bianca Dibartolo &
Glenn Forrester
Angela Franzero
Theodore & Harriet Fredman
Steve & Marion Fredman
Thomas & Sandra Friedland
Stan & Mary Friedman
Kathleen Gadway
Nicole Gallagher
William & Susan Garratt
Jason Gerlach
Pamela Molsick &
Helen Gibson
Jennifer Gilbert
Linda Gilbert
Sidney Glass
Michele & David Glass
Linda Chung & Mark Golan
Marilyn & Amos Goldhaber
Robert Gonzalez
David & Ann Goodwin
Kim Green
Jane Hammond
Maureen Hanawalt
Meghan Hanawalt
Robert Whitehill &
Ingrid Happoldt
Louise & Terry Hartsock
Nancy Blair Harvey
Tim & Robin Hassler
William Hester
Stefan Highsmith
Aurora Hill
Jeffrey Hill
Sonja Hoel
Todd Hoffman
Frances and Rick Holsinger
Revell Horsey
Stuart & Colleen Hoskins
Abby Irwin
Henry Izumizaki
Gloria Jenkins
Marion Jetson
Altonette Jones
Fonda Jones
Sheila Jordan
Sam Karp
Karen & Gavin Keith
John Keller
John & Elizabeth Kilgallon
Lisa & Richard Kirkby
Harvey & Abbey Kletz
Jess Kletz
Kyle Kosup
Nancy Griffin &
Bryce Kranzthor
Karen A. Kuhlthau
E. A. LaBelle
Peter & Sabrina Landreth
Jalyn & Lance Lang
Margaret Laws
Edward & Margaret Laws
Tom Lee
Joshua Lenhert
Edgar Lew
Suzan Liao
Wm. Thomas Lockard, Trustee
David Long
Melissa Lucas
Diane Lundquist
Jennifer Anne Lutz
Ted & LeeAnn Lyman
Joel Magpantay
Wendy Wutman & Jeff Mandel
Helen Marcus
Michael Darby & Toni Martin
Diane Martin
Luis Martinez
Larry Masket
Juliana Mayer
Morgan Mayfield
Tom McGowan
R.B. Mendelson
Dale & Alison Miller
Jadine Mitchell
Jane Mitchell
Dean Moriyama
Bentley Moyer
Stacey Murphy
John & Barbara Nikcevich
Mark North
Chris Ohman
Frank Stumpf &
Deborah Owen
Thomas Pak
Frank Panacci
Ana Maria Park
Margaret Partlow
Yogesh & Yana Patel
Leon Pete
Henry Miller &
Connie Philipp
Hollis Phillips
David & Naomi Pockell
Claudia Polsky
Marie Poole
Greg & Susan Raifman
Colleen Reilly
Steven Reinhardt
Fred Robanser
Toni Adams & James Robinson
Kenneth Rogers
Nancy Rupprect
Ronald Sattui
Lisa Parks & Ted Scherman
Tom Seawell
Mark Seiler
Steve & Debby Senter
Stacey Shaw
Merritt Sher
Hiram Simon
Terry Smalley
Mark D. Smith
Rose Spencer
Kathleen Stafford
Eric Stockel
Carol Studier
Susan & William Studier
Claire Suguro
Andrea Sullivan
Lauren & Eric Tao
Wendell & Deborah Taylor
William Tennant &
Gail Houghton Tennant
Chris Thompson
James Thompson
Howard & Barbara Traylor
Frances Holsinger
Okoro Umozurike
Harold VanWart
Clara Villatoro
Jeremy Wagner
Warren D. Walton
David Jones & Vicki Weeks
Joy Weiss
Howard L. White
Lona Tracee Whitley
Jim & Katie Whitty
Clare Willis
Alba Witkin
Merry Wood
Rebecca Worley
Gordon Wright
*Individual contributions of $100 or more. We apologize if we have
inadvertently omitted your name. If that is the case, please contact us
so we can correct our records.
Sports4Kids is a 4-star charity according to
Charity Navigator, representing the highest possible
rating of financial health.
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moving the ball
forward.
SPORTS4KIDS –
EXPANDING ITS REACH
This year Sports4Kids expanded outside
of the San Francisco Bay Area for the first
time. In response to repeated requests
from educators and community leaders in
Baltimore, we opened six new schools in
the fall of 2005. To date, our experience in
Baltimore has been fantastic – children
have responded enthusiastically to our
unique brand of play while the grown-ups
who care about them – principals, teachers,
and families – report visible signs of
improvement.
In November 2005, the Robert Wood
Johnson Foundation (RWJF) made a
significant investment in Sports4Kids.
This $4.4 million grant over three years is
dedicated specifically to national expansion,
support of programs in three new cities
as well as Baltimore, and the staffing of a
national office in Oakland, California.
The partnership with RWJF marks a new
period of growth for our organization and
the first step toward realizing our vision of
bringing safe, meaningful play to thousands
of more children nationwide.
As a result, Sports4Kids is opening new
offices in Boston and Washington D.C.
for the 2006-07 school year, with plans to
introduce our program in the Southeast in
2007-08. We are also expanding our reach
in California, with new schools in San Jose
and Redwood City, with potential for further
growth beyond the San Francisco Bay Area
to other parts of the state.
Number of
students served
STUDENTS SERVED BY YEAR
30,000
15,000
Y
Number of scho
1 1 1 2 2 2 2 2 2 2006
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Sports4Kids institutional supporters 2005-06
AEGON/Transamerica
Foundation
AmeriCorps
Ashoka
Barstow Family Fund
Bay Area Sports Hall of Fame
Berkeley Community Fund
Chapman & Associates
Dornbusch Philanthropic Fund
Electronic Arts Foundation
Evelyn & Walter Haas, Jr. Fund
Fenwick Foundation
James Irvine Foundation
Lowell Berry Foundation
Mendelson Family Fund
Morris Stulsaft Foundation
Morrison Foerster Foundation
Oakland Fund for Children
& Youth
Olympic Club Foundation
Open Society Institute (OSI)
Philanthropic Ventures
Foundation
Poncelet Family Fund
Reach-A-Star Foundation
Robert Wood Johnson
Foundation
San Francisco Foundation
SH Cowell Foundation
Team Up For Youth
US Department of Agriculture
Wayne & Gladys Valley
Foundation
Western Athletic Clubs
Women’s Sports Foundation
Y & H Soda Foundation
Yahoo! Employee Foundation
Zach Fund
Sports4Kids board of directors 2005-06
Margaret Laws, Board Chair
Director of Public Financing
& Policy, California
HealthCare Foundation
Toni Adams, Assistant
to the Superintendent,
Alameda County Office
of Education
Steve Fredman, Physician
Kaiser Permanente
David Long, Board Treasurer
Director of Business
Development, Laureate
Education, Inc.
Julie Mayer, Director of
Internet Services
Robert Half International
Roger Mendelson, Psychiatrist
Mark Seiler, Metrovation
Mark Smith, Board Secretary
General Counsel, Structure
Consulting Group, LLC
Carol Studier, Senior
Research Associate
EdSource
Sports4Kids is a 501c3 nonprofit
organization. All donations are
tax-deductible.
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Darlene Hall
Program Officer
Evelyn and Walter
Haas Jr. Fund
I don’t think there is any organization
that has the breadth and scope that
Sports4Kids has; it reaches thousands
of kids every day. It has the respect
of the schools, and it has been around
longer than most… it’s not going away.

2005-06 SCHOOL LIST BY CITY
Alameda, CA
Henry Haight
Washington
Woodstock
Baltimore, MD
Belmont
Brehms Lane
Holabird
KIPP Ujima
Medfield Heights
Martin Luther King, Jr
Berkeley, CA
Emerson
Le Conte
Rosa Parks
Thousand Oaks
Washington
El Cerrito, CA
Fairmont
Emeryville, CA
Anna Yates
Oakland, CA
Allendale
Ascend
Bella Vista
Burckhalter
Brookfield
Calvin Simmons
Cox
Dolores Huerta
Edna Brewer
Emerson
Explore
Franklin
Garfield
Hawthorne
Highland
Hoover
Horace Mann
International Community
Jefferson
La Escuelita
Lakeview
Lighthouse Community
Lincoln
Lockwood
Manzanita
Manzanita Seed
Markham
Maxwell Park
Melrose Leadership Academy
Monarch Academy
Oasis
Parker
Peralta
Piedmont Avenue
Rock La Fleche
Stonehurst
Think College Now
Urban Promise Academy
Westlake
Whittier
Woodland
Richmond, CA
Coronado
Downer
Grant
Highland
Peres
Stege
Verde
San Pablo, CA
Lake
San Francisco, CA
Aim High
Bret Harte
Buena Vista
Cobb
ER Taylor
Fairmount
Hillcrest
Malcolm X
Mira Loma
Monroe
Sherman
Tenderloin
Vallejo, CA
Widenmann
Other, CA
Seneca Center (Fremont)
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Carol Monda
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