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Annual Report 2005-06 1996-2006<br />
Ten Years Sharing the<br />
Power<br />
of Play
Risa Lavizzo-Mourey<br />
M.D., M.B.A<br />
President and CEO<br />
Robert Wood Johnson<br />
Foundation<br />
Schools and communities should not<br />
only preserve but expand opportunities<br />
for kids to play. The Robert Wood<br />
Johnson Foundation is supporting<br />
the national replication of Sports4Kids<br />
because this organization is effectively<br />
leveling the playing field for all children<br />
to lead happier, healthier and more<br />
successful lives.
Jill C. Vialet<br />
Founder and<br />
Executive Director<br />
Dear Friend of Sports4Kids,<br />
When we started Sports4Kids just over ten years ago, we thought that sending someone<br />
in to the local schools during lunchtime and recess was a good idea. We thought<br />
we were coming up with a good way to help a few local schools increase opportunities<br />
for kids to play. That was 1996. And now in 2006 we realize that it was much<br />
more than just a good local idea. Our mission – to improve the health and wellbeing<br />
of children by increasing opportunities for physical activity and safe, meaningful<br />
play – places Sports4Kids at the fore of a significant educational movement.<br />
Teachers, parents, pediatricians, and the rest of us who care about kids are calling for<br />
an end to the disturbing decline in opportunities for play – both during and after the<br />
school day. Policy makers and community leaders alike are recognizing the need for<br />
safe and inclusive playgrounds.<br />
Enter Sports4Kids…<br />
Over the past ten years we grew from two schools to 81 in 2005-06; from a staff of one<br />
half-time person to 107 full-time employees; from programs reaching a couple hundred<br />
kids to over 32,000 kids daily. We expanded the training we’d developed for our own<br />
staff, so we could help other adults (in schools, community organizations, and youth<br />
programs) understand the critical importance of play for children’s development and<br />
learn easy strategies for making play happen.<br />
In addition to bringing play back to playgrounds in schools across the country, we<br />
sent staff to Mumbai, India, and Cape Town, South Africa, to demonstrate the transformative<br />
power of play. In the wake of Hurricane Katrina we sent staff to Houston<br />
to play with kids housed at the Astrodome – an effort to bring a little normalcy<br />
and joy to a situation otherwise devoid of it. We also launched a new program in<br />
Baltimore, and our plans for continued growth, including Boston and Washington,<br />
D.C., are ambitious and far-reaching.<br />
We learned a great deal these past ten years and had a lot of fun doing it. We have<br />
grown and changed and struggled. This annual report looks not just at the past year,<br />
but represents a decade of accomplishments. Our hope is that after you read it, you’ll<br />
understand more about who we are, where we’ve been, and where we are going.<br />
Looking back just makes me all the more convinced about the potential for<br />
Sports4Kids’ future. I invite you to join us in pursuing the grandest of visions – to<br />
make it possible for every child in this country to have the opportunity for safe,<br />
meaningful play – every day.<br />
Please read on,<br />
Jill C. Vialet<br />
Founder and Executive Director
play is powerful.<br />
4<br />
Children learn and develop through play.<br />
They discover how their bodies work. They<br />
practice getting along with others. They<br />
create games, make up rules and engage their<br />
peers and their imaginations.<br />
In fact, play is so critical to a healthy<br />
childhood that the United Nations High<br />
Commission for Human Rights has identified<br />
play as a right for every child.<br />
Yet children don’t get to play like they<br />
used to.<br />
REMEMBER RECESS?<br />
Most of us have positive memories of recess –<br />
happy children laughing, playgrounds full<br />
of four-square, tag and flag football. Sadly,<br />
children all across the country are having a<br />
very different experience.<br />
Many children are coming to school not<br />
knowing how to engage in healthy play.<br />
They haven’t grown up learning games and<br />
don’t know how to resolve the small disputes<br />
that arise when playing with others. This<br />
leads to conflict and fighting for some. Other<br />
children only feel safe on the sidelines staying,<br />
as best they can, out of harm’s way.<br />
As a result recess has become a source of<br />
frustration for teachers. Discipline issues are<br />
prevalent in classrooms as kids return to class<br />
agitated by unresolved conflicts and chaos.<br />
Given these concerns school districts have<br />
drastically reduced or even eliminated recess<br />
altogether.<br />
THE NATION TAKES NOTICE<br />
A 2006 study by the National Center for<br />
Education Statistics found that children who<br />
attend low-income schools get only 66% as<br />
much time on the playground as their middle<br />
and upper class peers.<br />
Results of this trend are troubling at best.<br />
Limiting opportunities for healthy, active<br />
play translates into increased health risks.<br />
Rates of childhood obesity and diabetes are<br />
growing at alarming rates, compelling the<br />
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention<br />
to demand that schools facilitate a minimum<br />
of 60 minutes of physical activity each day<br />
for children.<br />
There is now a national conversation<br />
about what Sports4Kids has known for a<br />
decade: opportunities for safe, meaningful<br />
and active play are critical to our children’s<br />
health and well-being. Through play, children<br />
build healthy bodies and healthy minds<br />
– and have fun along the way.<br />
61% of teachers say students are<br />
more focused in the classroom since<br />
partnering with Sports4Kids.
5 5<br />
Mary Fay LaMartina<br />
Principal<br />
Belmont Elementary<br />
Baltimore, Maryland<br />
Within just a few months of coming<br />
to Belmont Elementary, Sports4Kids<br />
radically changed our playground. Kids<br />
started playing together, getting along<br />
and solving problems. I was dealing with<br />
less discipline problems, and the whole<br />
school became a more positive place.
6<br />
Sports4Kids<br />
champions play.<br />
Since 1996, Sports4Kids has been organizing,<br />
leading, and teaching play-based physical<br />
activities in low-income schools. In these<br />
environments Sports4Kids transforms chaos<br />
and dysfunction into organized fun. The<br />
result is permanent and powerful change in<br />
children’s health and well being – every day.<br />
PLAY IS TRANSFORMING CHILDREN<br />
When Sports4Kids first arrives at a school,<br />
our Site Coordinator often faces a disorganized<br />
playground. Children either are struggling<br />
to start games or choose to physically<br />
remove themselves from uninviting confusion.<br />
Recess is unsatisfying for both groups<br />
of children.<br />
With Sports4Kids on-site Monday through<br />
Friday, things quickly change. Our Site<br />
Coordinator integrates the transformative<br />
power of play into the whole day – before,<br />
during and after school. These “playground<br />
heroes” teach kids tools such as rock-paperscissors<br />
to resolve conflicts and keep games<br />
going. After a few weeks of daily encouragement<br />
and game instruction we see significant<br />
changes in the children. Those who previously<br />
stood on the sidelines have been infected by<br />
contagious enthusiasm.<br />
Children quickly become physically active<br />
in an organized and safe way. They become<br />
noticeably confident as they take on leadership<br />
roles and learn problem-solving, selfdiscipline<br />
and respect for themselves and<br />
others.<br />
As a result the playground becomes positive<br />
and energetic. And kids aren’t the only ones<br />
who feel it.<br />
PLAY IS TRANSFORMING<br />
CLASSROOMS<br />
Ask any teacher at a Sports4Kids school<br />
about the change on the playground, and<br />
they will enthusiastically describe the transformation<br />
within the learning environment.<br />
With the involvement of Sports4Kids, the<br />
post-recess classroom is filled with children<br />
who are responding to being active in many<br />
positive ways. Detentions and disruptive<br />
behaviors are reduced, and students return to<br />
the classroom ready to learn. Children once<br />
agitated by conflict and tension from lack of<br />
physical activity are relaxed and focused.<br />
Teachers and principals report improvement<br />
in students’ ability to concentrate and overall<br />
improvement in behavior with others<br />
during class-time. More than half the teachers<br />
we surveyed believe Sports4Kids actually<br />
increases school attendance.<br />
Scientific research backs up our experience,<br />
linking increases in physical activity<br />
to improved focus and attention in the classroom,<br />
providing additional evidence for the<br />
value of organized play. As a result, the health<br />
and educational communities are coming<br />
together to call for increased attention to<br />
children’s need for play.<br />
Sports4Kids offers a vibrant and living<br />
example of what a difference play can make<br />
in schools.<br />
88% of schools request that<br />
Sports4Kids return each year.<br />
94% of principals say that since<br />
Sports4Kids came to their school,<br />
students are more physically active.
PLAY IS TRANSFORMING<br />
COMMUNITIES<br />
Children who learn to play with<br />
Sports4Kids take that lesson home<br />
with them. They come to understand<br />
that play and sports are about a lot<br />
more than winning and losing. They<br />
learn that cooperating with friends in<br />
order to play is satisfying and fun.<br />
Teamwork, healthy competition, and<br />
the joy of mastering new skills all contribute<br />
to an increased sense of pride<br />
and accomplishment, improving their<br />
lives beyond the boundaries of their<br />
school.<br />
While Sports4Kids’ mission is to<br />
directly impact children, we hear<br />
often from adults about the difference<br />
Sports4Kids has made in their own<br />
lives. From the Mom who didn’t know<br />
her daughter could dribble a basketball<br />
to the teacher who has learned to<br />
engage her students in positive play,<br />
Sports4Kids is inspiring adults as well<br />
as children.<br />
On any given weekday evening,<br />
hundreds of students and their parents<br />
fill gymnasiums to participate in<br />
Sports4Kids interscholastic leagues –<br />
proving that given the opportunity<br />
play can inspire communities beyond<br />
school walls.<br />
Brenda Tuohy<br />
Teacher<br />
Think College Now<br />
Oakland, CA<br />
I have never seen a school with<br />
such active children. Sports4Kids<br />
makes sports and physical activity<br />
accessible and enjoyable for all<br />
students, and that’s such a lasting<br />
gift for them.
8<br />
A Coach Inspired<br />
by David Gilmore<br />
THE WING MAN<br />
When I imagined myself as a basketball<br />
coach, I always assumed I’d be<br />
dishing out nuggets of world-weary<br />
wisdom, wearing a blazer, being<br />
hoisted up by my players, and graciously<br />
shaking hands with the other<br />
coach as I confidently strode off the<br />
court (which, of course would be<br />
named after me).<br />
This all changed the minute I<br />
actually became a basketball coach,<br />
just one of my responsibilities as a<br />
Sports4Kids’ Site Coordinator in<br />
Baltimore, Maryland.<br />
My squad was supposed to be made<br />
up of twelve Brehms Lane Beavers<br />
pulled from the ranks of the fourth<br />
and fifth grade girls. I had no idea<br />
what I was working with. I hadn’t<br />
seen a single kid at the school shoot<br />
a basketball, and they, as most<br />
pre-adolescent girls are, were more<br />
concerned with gossip and glitter<br />
than my ill-conceived plans of<br />
running Syracuse’s 2-3 Pressure zone.<br />
Still, I managed to get thirteen girls<br />
to sign on the dotted line.<br />
FULL COURT PRESS<br />
So we met for our first practice. They<br />
were green, oh yes, but they were<br />
enthusiastic. And they loved to<br />
bounce the ball. Loved it. Bounce<br />
the ball when Coach David is talking,<br />
bounce the ball when we’re<br />
walking through the halls, bounce<br />
the ball when Coach David wants it<br />
put away, bounce the ball when we’re<br />
waiting to be picked up, bounce the<br />
ball in the car, bounce the ball on<br />
the bench.<br />
There was only one problem: I had<br />
nowhere for them to bounce the ball.<br />
Our practice area consisted of a 12 X<br />
20 patch of concrete on the outdoor<br />
playground that rested in front of a<br />
set of monkey bars, serving as a<br />
makeshift goal. We might as well<br />
have been throwing the ball up in<br />
the air and saying “well, I think that<br />
would’ve gone in.” My troops’ spirit<br />
was not broken though, despite the<br />
icy winds of a Baltimore February.<br />
When the elements became too<br />
unbearable, we had to go inside.<br />
With the gym occupied, my creative<br />
improvisation as a Sports4Kids coach<br />
(a vital asset to the job, if you ask<br />
me) was put to the test. Before long,<br />
we were dribbling an obstacle course<br />
through the halls of the (mostly)<br />
vacant school, passing through hula<br />
hoops, defensively sliding between<br />
rows of lockers and having our team<br />
meetings in the teachers’ cafeteria<br />
(shhh). Mr. Eckles, who wasn’t even<br />
a teacher of any of the girls, joined<br />
us, lending a similar passion for the<br />
game to the mix. By the time our first<br />
game rolled around, Mrs. Perzinski,<br />
several of the girls’ fourth grade<br />
teacher, offered to drive. Perhaps, I<br />
thought, this will actually happen.<br />
I was worried about so many<br />
things. I worried that we wouldn’t<br />
have enough players, that the girls<br />
wouldn’t have a ride to the game,<br />
that I would forget to put someone in<br />
the game, that the other team would<br />
rout us (despite the fact that no score<br />
was kept), that Brehms Lane would<br />
decide it wasn’t safe to travel, that<br />
one of my girls would bite the referee<br />
if he made an unfair call, etc.
THE REBOUND<br />
I breathed these worries out en masse<br />
the first time my girls cheered for<br />
their teammates during the opening<br />
introductions. I did it again when<br />
they politely made a circle with the<br />
other team and went over the rules. I<br />
exhaled yet again when we completed<br />
our first bounce pass. Once again<br />
when Destiny made our first basket.<br />
Again, and again, when Sherica<br />
made our second and third, and was<br />
patted on the back and cheered on<br />
by every member of our team, despite<br />
the fact the other team was trying to<br />
bring the ball back up the court at<br />
the time. I think I shed a tear the<br />
first time we got back on defense and<br />
positioned ourselves in a perfect 2-3,<br />
all five players in defensive stances.<br />
They were addicted to being on<br />
the court. The same girls who had<br />
asked me not to go in were now begging<br />
to start. They were in a frenzy<br />
the entire time they were out there,<br />
shuffling their sneakers, keeping their<br />
arms up on defense, and dribbling<br />
with confidence. They finally had<br />
somewhere to bounce the ball.<br />
THE TROPHY<br />
I’m a man who keeps very few valuables.<br />
However, the picture of me<br />
and my Brehms Lane Beavers is<br />
something I will never, ever lose. It’s<br />
almost comical, when you really look<br />
at it. Here are the thirteen girls in<br />
maroon shirts, none of them five feet<br />
tall, hamming it up for the camera,<br />
smiling ear to ear. And behind them<br />
is this large, pale man with a scruffy<br />
red beard, shaggy hair, a t-shirt and<br />
jeans. He’s smiling ear to ear too,<br />
because his kids shook hands with<br />
the other team, played their hardest,<br />
and had fun that night. He’s not<br />
wearing a blazer, and he definitely<br />
didn’t get hoisted anywhere. He’s just<br />
happy to be there. That experience is<br />
something I will always treasure.<br />
Jaycelle Pequette<br />
Site Coordinator<br />
Le Conte Elementary<br />
Berkeley, CA<br />
This is a job where every day the<br />
energy you put in comes back to<br />
you in an immediate way.
Sports4Kids is<br />
bringing play back.<br />
10<br />
WINNING THE GAME<br />
Sports4Kids started with two schools in<br />
1996. Ten years later, during the 2005-06<br />
school year, Sports4Kids served 81 schools<br />
in the greater San Francisco Bay Area and<br />
Baltimore, Maryland.<br />
The success of the Sports4Kids program<br />
is due in part to an ongoing and thoughtful<br />
refinement of the teaching model over the<br />
last decade. The unique hands-on program<br />
has grown in both scope and scale to include<br />
five standard program components delivered<br />
during and after school. These components<br />
are facilitated by a Site Coordinator who<br />
works full days, Monday through Friday.<br />
RECESS<br />
During recess each Site Coordinator organizes<br />
the physical space of the playground to<br />
accommodate a safe and appropriate number<br />
of games. They teach rules to dozens of games<br />
over the course of the year and facilitate<br />
conflict resolution to encourage children to<br />
play on their own.<br />
CLASS GAME TIME<br />
Teachers and their students spend an hour<br />
with their Site Coordinator on a weekly or<br />
bi-weekly basis working through a carefullycrafted<br />
curriculum. The components of the<br />
curriculum include games, basic skill-building<br />
activities, and opportunities for cooperative<br />
play.<br />
JUNIOR COACH PROGRAM<br />
The Junior Coach program encourages older<br />
children to develop leadership skills by<br />
coaching other children. They receive specialized<br />
training on resolving conflicts and<br />
initiating games from their Site Coordinator.<br />
AFTER SCHOOL PROGRAM<br />
Four days a week, Sports4Kids offers a structured<br />
program in the after school hours that<br />
includes homework support, healthy snacks,<br />
and organized games.<br />
INTERSCHOLASTIC LEAGUES<br />
Girls and boys form teams to play sports like<br />
basketball, volleyball, and flag football in<br />
healthy competition with children from other<br />
schools. Parents and school staff attend games<br />
that emphasize having fun and building skills.<br />
87% of principals at first year Sports4Kids<br />
schools report that the number of fights on the<br />
playground decreased from the prior year.
Sports4Kids 2006 sources and uses of funds<br />
THE GOAL OF THE GAMES<br />
Sports4Kids relies on a diversified funding<br />
model for sustainability. Schools pay 43%<br />
of the cost of the program which ensures a<br />
stable base of funding for growth. The other<br />
57% is a mix of private foundation, government,<br />
corporate and individual support.<br />
Our vision is big, and our success continues<br />
to propel us forward toward ambitious goals<br />
of reaching more children and schools.<br />
2006 SOURCES OF FUNDS<br />
43%<br />
Revenue from schools<br />
77% of students<br />
served are eligible for<br />
free or reduced-price<br />
lunch, a proxy for<br />
low-income status.<br />
11<br />
1%<br />
Other revenue and support<br />
30%<br />
Foundation grants 9%<br />
Contributions<br />
17%<br />
Government grants<br />
Total sources of funds: $4,190,500<br />
2006 USES OF FUNDS<br />
82%<br />
Program<br />
3%<br />
Fundraising<br />
15%<br />
General and<br />
administrative<br />
Our program costs<br />
just $127 to serve<br />
one child for a full<br />
school year.<br />
Total uses of funds: $4,128,700
12<br />
our strength<br />
is our service.<br />
THE PLAYERS<br />
The single most important factor in<br />
Sports4Kids’ success is our people.<br />
Our Site Coordinators take their responsibilities<br />
very seriously. They understand the<br />
critical link between play and children’s<br />
health and well-being. Every day they come<br />
to their schools ready to lead games with<br />
enthusiasm and a keen sense of what really<br />
makes a playground engaging and fun.<br />
Every Site Coordinator completes intensive<br />
training prior to the first day of the<br />
school year and continues with bi-weekly<br />
professional development. This training<br />
includes not only the “what” and “how” of<br />
delivering the Sports4Kids program, but<br />
also in-depth discussions of the principles<br />
of successful youth development programs.<br />
They practice by addressing issues of race,<br />
class, and gender with children. They are<br />
constantly attentive to building positive<br />
relationships with each child at their schools.<br />
Many of our first year Site Coordinators<br />
are AmeriCorps members providing a year<br />
of service supported by the Corporation for<br />
National Service. For these Site Coordinators,<br />
a year with Sports4Kids embodies the values<br />
of service. They work directly with children<br />
to improve their lives, contributing to the<br />
life of the school communities where they<br />
serve, and learning about the democratic<br />
values and processes of our country.<br />
Most importantly, our staff cares about<br />
kids. They believe that every child deserves<br />
the chance to play every day, regardless of<br />
the neighborhood they live in or the resources<br />
each school can provide.<br />
Ms. Simon<br />
Teacher<br />
Verde Elementary<br />
Richmond, CA<br />
Many students try harder in<br />
the classroom because the<br />
Sports4Kids coach has high<br />
expectations for them. I think<br />
the coach and the program<br />
have a tremendous positive<br />
impact on our school.
Sports4Kids individual donors 2005-06 *<br />
Linda Adinolfi<br />
Mike Allison<br />
Gretchen Anderson<br />
Tim Anderson<br />
Anonymous<br />
Art's Automotive<br />
Nancy Bailey<br />
Karen & Jeff Banks<br />
S. Leigh Barton<br />
Henry & Sue Bass<br />
Annette Clear &<br />
Michael Beggert<br />
Joanna Berg<br />
Lucy Bernholz<br />
Rosemary Bero<br />
Frank Beville<br />
Steven & Emily Birenbaum<br />
Jose Blackorby<br />
Rebecca Pratt Bleich<br />
Walter Blount Jr<br />
Karen Boezi<br />
Roxanne Borcich<br />
Chris Bordeeaux<br />
Patricia Bresee<br />
Christine Broderick<br />
Jennifer Brokaw<br />
Todd Schafer & Molly<br />
Brostrom<br />
Alice B. Brown<br />
Amanda Brown-Stevens<br />
Helene & David Buchen<br />
Robert, Carol, & Janet Burdick<br />
Karen Butterfield<br />
Marie Cabot<br />
Wendy Caporicci<br />
Aline Carroll<br />
Catherine Cartier<br />
John & Agnes Caulfield<br />
Felix Chan<br />
Che Garcia & Allyson Cimini<br />
Liz Clark<br />
Tom & Elizabeth Clark<br />
John Clauss<br />
David Clayton<br />
Kim Cobb<br />
Roger & Marilee Cole<br />
Shanna Connor<br />
Jennifer Crawford<br />
Hilary Crosby<br />
Nestor& Julie Cuellas<br />
Doug Cushing<br />
Laura & Sean Cushing<br />
Tim Cushing<br />
Tom & Jane David<br />
Beverly Gregg & Philip Davis<br />
Everette Donlon<br />
The Dosa Family<br />
Cecilia Echeverria<br />
Susan Ehrlich<br />
Tony & Deborah Eistetter<br />
Les Ekman<br />
Jillian Ellis<br />
Richard Engles<br />
Dianne Leiker &<br />
Howard Ervin<br />
Jennifer Flanigan &<br />
Leah Waarvik<br />
Bianca Dibartolo &<br />
Glenn Forrester<br />
Angela Franzero<br />
Theodore & Harriet Fredman<br />
Steve & Marion Fredman<br />
Thomas & Sandra Friedland<br />
Stan & Mary Friedman<br />
Kathleen Gadway<br />
Nicole Gallagher<br />
William & Susan Garratt<br />
Jason Gerlach<br />
Pamela Molsick &<br />
Helen Gibson<br />
Jennifer Gilbert<br />
Linda Gilbert<br />
Sidney Glass<br />
Michele & David Glass<br />
Linda Chung & Mark Golan<br />
Marilyn & Amos Goldhaber<br />
Robert Gonzalez<br />
David & Ann Goodwin<br />
Kim Green<br />
Jane Hammond<br />
Maureen Hanawalt<br />
Meghan Hanawalt<br />
Robert Whitehill &<br />
Ingrid Happoldt<br />
Louise & Terry Hartsock<br />
Nancy Blair Harvey<br />
Tim & Robin Hassler<br />
William Hester<br />
Stefan Highsmith<br />
Aurora Hill<br />
Jeffrey Hill<br />
Sonja Hoel<br />
Todd Hoffman<br />
Frances and Rick Holsinger<br />
Revell Horsey<br />
Stuart & Colleen Hoskins<br />
Abby Irwin<br />
Henry Izumizaki<br />
Gloria Jenkins<br />
Marion Jetson<br />
Altonette Jones<br />
Fonda Jones<br />
Sheila Jordan<br />
Sam Karp<br />
Karen & Gavin Keith<br />
John Keller<br />
John & Elizabeth Kilgallon<br />
Lisa & Richard Kirkby<br />
Harvey & Abbey Kletz<br />
Jess Kletz<br />
Kyle Kosup<br />
Nancy Griffin &<br />
Bryce Kranzthor<br />
Karen A. Kuhlthau<br />
E. A. LaBelle<br />
Peter & Sabrina Landreth<br />
Jalyn & Lance Lang<br />
Margaret Laws<br />
Edward & Margaret Laws<br />
Tom Lee<br />
Joshua Lenhert<br />
Edgar Lew<br />
Suzan Liao<br />
Wm. Thomas Lockard, Trustee<br />
David Long<br />
Melissa Lucas<br />
Diane Lundquist<br />
Jennifer Anne Lutz<br />
Ted & LeeAnn Lyman<br />
Joel Magpantay<br />
Wendy Wutman & Jeff Mandel<br />
Helen Marcus<br />
Michael Darby & Toni Martin<br />
Diane Martin<br />
Luis Martinez<br />
Larry Masket<br />
Juliana Mayer<br />
Morgan Mayfield<br />
Tom McGowan<br />
R.B. Mendelson<br />
Dale & Alison Miller<br />
Jadine Mitchell<br />
Jane Mitchell<br />
Dean Moriyama<br />
Bentley Moyer<br />
Stacey Murphy<br />
John & Barbara Nikcevich<br />
Mark North<br />
Chris Ohman<br />
Frank Stumpf &<br />
Deborah Owen<br />
Thomas Pak<br />
Frank Panacci<br />
Ana Maria Park<br />
Margaret Partlow<br />
Yogesh & Yana Patel<br />
Leon Pete<br />
Henry Miller &<br />
Connie Philipp<br />
Hollis Phillips<br />
David & Naomi Pockell<br />
Claudia Polsky<br />
Marie Poole<br />
Greg & Susan Raifman<br />
Colleen Reilly<br />
Steven Reinhardt<br />
Fred Robanser<br />
Toni Adams & James Robinson<br />
Kenneth Rogers<br />
Nancy Rupprect<br />
Ronald Sattui<br />
Lisa Parks & Ted Scherman<br />
Tom Seawell<br />
Mark Seiler<br />
Steve & Debby Senter<br />
Stacey Shaw<br />
Merritt Sher<br />
Hiram Simon<br />
Terry Smalley<br />
Mark D. Smith<br />
Rose Spencer<br />
Kathleen Stafford<br />
Eric Stockel<br />
Carol Studier<br />
Susan & William Studier<br />
Claire Suguro<br />
Andrea Sullivan<br />
Lauren & Eric Tao<br />
Wendell & Deborah Taylor<br />
William Tennant &<br />
Gail Houghton Tennant<br />
Chris Thompson<br />
James Thompson<br />
Howard & Barbara Traylor<br />
Frances Holsinger<br />
Okoro Umozurike<br />
Harold VanWart<br />
Clara Villatoro<br />
Jeremy Wagner<br />
Warren D. Walton<br />
David Jones & Vicki Weeks<br />
Joy Weiss<br />
Howard L. White<br />
Lona Tracee Whitley<br />
Jim & Katie Whitty<br />
Clare Willis<br />
Alba Witkin<br />
Merry Wood<br />
Rebecca Worley<br />
Gordon Wright<br />
*Individual contributions of $100 or more. We apologize if we have<br />
inadvertently omitted your name. If that is the case, please contact us<br />
so we can correct our records.<br />
Sports4Kids is a 4-star charity according to<br />
Charity Navigator, representing the highest possible<br />
rating of financial health.<br />
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moving the ball<br />
forward.<br />
SPORTS4KIDS –<br />
EXPANDING ITS REACH<br />
This year Sports4Kids expanded outside<br />
of the San Francisco Bay Area for the first<br />
time. In response to repeated requests<br />
from educators and community leaders in<br />
Baltimore, we opened six new schools in<br />
the fall of 2005. To date, our experience in<br />
Baltimore has been fantastic – children<br />
have responded enthusiastically to our<br />
unique brand of play while the grown-ups<br />
who care about them – principals, teachers,<br />
and families – report visible signs of<br />
improvement.<br />
In November 2005, the Robert Wood<br />
Johnson Foundation (RWJF) made a<br />
significant investment in Sports4Kids.<br />
This $4.4 million grant over three years is<br />
dedicated specifically to national expansion,<br />
support of programs in three new cities<br />
as well as Baltimore, and the staffing of a<br />
national office in Oakland, California.<br />
The partnership with RWJF marks a new<br />
period of growth for our organization and<br />
the first step toward realizing our vision of<br />
bringing safe, meaningful play to thousands<br />
of more children nationwide.<br />
As a result, Sports4Kids is opening new<br />
offices in Boston and Washington D.C.<br />
for the 2006-07 school year, with plans to<br />
introduce our program in the Southeast in<br />
2007-08. We are also expanding our reach<br />
in California, with new schools in San Jose<br />
and Redwood City, with potential for further<br />
growth beyond the San Francisco Bay Area<br />
to other parts of the state.<br />
Number of<br />
students served<br />
STUDENTS SERVED BY YEAR<br />
30,000<br />
15,000<br />
Y<br />
Number of scho<br />
1 1 1 2 2 2 2 2 2 2006<br />
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Sports4Kids institutional supporters 2005-06<br />
AEGON/Transamerica<br />
Foundation<br />
AmeriCorps<br />
Ashoka<br />
Barstow Family Fund<br />
Bay Area Sports Hall of Fame<br />
Berkeley Community Fund<br />
Chapman & Associates<br />
Dornbusch Philanthropic Fund<br />
Electronic Arts Foundation<br />
Evelyn & Walter Haas, Jr. Fund<br />
Fenwick Foundation<br />
James Irvine Foundation<br />
Lowell Berry Foundation<br />
Mendelson Family Fund<br />
Morris Stulsaft Foundation<br />
Morrison Foerster Foundation<br />
Oakland Fund for Children<br />
& Youth<br />
Olympic Club Foundation<br />
Open Society Institute (OSI)<br />
Philanthropic Ventures<br />
Foundation<br />
Poncelet Family Fund<br />
Reach-A-Star Foundation<br />
Robert Wood Johnson<br />
Foundation<br />
San Francisco Foundation<br />
SH Cowell Foundation<br />
Team Up For Youth<br />
US Department of Agriculture<br />
Wayne & Gladys Valley<br />
Foundation<br />
Western Athletic Clubs<br />
Women’s Sports Foundation<br />
Y & H Soda Foundation<br />
Yahoo! Employee Foundation<br />
Zach Fund<br />
Sports4Kids board of directors 2005-06<br />
Margaret Laws, Board Chair<br />
Director of Public Financing<br />
& Policy, California<br />
HealthCare Foundation<br />
Toni Adams, Assistant<br />
to the Superintendent,<br />
Alameda County Office<br />
of Education<br />
Steve Fredman, Physician<br />
Kaiser Permanente<br />
David Long, Board Treasurer<br />
Director of Business<br />
Development, Laureate<br />
Education, Inc.<br />
Julie Mayer, Director of<br />
Internet Services<br />
Robert Half International<br />
Roger Mendelson, Psychiatrist<br />
Mark Seiler, Metrovation<br />
Mark Smith, Board Secretary<br />
General Counsel, Structure<br />
Consulting Group, LLC<br />
Carol Studier, Senior<br />
Research Associate<br />
EdSource<br />
Sports4Kids is a 501c3 nonprofit<br />
organization. All donations are<br />
tax-deductible.<br />
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Darlene Hall<br />
Program Officer<br />
Evelyn and Walter<br />
Haas Jr. Fund<br />
I don’t think there is any organization<br />
that has the breadth and scope that<br />
Sports4Kids has; it reaches thousands<br />
of kids every day. It has the respect<br />
of the schools, and it has been around<br />
longer than most… it’s not going away.
2005-06 SCHOOL LIST BY CITY<br />
Alameda, CA<br />
Henry Haight<br />
Washington<br />
Woodstock<br />
Baltimore, MD<br />
Belmont<br />
Brehms Lane<br />
Holabird<br />
KIPP Ujima<br />
Medfield Heights<br />
Martin Luther King, Jr<br />
Berkeley, CA<br />
Emerson<br />
Le Conte<br />
Rosa Parks<br />
Thousand Oaks<br />
Washington<br />
El Cerrito, CA<br />
Fairmont<br />
Emeryville, CA<br />
Anna Yates<br />
Oakland, CA<br />
Allendale<br />
Ascend<br />
Bella Vista<br />
Burckhalter<br />
Brookfield<br />
Calvin Simmons<br />
Cox<br />
Dolores Huerta<br />
Edna Brewer<br />
Emerson<br />
Explore<br />
Franklin<br />
Garfield<br />
Hawthorne<br />
Highland<br />
Hoover<br />
Horace Mann<br />
International Community<br />
Jefferson<br />
La Escuelita<br />
Lakeview<br />
Lighthouse Community<br />
Lincoln<br />
Lockwood<br />
Manzanita<br />
Manzanita Seed<br />
Markham<br />
Maxwell Park<br />
Melrose Leadership Academy<br />
Monarch Academy<br />
Oasis<br />
Parker<br />
Peralta<br />
Piedmont Avenue<br />
Rock La Fleche<br />
Stonehurst<br />
Think College Now<br />
Urban Promise Academy<br />
Westlake<br />
Whittier<br />
Woodland<br />
Richmond, CA<br />
Coronado<br />
Downer<br />
Grant<br />
Highland<br />
Peres<br />
Stege<br />
Verde<br />
San Pablo, CA<br />
Lake<br />
San Francisco, CA<br />
Aim High<br />
Bret Harte<br />
Buena Vista<br />
Cobb<br />
ER Taylor<br />
Fairmount<br />
Hillcrest<br />
Malcolm X<br />
Mira Loma<br />
Monroe<br />
Sherman<br />
Tenderloin<br />
Vallejo, CA<br />
Widenmann<br />
Other, CA<br />
Seneca Center (Fremont)<br />
Seneca Center (San Leandro)<br />
This annual report was<br />
created with the support of<br />
the Taproot Foundation.<br />
Photography<br />
Brandon Joseph Baker<br />
(except pages 2 and 8)<br />
Graphic Design<br />
Harper Design Group<br />
Copyediting<br />
Heather Wischmann<br />
Marketing Manager<br />
Nancy Battey<br />
Strategy Analyst<br />
Jonathan Patton<br />
Account Director<br />
Carol Monda<br />
Sports4Kids is grateful for<br />
support from the Robert Wood<br />
Johnson Foundation.<br />
517 Fourth Street • Oakland, CA 94607 • 510 893 4180 • 510 893 4378 (fax) • www.sports4kids.org