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Crossing the
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Dreams For Kids receives its first grant from the leading athletic retailer: Finish Line. Finish Line's Youth Foundation focuses on supporting nonprofits that provide community based access to athletics, especially those that provide services to kids who are disadvantaged or disabled; thus, making DFK a perfect fit for support.
Finish Line's Youth Foundation will be supporting upcoming Extreme Recess events to empower Dreams For Kids disabled youth athletic program.
Dreams For Kids is grateful for their support to help continue changing lives of children living with disabilities.
You can learn more about Finish Line's Youth Foundation on their website.
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| Extreme Recess participant throws the First Pitch for the Nats vs. Braves game! |
We are excited to announce that Dreams For Kids is one of the first nonprofits to partner with First Pitch!
Adrian, one of Dreams For Kids' extraordinary Extreme Recess Participants, threw the first pitch at the Nationals vs. Braves game on Monday, August 1st!
Adrian's parents, Linda & Mike, wrote us telling how the chance to throw the first pitch was "a dream come true for a ten year old boy - who really loves the game!" As Linda wrote "As parents we are all proud of our kids accomplishments... I am not sure that I have ever seen him happier".
Thanks to the Nationals and First Pitch for making this possible!
DFK and World T.E.A.M Sports partnered last week to bring together teens (13-18 years old) with disabilities to participate in an Adventure Teen Challenge! 2011 Adventure Teen Challenge took place
Teens spent 2 full days together exploring the outdoors through various activities including: map reading, First Aid, bike & water safety, canoeing, mountain biking, and hiking.
At the end of the camp teens participate in groups, 12 teams total, in sports challenges. The challenges include navigating and orienteering courses, riding mountain bikes, and finish with a canoe race!
Teens are encouraged to work together to successfully complete each outdoor sporting challenge. Through competition & teamwork, disabled participants build confidence and serve as a role model for others, while inspiring volunteers and other competitors.
The Photo below shows Jerry, an Adventure Camp participant, hiking!
Jerry Carroll Jr., one of our amazing participants, who has been actively engaged in our Extreme Recess events for the past four months, battled the elements to complete a 3/4 mile hike, 6 mile bike ride and another 3/4 mile canoe ride! It was a magical moment as Jerry ascended from the Carderock trail to greet his parents and ABC News 7 anchor Leon Harris.
August 10th: 
You can see more about about World T.E.A.M Sports Adventure Teen Challenge on their website
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*UPCOMING DATES* | |
Extreme Recess Golf
with The First Tee!
August 27th, 10am-1pm
Extreme Recess Baseball
with The Washington Nationals!
TBD
Extreme Recess Soccer
with DC United!
TBD
Details to come soon.
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Midsummer Night For Dreams | |
Saturday, August 6th, Andrew & Glenda, along with an amazing host committee celebrated the next chapter in Dreams For Kids as Andrew leaves to take over as COO in Chicago and Glenda succeeds him as Executive Director of the DC Office.
The fundraiser brought out around 300 of DFK's closest friends, supporters, and the district's brightest young entrepreneurs. We successfully raised about $6000, which will be used toward sustaining our life changing programs: Extreme Recess and Holiday for Hope.
We want to give a special thank you to VeeV Premium Spirits, JoJos, Firehook Bakery, STROGA, DISTRICT, T. Francis Cupcakes, Roti Mediterranean, Boxer of 98.7 WMZQ and our amazing host committee.
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Ray's First Single! |
Ray got involved with DFK because has Cerebral Palsy and wanted to help others through our Dream Leader program. He has been a Dream Leader Facilitator for DFK in the past.
He recently released is first single "All I Need is Your Love" on iTunes. It is a rock song.
Ray's true passion is music and he is a lyricist/rapper.
He will be donating a portion of the proceeds from his sales on iTunes back to the Dream Leader program.
Please check out his single on iTunes and support Ray's passion and DFK's Dream Leader program!
Find it here:
"All I Need Is Your Love"
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Thank you to our
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We want to shout out a BIG Thank You to all of our Sponsors! Because of their generous support we are able to keep our events free of charge to the kids. We have support from some of the greatest organizations in the DC area, and we couldn't be more thrilled to work with all of them!
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