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NRF Spotlight

S PART OF AN ONGOING SERIES ON THE NATIONAL RECREATION FOUNDATION, Parks & Recreation highlights grant recipients for the foundation's program beneﬁting at-risk youths. This month features programs from
Michigan, Pennsylvania, and Colorado.

Cranbrook Schools
Horizons-Upward Bound
Get Fit-Stay Safe Grant-$30,000
The mission of Horizons-Upward
Bound is to prepare students with limited opportunities from the Detroit metropolitan area to enter and succeed in
post-secondary education. The Get
Fit-Stay Fit program will supplement
the summer's phase of intramural
sports programs, which offer athletic
activities at the end of the school day.
This program will focus on providing
lessons in Tai Chi to 180 students to
help build conﬁdence, character, and
self-esteem in each student, as well as
support the development of positive
conﬂict resolution.

American Trauma Society,
Pennsylvania Division
Dangers of the Unknown
Grant-$30,000
ATSPA is a nonproﬁt trauma prevention education organization dedicated
to the reduction of suffering, disability,
and death due to trauma. Each year,
thousands of young people under 18
suffer from concussions. Funding will
help develop the Dangers of the Unknown, an educational program that
teaches young athletes, coaches, trainers, teachers, parents, and recreation
personnel about the dangerous effects
of concussions on children.

SOS Outreach University
Grant-$30,000
SOS Outreach University is a multiyear program which provides leadership training to 570 at-risk youths at
10 national sites. The program incorporates consistent adult mentorship,
service learning, life skills workshops,
and a core value curriculum while using skiing, snowboarding, or summer
wilderness experiences as the hook to
maintain participant interest. The goal
of SOS outreach programs is to increase
resiliency and protective factors in underserved youth.

THE NATIONAL RECREATION FOUNDATION
THE NATIONAL RECREATION FOUNDATION and NRPA, along with its predecessor organizations, have had a
close working relationship since 1919.
In addition to NRPA, NRF supports
many other not-for-proﬁt organizations
and government agencies throughout
the United States. In 2010-2011, grants
were made to 36 programs for a total
of just under $2 million.
The mission is " to be a life-enhancing force on the youth of the nation by
investing strategically in recreation
with a special focus on programs for
those who are economically, physically, or mentally disadvantaged. "
NRF gives funding priority to organizations working to coordinate efforts among local, state, and national
agencies that address this mission,

as well as to programs focusing on
outcomes leading to signiﬁcant social change. The foundation views
recreation and the leisure services as

a broad and holistic perspective that
assists youth-at-risk by encouraging
healthy lifestyles for all. www.national
recreationfoundation.org.

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