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AccesSportAmerica, a national non-profit organization, inspires higher function and fitness for children and adults living with disabilities through high-challenge sports and training.
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Watch Videos about AccesSport:
A Gleam in the Eye
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COMING EVENTS
Auction for AccesSport
Friday, April 5, 2013
Royal Sonesta Hotel Boston, Cambridge
Reply/Sponsorship Form
AccesSportAmerica Mayor's Cup Regatta
Sunday, July 14, 2013 (confirmation pending)
Hawaiian Outrigger Canoe Races on the Charles
Sponsorship Form
EVENTS
Leadership Luncheon
Thursday, November 15, 2012
Millennium Bostonian Hotel
"Marianne Leone is a courageous steward of the legacy and message of her son, Jesse... She brings us into her home, and won't let us go until we are inspired by the love her family shared." - Ross Lilley, Executive Director, AccesSportAmerica
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Patriot's Coach Bill Belichick is donating a portion of each book sold to benefit AccesSportAmerica. From the Boston Globe: "In his book, "The Education of a Coach," [David] Halberstam describes the organization as "an extraordinary group to which the Belichick family is committed, which brings formidable athletic challenges . . . to children and adults with serious physical or developmental disabilities."
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Photos courtesy of C.O.R.S.E., Mariellen Burns and Steven Gardner, MD
Letter from Mark Thirman, Board Chair Emeritus
AccesSportAmerica is an amazing organization that I have been privileged to work with from the beginning. The goal in this blog posting is to provide some historical perspective for new visitors to our site.
I have often likened AccesSportAmerica to a tech company that has emerged from its start-up phase and grew into an established successful operating company. Indeed, many of the attributes of a start-up remain: attention to innovation, attention to lean financial resources, attention to constituents/"customers", and attention to team building/great employees. Unlike the start-up world, our goal is not to sell out or merge or become part of a larger company to enrich the investors and founders. We DO try to enrich the lives of our athletes and their families through innovations in high-challenge athletic activities for people with disabilities.
The Board of Directors under the leadership of Mark Scheier, continues to ensure that funds raised are deployed wisely, new programs are curated properly, and new events build community in addition to helping raise awareness and funds.
It is also important to emphasize to those attending our many events (Annual Auction is coming up--please check our site for details) that the funds raised at these events go directly to the program and our hosts at these events (Millennium Bostonian, Poe's Kitchen at the Rattlesnake, and others) underwrite these events. This echoes a theme seen in the high tech start up world: Capital efficiency. We are efficient with the funds entrusted to us and, like any good start-up, work to stretch them as long as possible to achieve our mission and provide the greatest impact for our athletes possible. We do not engage in telemarketing campaigns, which can sap away most of the contribution dollars in fees. We also do not sell our donor lists, which might provide a few short-term funds, but in the long term, would perhaps alienate donors and partners.
Please attend our fund-raising events (upcoming Auction for AccesSport, Mayor Cup Regatta, etc) and ask any board member any question about governance or efficiency. Or, just attend and bid at our auction or sponsor a boat at the Mayor's Cup. The community we've built is amazing and inclusive. Our athletes and our staff find miracles on a daily basis.
Follow us on Twitter @AccessSport.
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 Affiliated with Disabled Sports USA
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