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The Recipients | Additional Examples
The following exemplify some of the organizations whose care and dedication we support:
Boys & Girls Club and YMCA at the Alfond Youth Center—Waterville, ME
The mission of the Alfond Youth Center is to inspire and enable all young people and their families, especially those from disadvantaged circumstances, to realize their full potential as productive, responsible and caring citizens. The Waterville facility reaches out to neighboring communities in Maine, including Skowhegan and Norway. For the past three years the Foundation has supported several fitness and healthy lifestyle programs. More recently, the New Balance Foundation made a multi-year commitment to the Center in support of its development of Camp Tracy as a year-round campus and its advancement of after-school programming and meal services.
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Special Olympics—Boston, MA
The mission of Special Olympics Massachusetts (SOMA) is to provide year-round sports training and athletic competition in a variety of well-coached Olympic-type sports for individuals with intellectual disabilities. This is accomplished by providing the athletes with continuing opportunities to develop physical fitness, prepare for entry into school and community programs, express courage, experience joy, and participate in the sharing of gifts, skills, and friendship with their families, other Special Olympic Athletes, and the community.
This past June, over 40 New Balance associates and their family members volunteered at the 2008 Summer Games by helping to time and score various track events, escorting athletes to their events, and cheering for the athletes.
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Boston Connects—Boston, MA
Boston Connects
is a program that is run by the trustees of Boston College that seeks to create systematic change within the schools and in specific surrounding neighborhoods of the community. The organization does this by addressing individual student and family needs through effective in-school student support and newly developed community-based family supoprt services. Boston College has partnered with the Boston Public elementary schools and the YMCA to reach more than 3,300 children with the Boston Connects program.
The New Balance Foundation made their first contribution to Boston Connects in 2004 in the form of a three year grant. The grant was created inorder to make the following major accomplishment: to fund key positions that will help complete the CONNECTfive infrastructure, which will create three new crucial positions and create a new component in health education throughout the Cluster 5 schools in and around the Allston-Brighton area.
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New England Aquarium—Boston, MA
On June 20, 1969, the New England Aquarium opened its doors to the public for the first time. The Aquarium was designed with the intention of providing a cultural institution that would reconnect Boston to its waterfront. Since 1999, the New Balance Foundation has been a lead donor for “Harbor Discoveries,” a Boston-based inner-city youth program. The Foundation supports scholarships for those who might otherwise be unable to afford such an experience.
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Stephens Memorial Hospital—Norway, ME
The New Balance Foundation provided funds to Stephens Memorial Hospital in Norway, ME, for its Women's Imaging Center, a unique health environment offering a full range of breast care, ultrasound and bone density services. The hospital is a not-for-profit integrated healthcare system committed to providing medical care to all who seek it.
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Rosie's Place—Boston, MA
Rosie's Place has been a sanctuary for poor and homeless women since 1974. Through a variety of programs such as job training and permanent housing, Rosie's ultimate goal is to confront comprehensively the challenges facing poor and homeless women to end poverty for these women and their families. Because of their commitment to providing long term solutions, New Balance is a long time supporter of Rosie's. The New Balance Foundation has a commitment to fund the operation of their soup kitchen for a full month every year for three years. In addition, NB associates regularly volunteer serving lunch in the soup kitchen and donate footwear to the women at Rosie's.
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