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All Sports' participants help their community and earn a higher education.
Over 100 hundred high school and 100 college students are served annually through All Sports programs. Each participant is asked to volunteer a minimum of 25 hours of community service per semester. These students learn valuable skills, have fun, and make a difference in their community, all while planting the seed for their own future success.
The following are just a few of the many charitable organizations that benefit from the All Sports' volunteer programs. Many All Sports' student volunteers earn college financial assistance with a community service scholarship. In addition to earning a college education, these students gain self-esteem, pride and sense of accomplishment that will stay with them for a lifetime.
The All Sports mentoring program is based on a two-tier model. The program focuses on the overall personal and academic development of at-risk high school students. Most of these students are the first in their family to go to college. Because of this, they need assistance every step of the way, from school selection and enrollment to overcoming the obstacles each new year can present. For many students, this is the only opportunity they will have to prepare for productive professional careers and cross the barriers beyond their present economic status.
Volunteer Partnerships
Joshua House
Joshua House is foster home for neglected and/or abused children in the Tampa area. All Sports makes regular visits to Joshua House providing such services as monthly birthday parties, story-time for the younger children, and other things like outside recreation and educational assistance.
YMCA
All Sports supports many of the local YMCAs by volunteering to work with the children in after-school programs and sporting activities. Many of All Sports' future candidates are first introduced to the program at their YMCA.
Leslie Peters House
Leslie Peters House is a juvenile detention center for ages 14 through 18. Participants of All Sports tutor and act as role models to the home's youth.
Special Olympics
Metropolitan Ministries
All Sports' volunteers donate their time and services during the busy holiday season serving food to the homeless.
"I see now that grand gestures are not always necessary, and, more often than not, simple acts can be as impactful and substantive as grander gestures as it matters to people who are truly in need."
- Marshall E. Hopkins
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