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Our Mission:
Kensington Soccer Club - Community Advancement Through Soccer is dedicated to uniting and advancing the broader Kensington community with high quality soccer and youth development programs for everyone, regardless of ability to pay.
The Need:
- Kensington has one of the highest rates of poverty and lowest rates of educational attainment in the country. According to census figures for adults in our community age 25 or older, only 51.7% have high school diplomas or GEDs and only 5.8% have bachelor's degrees. In the 19133 zip code where most of our KSC children live, only 2.6% of adults over 25 have bachelor's degrees.
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Since we launched our Teen Leadership Initiative in 2012, we have trained dozens of our teens as leaders, coaches, and mentors for our younger children. Every single one of our Teen Leaders has graduated high school while having a tremendous positive impact on our younger children. Now many of those teens are in college and struggling to make ends meet while staying on the path to graduation. Most of them will be the first in their families to graduate and they need our support to graduate college reach their full potential.
- At the same time, we have thousands of children in our community in desperate need of coach/mentors; thousands of children who need role models from their own community to show them that they too can attend college and become community leaders.
The Solution:
- We will hire our home-grown college students as coach/mentors for our younger children who need them. They are our community heroes who blaze a trail to success while reaching back and lifting up our younger generations.
- We will match these coach/mentor college students with one of our many KSC programs that fits their schedule so they can reach our younger children while staying on track to graduate. For those who are away at college, we'll hire them during their time back home between semesters.
- We will incorporate these college leaders into our training and support of our Teen Leaders and our Soccer Athletes Value Education (SAVE) programs to help keep our teens on the track to be the next to pick up the college leader mantle.
The Matching Challenge:
We need to raise $20,000 in order to hire eight of our college students and reach 1000 children with our community soccer programs. Our Founder and President, Jim Hardy, will match any donation until we reach our goal of $20,000, so your impact will be doubled!
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