The Olympic Club Foundation
The Olympic Club Foundation
The Foundation's Mission Statement encapsulates what we all believe, "... participation in organized athletics enriches young lives and develops future community leaders." This is an expansion of one of the Club's primary purposes, "...the fostering of amateur athletics..." (Bylaws, Article III) The Foundation is accomplishing this throughout the Greater Bay Area. And in a big way!
We reached our $3,000,000 milestone and presented our 3 millionth dollar grant to a very deserving organization, the City Fields Foundation in 2009.
Your Foundation enriches the lives of over 65,000 young athletes. Some of the grants already approved for this past year include the following:
City Fields: The City Fields Foundation was established in 2006 to address the chronic shortage of playfields in San Francisco and help the city equitably provide sports facilities for youth athletic leagues, school teams and physical education classes, and informal play.
City Fields and the City of San Francisco established the Playfields Initiative, a public-private partnership to remedy the city's ongoing athletic field deficit through field renovations, light installations and reorganization of the Recreation and Park Department's antiquated and inefficient Permits and Reservations system.
Between field renovations and the permit system reorganization, the Playfields Initiative has added more than 62,000 hours of annual play time to Recreation and Parks athletic system thus far. The Olympic Club Foundation is proud to support this effort to make sure that the children of San Francisco always have a place to play!
Good Tidings Foundation: Renovation of the Bobby Bonds Baseball and Athletic Field at the John F. Kennedy Elementary School in Daly City; the field is used by Little League, Junior Giants and Park and Recreation leagues.
Mills College Community Tennis Program: After-school tennis instruction for 100 third through fifth grade children from two inner city elementary schools in Oakland, E. Morris Cox Elementary School and Lockwood Elementary School, which serve predominantly poor, disadvantaged children of color.
Salesian Boys and Girls Club: Funds will support 35-50 teams in soccer, basketball, baseball, and volley ball, principally for third through eighth grade students.
Every Child Can Learn Foundation: Renovation of Burton High School softball field. Our Foundation's grant helped leverage $700,000 in contributions from other sources, which will be used to improve the school's other athletic facilities.
These are some of the many programs funded by your Foundation this year. All the 2008 Foundation grants will be posted on the Club web site in the near future. The number of Olympians who have monetarily contributed to this great success has risen from 2% participation in 2002 to 8% in 2009 – our goal for 2010 in 10% participation from members of The Olympic Club.
The entire Club should take great pride in our Foundation's year. In fact, a job well done!
For more information about the Olympic Club Foundation, call the Foundation at 415.345.5230.
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