On Giving Tuesday, we want to recognize our donors, community partners and friends.   Each of you have believed in, encouraged, and supported the work of LiFEsports. The impact of your generosity in the lives of the youth we serve is immeasurable.   Our efforts are made possible because of you. Today, we simply want to say-- thank you.

Thanks to your 2017 donation to LiFEsports, we were able to serve over 600 youth in our summer camp!  These youth participated in daily sport activities while also learning valuable social skills.  We couldn't have done it without your donation and support. While our summer program has wrapped up, we are excited to begin planning our 2017-18 calendar for youth which will include 10 sports clinics.  Additionally, we will be kicking off the Youth Leadership Academy in September for 60 high school-aged youth, 30 of which will receive individual college and career mentoring this year thanks to a grant from the Ohio Department of Education.  Thank you again for your donation!

LiFEsports would like to thank all our donors for helping us blow past our Annual Campaign goal of $10,000.  With your gifts, we were able to raise 136% of our goal or $13,555.

These gifts will be used to support the ongoing work of LiFEsports including the LiFEsports Summer Camp which starts in just a little over 6 weeks.  We'd like to invite all our donors to visit camp any time from June 12th - July 7th.   If you'd like to visit camp and see your funds in action, please contact Becky at wade-mdivanian.1@osu.edu pr (614) 247-7237.

Thank you again!

As of this morning, we have officially reached our goal of raising $10,000 for LiFEsports through our annual campaign!  While we've reached our goal, we still have 5 days left in the campaign!  We hope you will join us in continuing to spread the word about the work LiFEsports does in our community and help us blow past our goal in these final 5 days!

If you didn't catch it on social media this weekend, check out our video of Brutus and Sir CC teaming up to support LiFEsports.  Feel free to share the video via social media - the original post can be found on the OSU College of Social Work's Facebook page or the LiFEsports Facebook page!

This past weekend, the Ohio State University's Department of Athletics hosted the LiFEsports Spring Game!  Our youth were lucky enough to not only enjoy a pre-game football clinic and tailgate, but also get the chance to attend the game.  Thanks to donations like yours, over 300 youth and their family members were able to attend these activities.  

With 12 days left in our annual campaign, please continue to share the work of LiFEsports to your family and friends so we can continue to offer these amazing experiences to low-income youth and their families during the 2017-2018 academic year!

We want to say a quick thank you to all of you have donated early in the campaign!  We cannot thank you enough for your generosity.  

While LiFEsports impacts over 1,000 kids each year through our annual summer camp and after school programming, we also strive to impact future youth development professionals.  Each year LiFEsports works with over 300 college students from a variety of majors and career paths.  

We'd like to share with you one such student, Kyle Reiser.  Kyle, a student from the University of Buffalo, worked last year as a social work field placement student and then joined us on staff as a camp counselor over the summer.  Listen to Kyle share the impact LiFEsports had on him as well as why he continues to give to LiFEsports today!