Introduction: My name is Abby Darnley, and this is Denys Pavlov. We are both seniors at Buffalo High School. Today we will be informing you on the Good Sports charity. First, I will be giving you am overview of the charity we chose, then I will be informing you on the event we will plan. Next, Denys will be describing to you what The Good Sports organization will be doing with the money we raise. He will also be describing the cupcakes me made. Explanation: First off, I will be telling you about The Good Sports Charity. The Good Sports Charity helps kids in high-need communities get the opportunity to participate in sports. The Good Sports Charity has been successfully helping kids in need for 18 years. They have been running since 2003, and throughout these 18 years they have donated over $81 million in sports gear to kids in need. And now with these donations, over 8.8 million kids have had the opportunity to play and participate in sports. The Good Sports Program helps kids from ages 3-18 years old. Their goal is to 1) increase the total amount of youth sports participants 2) enhance the experience for all youths involved and 3) create new opportunities in physical activity for the kids they serve. Our Event: Me and Denys decided that we wanted to host a 10K at Central Park. People can enter this race and either run, walk, or bike. We have decided that the participants can either run, walk, or bike so there is a possibility for more competitors. Because people are either running or biking, there will be two winners, one for biking and one for running. The two winners will get a medal and a t-shirt. Central Park is the perfect place to hold this event because a permit to hold activities at Central Park is only $25 as long as we follow the rules and regulations. Central Park is also centered in one of the largest cities in the United States, leading to more people attending the race. To ensure that people know and attend our event, we will announce our event through social media and fliers. Good Sports is partnered with many famous athletes who could show support or possibly attend our race. We can also contact the Good Sports Marketing team who can post the event on their website. With all of this, we expect at least 1000 participants in our race. Like I said before, the cost of a permit for Central Park is $25 and we estimated that all the materials, food, water and set up will cost between $2000 - $3000. To help lessen the cost of the race, we will provide community service to students in the community who help with the race. We will be charging a $25 entrance fee to participate in the race. If 1000 people attend our event, then we can provide Good Sports will at least $25,000. I have also provided you with some pictures of Central Park to show where the attendees will be racing. As you can see, Central Park is a very unique and beautiful area. There is lots of people who live and work around Central Park all the time, who may be interested in our event. I even have pictures of people using the trails and running through the park. This middle picture shows a previous run held at Central Park. Now Denys will be telling you how The Good Sports Charity will be using the money we provide to them. Denys 1. Money spendings report After the volumetric explanation of the organization needs, strategy and beliefs. I can assume that you want to know the actual destination of raised money from the events and individual sponsors. We are presenting you the transparent and clear organization and can provide you any information of the money flow destination. The program’s main focuses were increasing the time of play for kids as well as adding the new kids to the program by providing the whole new equipment. The biggest contribution was received from DICK’s sporting goods along with FOX Sports, Under Armor and Arthur M. Blank Foundation. According to the last year report - they spent ten million dollars on the program services, meaning the equipment and donations. One million dollars went to fundraising events and administration. The final five million was spent on assets, including payroll, inventory, and cash equivalents. According to this information, over sixty five percent of our donation to Good Sports will be directly used for the kids. 2. Cupcakes Our cupcakes are all about representing an equality between kids in sports of any social, financial, national background. We truly believe that everyone has right to do their favorite sport. And the organization firstly trying to solve the problem of equipment – spending millions of dollars in different sports stores national wide. Our tablecloth and the color of cupcakes represent the organization color. Softball is the one of the top sponsored sports by our organization and we decided to represent it in a form of cupcake. Also, the lemon flavor deserves to be mentioned, its bitter – just like kids’ emotional feeling when they can’t play their favorite sports without equipment. Also, lemon drinks are very popular during the summer sport and reminds us of the good time spent with our friends and team. 3. Conclusion Smoothly moving to the conclusion, I would like to draw your attention once again to the event witch we going to be holding. I want to emphasize the transparency of the organization which we are presenting, showing that all money will reach the destination and every cent matters is this life-saving help. We strongly believe that together we can make our world and future better. We must act today to achieve our goal in near future. As we discussed the number of kids served (nearly 9 million) we can come to the thought that youth kids need sports in their life and foundation of the healthy society is an – freedom, sports, and education. Supporting Good Sports charity, you fully help to one of the three foundations of the healthy society. We highly appreciate your interest and attention to our charity.
