On May 15th, CrossFit Affiliates and individuals across the country will compete in a "Beat The Streets" Fundraiser WOD to support at-risk youth fitness and the Steve’s Club National Program, a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization. Please get involved! CrossFit has the power to change lives, and these kids need a positive influence to get them off the streets.
To learn more about how Steve's Club is partnering with local Affiliates to offer fitness, nutrition, and personal development to underserved youth populations, check out: www.stevesclub.org. To participate, ask your Affiliate to host the "Beat the Streets" Fundraiser WOD on/around May 15th. Register online and for every point scored and dollar raised, kids in tough neighborhoods can attend a local CrossFit (a Participating Member of Steve's Club) at a subsidized cost. You can make a difference.
If your Affiliate wants to create an at-risk youth program, or you'd like to be involved in contributing to the National Program, please contact Lee Knight (lee@stevesclub.org), Steve Liberati (steve@stevesclub.org), or Troy Willis (troy@stevesclub.org)
Steve’s Club and its Participating Members provide a national network of programs through which at-risk or underserved youth of any socioeconomic background can join the CrossFit Community at a reduced, low or no cost structure.
The greatest discovery any outsider could make about Camden is it's overriding response to failure: If it didn’t work last year, do it AGAIN this year (and if possible do it MORE).
Every year they pass more laws, hire more police, build more prisons, and sentence more offenders for longer periods-all without moving one inch closer to “ending” crime. If it didn’t work last year or the year before that or the year before that or the year before that, but you can be sure we’ll try it again this year, knowing beyond a shadow of a doubt that it won’t work this year either.
Every year they spend more money on schools, hoping to “fix” whatever’s wrong with them, and every year the schools remain stubbornly unfixed. Spending money didn’t work last year or the year before that or the year before that, but you can be sure we’ll try it again this year, knowing beyond shadow of a doubt that it won’t work this year either.
Every year they try to make the criminals go away, and every year they remain with us. We couldn’t shoehorn these criminals back into the “the mainstream” last year or the year before that or the year before that or the year before that, but you can be sure we’ll try it again this year, knowing beyond a shadow of a doubt that it won’t work this year either.
Maybe its time to TRY something DIFFERENT.
Afterall, IF Camden is saved, it will not be saved by old minds with new programs but by new minds with no programs at all.
Much of my inspiration comes from Daniel Quinn in "Ishmael."
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