Become A Volunteer Backyard Sports Cares programs are enhanced by the participation of energetic committed volunteers. We are looking for young athletes and student leaders to serve as peer mentors in our existing community outreach programs. For more information about volunteer opportunities, please contact the BYSC office at (914-304-4052). Become A Partner Collaboration with other … Continue reading “Join Our Team”
We just concluded a successful soccer camp in partnership with the New Rochelle Board of Education. Camp Shape provided 60 participants ages 7-15 yrs. old with a fun and challenging 4 week program. Highlights included skill contests, a mini world cup tournament, camper vs. counselor All Star Games, and a visit to Red Bulls Stadium … Continue reading “Summer 2014 Camp Shape at New Rochelle”
Backyard Sports Cares is now a designated charity on the Amazon Smile program associated with Amazon.com. At no additional cost to you, Amazon.com will contribute a portion of the sale to Backyard Sports Cares. It is easy to sign up and list Backyard Sports Cares. Please go to Amazon Smile or click here to learn … Continue reading “Support Backyard Sports Cares on Amazon.com”
BTIG, a global financial service firm, presented Backyard Sports Cares a check in the amount of $50,000 as a nominated organization in its 2014 Charity Day. Since its inception in 2003, BTIG has donated over $28 million in commission profits to hundreds of charitable organizations around the world. Numerous celebrities from the sports and entertainment … Continue reading “BYS Cares Accepts $50,000.00 Check for BTIG Charity Day”
As the 2014 BYS Plus Baseball comes to a close this weekend, BYS is happy to share some photos from the program. Our great staff lead the way as they got to interact with some exceptional student athletes whose skills grew exponentially throughout the program. We loved seeing the smiles on the kids faces as … Continue reading “2014 BYS Plus Baseball Hits Another Grand Slam”
After a great start to Backyard Sports Cares partnership with Sound Shore Indoor Tennis, they put a wonderful article describing the success of the program on their website. Please click on the link below to have a quick read. http://soundshoreindoortennis.com/usta-eastern-backyard-sports-cares-and-sound-shore-launch-tennis-program-for-underserved-youth/
Friday night was all smiles for the more than 60 kids from White Plains and Port Chester who came to play in a new tennis clinic in a collaborative Public/Not-for Profit partnership with Sound Shore Indoor tennis and the USTA Eastern Region. Spearheaded by Backyard Sports Cares , 8 local tennis professionals as well as local high … Continue reading “Backyard Sports Cares,USTA Eastern and Sound Shore Indoor Tennis Partner for New 6 week Tennis clinic for more than 60 underserved Youth…What a Night!”
It only took three weeks, but BYS Cares reached and surpassed their #sportsmatter fundraising goal! The Jefferson Elementary School of New Rochelle and BYS Cares thanks all of their supporters for continuing the early morning soccer program. Although our goal has been reached, we are still looking for as much support as we can to continue to … Continue reading “BYS Cares Sportsmatter Fundraiser Surpasses Their Goal!!”
After one week of crowd funding, BYS Cares has reached 72% of it’s goal! This is a huge accomplishment as BYS Cares and Jefferson Elementary School would like to thank our supporters. With one month to go we are almost at our goal but need to keep reaching. To donate go to www.byssportsmatter.com. Thanks again for everyone’s … Continue reading “One week down, One month left, 28% to go!”
The whistle has blown as BYS Cares crowd funding begins. Addressing an issue of unsupervised, early morning elementary school drop offs, Backyard Sports Cares created the Jefferson Early Morning Soccer program to provide soccer equipment, coaching and games prior to the start of the school day. The impact of the program has far surpassed … Continue reading “Support Early Morning Soccer at Jefferson Elementary School!”
Backyard Sports Cares has been selected by Dick’s Sporting Goods to participate in a fundraising campaign to help us raise $8000.00 to support our early morning sports program at Jefferson Elementary School in New Rochelle. We must raise $4000.00 directly through on line crowd sourcing. When we achieve our goal, Dick’s will contribute the matching … Continue reading “BYS Partners with Dick’s Sporting Goods!!”
Friday nights at Sound Shore Tennis in Port Chester, NY belongs to Backyard Sports starting in May to help boys and girls ages 8-18 to play a sport they have never been exposed to before. We will be partnering with local professionals as they look forward to teaching new skills and creating a wonderful … Continue reading “Backyard Sports Cares Rallies with Sound Shore Indoor Tennis”
Another BYS Plus soccer season has come to a close. We were very excited to teach and watch the players perform numerous soccer skills, and grow throughout the program. We look forward to another exciting season next year with returning and new players. Check out some of the photos from the program at our Facebook … Continue reading “BYS Plus Soccer scores another goal closing out it’s 5th season of soccer!”
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75 South Broadway, Suite 453
White Plains, NY 10601
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Backyard Sports Cares is a registered 501(c)(3) not-for-profit organization. Gifts to BYSC support programs that strengthen and enrich the development of Westchester children and are tax deductible to the full extent of the law.
