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KidSport™ Ottawa helps Ottawa children & youth from low-income families participate in organized sport by providing grants for sport registration fees & equipment.
Fact Sheet:
THE GRANT PROGRAMS
KidSport™ Ottawa currently offers three types of grant programs:
- funding for sport registration fees and/or equipment;
- donated sport team placements; and,
- donated sport camp placements.
To date KidSport™ Ottawa has helped over 700 children and youth from low-income families participate in sport.
FUNDRAISING, DONATIONS & PARTNERSHIPS
KidSport™ Ottawa raises money and provides goods in kind through fundraising activities and events, donations, and, partnerships with corporations, sport organizations and the public sector.
KidSport™ Ottawa issues tax receipts for donations through it’s affiliation with KidSport™ Canada, a Registered Canadian Amateur Athletic Association (RCAAA).
Fundraising Activities & Events supporting KidSport™ Ottawa include:
- KidSport™ Ottawa’s Annual Women’s Recreational Volleyball Tournament, since 2004
- Annual MOTH (Montreal - Ottawa - Toronto Hockey) Tournament, since 2004
- Annual National Capital 8-Hour Skate presented by Top of the World Skate Shop, since 2010
- 1st Annual Borden Ladner Gervais LLP Basketball Challenge, launched in 2009
- 1st Annual KidSport™ Ottawa Skate-a-Thon at Brewer Oval, launched in 2010
- 1st Annual KidSport™ Ottawa’s Ride for KidSport™ and Bicycle Safety Check, launched in 2010
Corporate Partnerships:
- Play It Again Sports - became an official partner in January 2010 providing tri-annual in-store fundraising campaigns, discounts to KidSport™ Ottawa grant recipients and serving as a drop off station for equipment donations for KidSport™ Ottawa.
- Somersault Events - became an official partner of KidSport™ Ottawa in March 2010; making KidSport™ Ottawa the Charity of Choice for each of its Ottawa series events & highlighting KidSport™ Ottawa for the Fall Colours Event in October.
- Telus - In May 2010 KidSport™ Ottawa was honored with a $10,000 grant from the Telus Community Board to be directed towards the grant process and improving current programming.
Sport Organizations:
- SportsCan - 40 registration places provided in 2010
- Bell Sensplex Summer Hockey Camps - 21 registration places provided in 2010
- Nepean City Soccer Club - 12 quarter registration places provided in 2010
- Spike's Volleyball Camp - 10 registration places provided in 2010
- Ottawa West Golden Knights Hockey - 10 registration places provided in 2010
- Gloucester Dragons Soccer - 10 registration places provided in 2010
- Parkwood Hills Softball Association - 8 registration places provided in 2010
- Ottawa-Carleton Ultimate Association - 4 registration places provided in 2010
- Mike's Baseball Camps - 4 registration places provided in 2010
- Stittsville Minor Hockey Association - 2 registration places provided in 2010
- Ottawa New Edinburgh Club - 2 registration places provided in 2010
Public Sector Funding:
- KidSport™ Ottawa received grants from True Sport and the Ontario Trillium Foundation in 2009 for programming and administration.
- In May 2010, KidSport™ Ottawa proudly accepted $10,000 from the Community Foundations of Ottawa for expanding the Summer Fun Soccer program and making coach training available to parents and volunteers involved with the program.
ORGANIZATION & STRUCTURE
KidSport™ Ottawa is a volunteer, non-profit organization, which formed in 2004, initially in partnership with the City of Ottawa’s, City Wide Sports Division to provide after-school sport programs for disadvantaged children.
In 2005, KidSport™ Ottawa became a chapter of KidSport™ Canada and issues tax receipts for donations through KidSport™ Canada’s status as a Registered Canadian Amateur Athletic Association (RCAAA).
KidSport™ Canada was formed in 2005 as a children’s charitable program in recognition that barriers, including rising sport registration and equipment costs, were negatively effecting children’s participation in sport. KidSport™ Canada currently has 173 local community volunteer chapters in 11 provinces and territories.
Run by a volunteer board of directors, KidSport™ Ottawa hired a full-time program coordinator in October 2009 to manage the day-to-day activities of the organization.
OTHER ONGOING & NOTABLE ACTIVITIES
KidSport™ Ottawa hosts multiple FunZone awareness events around the City to promote physical activity and sport opportunities available to children in those areas.
February 11, 2005 was declared KidSport™ Ottawa Day by the Mayor of Ottawa, Bob Chiarelli.
In 2006, KidSport™ Ottawa provided sport registration to over 500 children from underserved areas in the Summer Fun Soccer and Hoops 3-on-3 Basketball programs.
The Crisis:
Today’s children & youth are the least healthy & least active in Canadian history! There is a direct link between childhood inactivity & barriers to organized sport.
Please help keep Ottawa's disadvantaged children & youth in organized sports by Donating Now!
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