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About PowerPlay
Who We Are? | Programs
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Board | Supporters and Partners
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Who We Are?
We think girls rock!
PowerPlay NYC is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization
dedicated to educating and empowering girls through sports,
teaching life skills and building self-confidence and self-esteem
for life!
Our resources and programs provide girls with opportunities
to feel connected, competent and confident. PowerPlay partners
with schools and community-based organizations citywide to connect
girls with female coaches and role models, creating opportunities
for girls to "discover their power through play."
We believe that girls who participate in sports are more likely
to feel better about their bodies, have higher levels of self-esteem
than girls who do not play sports and be better equipped to
create their own life success.
For girls, the playing field is still unequal. Schools are cutting
back on phys ed; sports resources are more accessible to boys;
male sports instructors significantly outnumber women instructors.
PowerPlay has stepped in to equalize the playing field. How
do we do it?
By providing trained female coaches for
sports skills and life skills training and creating girl-centered
environments to give girls a "safe" space to learn sports
skills.
By providing female mentors who can serve
as role models for girls and encourage them to broaden their
horizons.
By reinforcing the life skills for success
that are equally applicable to the playing field, the classroom
or the workplace.
"My experience at PowerPlay has been fantastic. Every day
we learn something new….My life has been completely changed
by this experience, from the way I eat to the way I speak.
My life will never be the same again." Christie R.,
talking about her 2006 PowerPlay Summer Leadership Academy
experience.
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UPCOMING EVENTS
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2006 STARS SUMMER LEADERSHIP ACADEMY - JULY 6 - AUGUST
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Calling all high school girls…Want to play sports, learn
how to make a TV commercial, meet successful women in sports,
participate in an internship with a NYC business or sports
organization? Apply now to the STARS Summer Leadership Academy.
Click here for the application or call 212-545-0021 for more
information. Click
here to download the 2006 STARS Summer Leadership Academy
Application.
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Programs and Resources
At a Glance
STARS Series
STARS Series is an after-school program promoting physical
activity and healthy living for young girls. The program objectives
are to provide girls with:
- Opportunities to learn sports skills and be physically
active,
- Encouragement and support from female coaches,
- Multiple opportunities to learn teamwork, and
- A safe space for discussion and expression.
During each 12-week session, the STARS Series Coaches provide
sports skills training (in either one selected sport or a
variety of sports) and lead the girls in the "GoGirlGo" Healthy
Living Curriculum created by the Women's Sports Foundation.
STARS Series 2005-06
STARS (Sports Training and Role Models for Success)
STARS (Sports Training and Role models for Success) - is an
after-school career education program created by PowerPlay
NYC, Inc. and the YMCA of Greater New York. The goal of the
program is to provide an opportunity for New York City high
school girls to:
- Explore a variety of sports careers,
- Receive training in important career and life skills
- Participate in a variety of sports and fitness activities
- Benefit from supportive relationships with positive female
role models.
STARS 2005-06
STARS Leadership Summer
Academy:
An intensive six week sports skills, life skills and career
training experience for high school girls. As part of the
Academy, girls participate in STARWorks, an eight day internship
at PowerPlay partners such as Sports Illustrated, HBO Sports,
New York Sports Clubs, Lady Foot Locker, the NHL, NYC2012,
Columbia University, WFAN Radio, and the Brooklyn Cyclones.
Girls Sports Directory
Find your favorite sport or try a new one!
PowerPlay's Girls Sports Directory
has information on 20 different sports all over the city.
The Directory is a great resource guide for girls (and their
parents!) to find sports activities by sport or by borough,
as well as to read articles on health, fitness, women's sports
history, Title IX and other topics.
RePlay
Give the gift of play! Through RePlay, we are collecting and
distributing used sports equipment to girls and community
programs throughout New York City. Click
here to learn more about how you can donate your old rackets
or gloves.
PowerPlay Days, one-day events with clinics
and workshops, can be organized for interested partners or
other groups. Events may include skill-building clinics in
a particular sport or sports, and/or educational workshops
on such topics as Title IX and gender equity, health and nutrition,
sports careers, sports psychology or college athletic scholarships.
See pictures here
PowerPlay NYC is leading a new wave of change, by opening
doors for girls to discover their power through play!
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Highlights from Summer 2005
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Summer
STARS
PowerPlay coaches worked with more than 2,000 girls and boys
at more than 20 public school summer camps at various sites
in the Bronx, Brooklyn, Queens and Manhattan with the Sports
and Arts in Schools Foundation. Campers ranged in age from 5-14
and practiced sports such as lacrosse, soccer, volleyball, basketball,
and football, and read and discussed stories about influential
female athletes. Both the girls and boys gained from the experience
of working with talented female coaches and hearing about famous
female athletes, like Wilma Rudolph, Gail Devers, Billie Jean
King and Babe Didrikson, who they may not have already known
about.
STARS Summer Leadership Academy
"The road to success is always under construction…PowerPlay
STARS have the skills to build." That was the slogan adopted
by the participants at the 2005 Summer Leadership Academy. Indeed,
the girls did acquire the skills to build. They played basketball,
volleyball, field hockey, lacrosse….Got a taste of martial arts,
yoga and cardio training…Learned crew with Row NY and personal
safety/communications skills with Prepare/Impact….Took trips
to the West Side Tennis Club, Brooklyn Cyclones Baseball and
the Columbia University College Fair…Mt the women executives
at Madison Square Garden….Filmed the The PowerPlay TV Talk show
with Olympian Gail Marquis, Hunter Sports Information Director
Camille Currie and PowerPlay founder Ellen Markowitz…Interned
at Lady Footlocker, Positive Coaching Alliance, New York Sports
Clubs, Ice Theatre of New York, the Brooklyn Cyclones….
"PowerPlay,
PowerPlay
How fun it is
We play different kinds of sports
And some of us have become a computer wiz.
The people aren't so bad
And you learn new things every day
The counselors are here to help
And your peers will cheer you on
To help see that you succeed.
We stay inside to play basketball
And go outside to play softball
Volleyball's another sport
But dodge ball is the competitive sport
Everybody wins.
The trips are cool
You learn to defend yourself
While others take abs classes
Yoga is fun
But swimming is better
Sometime they treat this like school
But we still be chilling." By Renice W."
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Board of Directors
| President |
Ellen Markowitz, EM.Power
Now, Inc. |
| Vice President |
Celayne Hill, JD,
Local Initiatives Support Corp. |
| Treasurer |
Connie Harper Castle |
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Lynn Chiavaro, Northwestern
Mutual Financial Network |
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Camille Currie, Sports
Information Director, Hunter College |
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Maureen Duffy, Positive
Coaching Alliance/NYC Teaching Fellow |
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Anna Isaacson, Community
Relations, Brooklyn Cyclones |
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Dana Lennon, JD |
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Faith Menken, MD, Surgeon
/Spence Tennis Coach |
| Executive Director |
Beth Rasin, JD |
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Advisory Board
| Member |
Karin J. Buchholz, New
York Knicks |
| Member |
Dr. JoAnn Deak, Consultant,
The Deak Group |
| Member |
David N. Dinkins, Columbia
University, School of International and Public Affairs |
| Member |
Wendy Hilliard, Aviator
Sports & Recreation/Wendy Hilliard Foundation |
| Member |
Dr. Jane Katz, Professor,
John Jay College |
| Member |
Donna Lopiano, Women's
Sports Foundation |
| Member |
Gail Marquis, Olympian,
JP Morgan Chase |
| Member |
Anne Keating, Korn/Ferry
International |
| Member |
Elisabeth Miranda, YMCA
of Greater New York |
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| Supporters
and Partners
PowerPlay would like to acknowledge our supporters and program
partners.Thank You!
| Supporters |
| Merrill Lynch |
NIKEGo Foundation |
| New York City Sports Commission |
Women's Sports Foundation |
| The Patrina Foundation |
Washington Square Fund |
| Pinkerton Foundation |
conEdison |
| Frances Lear Foundation |
New York Women's Agenda |
| Ralph C. Wilson Jr. Foundation |
Commerce Bank |
| Eileen Fisher Foundation |
New York City Sports Commission |
| Columbia University (Health Sciences
Division) |
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| Partners |
| YMCA of Greater New York |
Young Women's Leadership Schools |
| Liberty Partnerships Programs
at Bank Street College of Education |
The After School Corporation,
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| McBurney YMCA |
University Settlement of New York |
| Sports & Arts in Schools Foundation |
The New York City Housing Authority |
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| STARWorks Partners |
| Brooklyn Cyclones |
New York Sports Clubs |
| Columbia University |
New York City Sports Commission
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| HBO |
Positive Coaching Alliance |
| ICe Theatre of New York |
Sports & Arts in Schools Foundation |
| LAdy Footocker |
Sports Illustrated |
| NHL |
YMCA |
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