Champions help the Alliance to spread the word about the Kids’ Movement and encourage kids to Join the Movement at empowerme2b.org. Thanks to all of our Champions who include:
Big Brothers Big Sisters of New York City
Menudo
Camp Fire USA
NBA Cares
Channel One News
National Recreation and Park Association
City Year
Rachael Ray’s Yum-O
Harley Pasternak
YMCA of the USA
IDEA Health & Fitness Association
Youth Service America
Jewish Community Center Association
Big Brothers Big Sisters of New York City is one of the most recognized and respected youth mentoring organizations in the country. Through its proven one-to-one mentoring model, Big Brothers Big Sisters of New York City strengthen the resiliency of the children in its programs, heightening their self-esteem, improving school performance, enhancing social and family relationships, and helping them avoid trouble with the law.
Camp Fire USA is one of the nation's leading not-for-profit youth development organizations, currently serving nearly 750,000 children and youth annually. Camp Fire USA, provides all-inclusive, coeducational programs in hundreds of communities across the United States. Founded in 1910, Camp Fire USA's outcome-based programs include youth leadership, self-reliance, after school groups, camping and environmental education and child care.
Peabody and Webby award-winning Channel One is the preeminent news and public affairs content provider reaching more than 7 million teens in middle schools and high schools across the country, nearly 30 percent of teenagers in the U.S. Channel One News programming has been featured on leading networks and news programs, including CNN, ABC News, the WB, Nightline and The Today Show.
City Year unites a diverse corps of young adults for a demanding year of full-time citizen service, civic leadership and social entrepreneurship. Founded in Boston in 1988, City Year has established programs in eighteen cities across the country and in South Africa. These young leaders put their idealism to work for the children and communities they serve by school-based service, youth leadership programs, and community transformation through service projects.
New York Times best-selling health and fitness author Harley Pasternak is well known for helping top Hollywood celebrities transform their lives by eating better and exercising more. Harley earned a Masters of Science in Exercise Physiology and Nutritional Sciences from the University of Toronto, and an Honors Degree in Kinesiology from the University of Western Ontario. He is also certified by the American College of Sports Medicine and the Canadian Society of Exercise Physiology. Harley is a popular speaker throughout the United States and other countries.
IDEA is the world's leading membership organization of health and fitness professionals, with more than 22,000 members in over 80 countries. For over 25 years, IDEA has provided health and fitness professionals with unbiased data, pertinent information, educational resources, career development and industry leadership. IDEA's membership includes personal trainers, program and fitness directors, business owners and managers, and group fitness instructors.
The Jewish Community Center Association supports the largest network of Jewish early childhood centers and Jewish summer camps in North America, and is also a U.S. government accredited agency for serving the religious and social needs of Jewish military personnel through JWB Jewish Chaplains Council.
Two generations later – a new, updated version of MENUDO is back, with a new hit single, “Lost” on Epic Records. With the same contemporary sound, look, and universal appeal, the five new members Carlos Olivero (19 years old); Chris Moy (15 years old); Emmanuel Vélez Pagán (17 years old); José Bordonada Collazo (16 years old) and Monti Montañez (19 years old) have joined the empowerME movement and are challenging every kid in America to do the same by logging on to www.empowerme2b.org.
NBA Cares is the league's social responsibility initiative that builds on the NBA's long tradition of addressing important social issues in the United States and around the world. During the first year of NBA Cares, teams, current and former players, and the league office contributed 250,000 hours of hands-on service to the community, raised more than $40 million for charity, and created 146 places where kids and families can live, learn or play.
The National Recreation and Park Association is a national not-for-profit organization dedicated to advancing park, recreation and conservation efforts that enhance quality of life for all people. Through its network of more than 21,000 recreation and park professionals and citizens, NRPA encourages the promotion of healthy lifestyles, recreation initiatives, and conservation of natural and cultural resources.
Launched in 2006 by Rachael Ray, Yum-o!™ is a nonprofit organization that empowers kids and their families to develop healthy relationships with food and cooking by teaching families to cook, feeding hungry kids and funding cooking education and scholarships.
YMCAs respond to critical social needs by drawing on their collective strength as of one of the largest not-for-profit community service organizations in the United States. YMCAs serve thousands of U.S. communities, uniting 1 million children and adults of all ages, races, faiths, backgrounds, abilities and income levels.
Youth Service America (YSA) seeks to improve communities by increasing the number and diversity of young people, ages 5-25, serving in important roles. Founded in 1986, YSA is an international nonprofit resource center that partners with thousands of organizations in more than 100 countries to expand the impact of the youth service movement with families, communities, schools, corporations, and governments.
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