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For participating in The 2021 ASICS Falmouth Road Race

Description

Shooting Touch is a global sport-for-development organization whose mission is to use the mobilizing power of basketball to bridge health and opportunity gaps for youth and women facing racial, gender, and economic inequalities.


Founded in 2007, Shooting Touch Inc. utilizes a sport-for-social-development model that invests in youth and women of color by providing increased access to physical activity and education that encourages healthy habits and personal development. Since its inception, Shooting Touch has grown from a grassroots basketball program in Boston into an international non-governmental organization that has served over 25,000 youth and women in six different countries. Shooting Touch was founded with the goal of taking the convening power of sport to help improve the lives of youth and women facing race, gender and health opportunity gaps by using basketball to achieve three critical objectives:

1) Provide equal access to physical activity

2) Increase access to health education and health services

3) Promote social change


We currently operate two signature sport-for-development programs simultaneously - one in Boston, MA and the other in Eastern Rwanda. The combined organization directly serves over 2,000 youth and women and indirectly impacts an additional 7,500 youth and women every day. Our detailed curriculum and program provide on- and off-court health education and intervention, mentorship and empowerment towards a pathway to a better future. 


We serve:

Boston: Over 200 girls, ages 9-17 throughout 5 of Boston’s urban communities.

Rwanda: Over 1,300 youth, ages 7-21, and 700 women 21+, from 6 rural communities in the Republic of Rwanda’s Eastern and Northern Provinces.


Shooting Touch is excited to be a part of the 2021 ASICS Falmouth Road Race Numbers For Nonprofits Program and will have 10 runners in this year's race!

Team members

Click on one of our team members below to make a donation.

Recent donors

Donation date Donor name Donation amount
Jul 14 Brendan Huang Undisclosed amount
Jul 12 Peter and Carol Tannenwald Best of luck to David Tannenwald. Undisclosed amount
Jul 10 Robert Tannenwald Undisclosed amount
Jul 08 Anonymous Good luck David $109.85
Jun 25 GORDON KWOK Good luck Morgan $11.75
Jun 25 Ally Sequeira Go Morgan!! :) $28.10
Jun 25 Anonymous Undisclosed amount
Jun 25 Eoin Walsh $28.10
Jun 25 Maureen Hilton Good luck!! $28.10
Jun 25 Maribeth Moriarty Kriss Law Good Luck! Huge accomplishment!! $28.10