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- EIN 41-6038537
- (612) 824-6099
- 4005 Nicollet Ave Minneapolis MN 55409-1516 USA
- www.innercitytennis.org
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Nonprofit Overview
Causes: Children & Youth, Children & Youth Services, Racquet Sports, Sports
Mission: Innercity tennis foundation (ict), founded in 1952, is on a mission to unleash and develop the potential of youth on and off the tennis court by engaging and serving a supportive community. The foundation uses tennis as a vehicle to engage adults and provide coaching, mentoring, and life skills development to youth at ict's tennis center and all throughout minneapolis in parks, schools, and partner locations. Innercity tennis is a social enterprise that delivers financial and social returns to further its mission. Our tennis center, along with the contributions of our generous donors, provides the critical financial support needed to deliver ict's life-changing programs for youth.
Programs: Adult services:ict promotes the health, wellness, and community needs of adults by providing public access and low-cost individual and group instruction in the lifelong sport of tennis. No registration fees are required; thus, the facility is open to all. Ict also encourages its very active and supportive adult community to give, volunteer, and share their time and talents with kids. Ict engages adults knowing that intergenerational volunteer engagement with youth has far-reaching benefits for both groups in terms of physical and social/emotional health and development.
junior instruction program: ict's cities academy is our fee-based junior instruction program delivered after school and on weekends, with scholarship support through our reed sweatt memorial scholarship fund. Top-level coaching supports youth in developing their potential on court, as well as academic counseling to emphasize high school success and entry to college.
youth programs:ict's youth programs are specifically designed to promote health, education, community, and character. These programs are delivered in 8 minneapolis schools and partner locations, 23 minneapolis parks, and at ict's 12 court indoor tennis center in south minneapolis. Each year, approximately 5,000 mainly underserved youth are taught and mentored by ict via:1) free-of-charge programs in schools, partner organizations, and super saturdays at ict's tennis center, and 2) fee-based, out-of-school-time summer tennis in the parks and cities academy programs that are open to all through need-based scholarships. Those in need include at-risk kids, children of color, children from low-income families, and children diagnosed on the autism spectrum. Ict's free-of-charge programs and scholarships for its fee-based programs, ensure that ict programming is available to all children, regardless of their financial circumstances.
the innercity tennis foundation occasionally rents its facility to groups wanting to play tennis and its equipment store sells items that its clients require.