Kids in Seats

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Causes: Education, Elementary & Secondary Schools, Literacy

Mission: About Us Our Mission: Kids In Seats is a non-profit organization that promotes achievement in disadvantaged youth by using event experiences as motivational tools to recognize and reward their academic achievement and positive social behavior. Our Reach: To achieve the broadest impact possible, we work directly with social service agencies and schools supporting hundreds of thousands of families nationwide. We play a vital supporting role in their efforts by sourcing tens of thousands of premier event experiences each year and allocating them – free of charge – so they can be used as positive reinforcement tools with deserving kids. As these organizations report sharp decreases in funding for their supplemental programs or worse, the removal of these funds entirely from the budget, the value we add to the mission of these agencies and schools becomes more critical each year. Our Donors: We solicit and receive these event experiences from a generous donor network that includes individuals, corporations, season ticket holders, suite owners, teams, venues and leagues. Using an online process, we then work with the agencies and schools to ensure the experiences are appropriately allocated to deserving children. Our Impact: Children supported by these agencies and schools earn experiences by reaching goals they set with the mentor or teacher that knows them best. The reward may be recognition for improved academic performance, changed social behavior or community work. The feeling of being rewarded for a behavior modification or a tough goal reached also incentivizes them to set greater goals for themselves. Over time, their repetitive positive behavior helps to develop useful character habits and increases their discipline, determination and perseverance. Over the past 11 years, the staff of Kids In Seats has incentivized more than 170,000 local youth with event tickets valued at more than $10 million. Our efforts to solicit and match event experiences with social service agencies and schools as incentives for their youth population is a simple mission – with amazing results.

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2 Stories from Volunteers, Donors & Supporters

HAYESUP Client Served

Rating: 5

09/27/2019

Kids in seats have given the students of Cardinal Hayes a tremendous opportunity and a life-long experience that they will always carry with them throughout their lives, and for that we say thank you to Kids in Seats. I am the person who is responsible for giving out the tickets to the students in my school as a reward for outstanding attendance, participation in both school and community events. I asked the students what they thought about Kids in Seats and this is how I summed it up for the purposes of this review.
As students, we are members of the Student Activity Christian Committee, National Honor Society, President’s Men, Student Council and Government at Cardinal Hayes High School, we are devoted to the betterment of all Hayesmen and our community. We accomplish this goal through a variety of activities such as: Two Annual Blood Drives, Thanksgiving Food Drives, helping with the school play, Christmas Toy Collection, and so many other school functions. S.A.C.C. is open to all students seeking self-development, community service opportunities, leadership skills and academic improvement. Being part of this organization has made us appreciate everything that we have and to not take anything for granted. In the 2018-2019 school year, we were able to collect 3,750 cans and raised more than $4,200 during our Annual Thanksgiving Food Drive, which we then distributed it equally to four local parishes/churches. In addition, we are responsible for two Annual Blood Drives. Cardinal Hayes High School had the honor and privilege to be recognized as one of the biggest donors of blood among high schools in the Bronx by Ruben Diaz Jr., President of the Borough of the Bronx.
As kids from the Bronx, in fact the poorest congressional district in the whole United States, we never envisioned ourselves being able to receive regular tickets and even suite tickets to Barclays Center or Yankee Stadium or Citi-Field, nonetheless experience the perks that come sometimes with the tickets, such as free food. Kids in Seats have made life-long dreams of ours come true. We can assuredly say that you have become a great influence in our lives and overall happiness. Before today, we envisioned our Wednesday or any other day of the week as just a regular day of school in the morning and come home right away after dismissal. However, you have transformed our regular Weekdays and even weekends into possible extraordinary experiences, because we never know if because of what we do to help in Hayes or our neighboring community our efforts might be rewarded with tickets to a sporting event that without Kids in Seats would not happen otherwise. Not many kids can say that they received free Suite tickets to a Major League Baseball game, NBA game or an NHL game out of the generosity of a stranger, but because of you, we can.
We would like to say thank you on behalf of all the kids at our school, whom have you have given the opportunity to receive free tickets. Organizations and donors through your group are who we hope to be like in the future and hopefully when we make it in life be able to give the opportunity to some other deserving kids. You have made many of us feel very important and appreciated, and that is a feeling that we will never forget. Thank you for everything.

ofc12 Board Member

Rating: 5

09/27/2019

Great non profit. Have had the opportunity to work with them over a year. My clients have had great experiences with Kids in Seats. We at Our Foundation for a Children will continue to support and work with KIS whenever possible, thank you KIS for all you have done for us.

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