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- EIN 20-5126705
- (917) 754-4389
- 151 First Ave 210 New York NY 10003-2965 USA
- http://haroldhunter.org
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Nonprofit Overview
Causes: Children & Youth, Youth Development Programs
Mission: Hhf is a grassroots, skateboard community-based organization that provides support, opportunity, and advocacy for skateboarders in nyc so they can reach their full potential as skateboarders and as people. The mission is to use skateboarding as a vehicle to provide inner city youth with valuable life experiences that nurture individual creativity, resourcefulness, and the development of life skills.
Programs: The organziation assisted the inner-city youth as follows: 1) skate camp scholarship program: provided full scholarships to action sports training camp for 20 adolescents and 5 young adults. Scholarships included tuition, equipment, transportation, and spending money 2) digital media training program: provided intensive 8-week summer digital media training workshop to 20 adolescent and young adult skateboarders in partnership with parson's school of design 3) summer skate clinics: provded twice weekly summer skate clinics to 20 elementary and middle-school aged children in brownsville in partnership with the mt. Ollie baptist church 4) convened over 500 skateboarders for the annual harold hunter day skate jam 5) provided support for skateboarders to participate in local and national ameteur skateboard contests and connected them with potential sponsorships