For the past 19 months I’ve had the privilege to work for an amazing action sports youth development organization and take away valuable life lessons and memories. Our core values: Success, Teamwork, Openness, Kudos, Energy, and Determination create our culture here. We thrive on those values at work and in our lives. One of the [...]
Surf Mentor 2012 Scores a 100% with Youth
Surf Mentor is our summer program for inner city kids in Los Angeles and New York. We make trips to local beaches in both of those cities, and teach those youth how to surf while also mentoring them in life skills. Here’s a look at what went down this summer across the coasts. Los Angeles [...]
Dolphins Surf with STOKED
What do you think of when you think of dolphins? Playfulness, community, harmony, friendship. The picture above was taken at Surf Mentor Los Angeles a few weeks ago. 18 Stokers were surfing and suddenly someone shouts, “Ooh Dolphins!“ Then a bunch of youth start shouting “Can we go swim to it?” Most of these [...]
STOKED Beach Party – Aug 25 NYC – New Date
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The Power of STOKED
How do you translate a foreign concept like surfing to a freshman in high school from New York City? Taimir is a regular student at one of our schools in Downtown Brooklyn. On paper he’s an average student, but there’s nothing average about him in STOKED. He caught the STOKED bug at the beginning [...]
SURF Mentor – Remembering your first wave
Think of a girl who grows up with few options in the summer. She has no summer camps, family vacations, or a summer job. Instead she has a hot one bedroom apartment shared with her mom and two brothers, with only the city streets to wander. Now imagine that same girl spending her summer on [...]
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Movie Night + Raffle to Benefit STOKED Los Angeles 6/22
What: ZJ Boarding House Movie Night showing “The Innermost Limits of Pure Fun” + A RAFFLE TO BENEFIT STOKED When: Friday, June 22 Time: 7:30pm – 10:30pm Where: Across the street from ZJ Boarding House on the California Heritage Museum Lawn **Loaded is donating 2 complete setups with 2 sets of Orangatang wheels to the [...]
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Goldman Sachs Community TeamWorks Revamps ‘Surf Shack’
Today is the first (real) day of summer, but we’ve been prepping for surf season for a while. Last week a dozen Goldman Sachs Community TeamWorks volunteers spiffed up the ‘Surf Shack’ on Beach 69th Street in the Rockaways, Queens, where we store our gear and enjoy the shade during Surf Mentor. They also helped [...]
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STOKED Los Angeles on the Up and Up
At STOKED we teach youth the value of learning from mistakes and persevering through obstacles. What kind of organization would we be if we didn’t do that ourselves? Admittedly STOKED has gone through growing pains, but under the leadership of Stoked Charlie and the epic support of Los Angeles volunteers and sponsors, STOKED Los Angeles [...]
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A ‘Quik’ History of Quiksilver and STOKED
It’s a pleasure to recognize our supporters and today STOKED would like to thank the Quiksilver Foundation for their longstanding support. Seven years ago the Quiksilver Foundation donated six surfboards to our first Surf Mentor program. It wouldn’t be a stretch to say that we’ve kept afloat in large part because of the sustained support [...]
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