We’re Stoked to have Snow Mentor NY 2010 kick off! Seeing these pictures motivates us to continue to serve more youth through action sports and mentoring. 5 Years and Counting!

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New Year, new decade, new mentoring season!  And if that’s not enough cause for celebration, we’ll also commemorate our 5 Year Anniversary this Saturday from 11:00AM – 3:30PM at Belleayre Mountain.  Join us for a park contest and a day of music, prizes and giveaways – lift tickets are only $25 and proceeds from the first 200 tickets go to Stoked!  Park Jam contestants – be sure to get there early to register for the event.

Get ready for a season of fun NYC- Snow Mentor sessions begin on Saturday!  Special thanks go out to Belleayre Mountain, Rome Snowboards, and to all those who have supported us in the past.  We couldn’t do any of this without your help.

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Here are some pictures courtesy of Lauren Ross:

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We’re thrilled to offer our Los Angeles supporters a truly one of kind event called Stoked Spirit of the Holidays. There will be live music, a skate ramp, live screen printing, and more! All of this to benefit Stoked LA. We will be honoring philanthropist and pro skateboarder, Rob Dyrdek with the Stoked Spirit Award for opening a skatepark in the MacArthur Park section of Los Angeles. Tickets are only $25 and it helps increase the amount of kids we serve in 2010!

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Our 3rd Annual Stoked Awards was a huge success. Thanks to our sponsors DC Shoes, Milk Studios, Cadmus Capital, and X Games. Thanks to all of you who came out and supported.

Here are pictures from last Thursday from Lauren Ross:

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Here is a clip from last year’s Stoked Awards!

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We’re pleased to announce that Stoked Founder, Steve Larosiliere is now a featured blogger on the Huffington Post’s Impact Section. We’re grateful for the opportunity to share our knowledge, insight, and expertise in the field of non profit youth development. Check out his first article called The New New New Thing.

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We’re pleased to announce that Team Stoked and Stoked Founder, Sal Masekela have successfully completed the NYC Marathon on November 1st. All together, over $80,000 was raised for Stoked during this effort. The funds used from this will go towards increasing our capacity to serve more kids with mentors, and expand our afterschool program.

We’re grateful to Sal and all of the other runners! Here are pictures from Sal from the marathon!

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Stoked Phoebe

What’s your name and title?
Phoebe Brauer
Program Manager, Stoked L.A.

What are your day to day responsibilities?
I run the Stoked LA office and programs. My day-to-day covers pretty much anything and everything. I might start the day meeting with the Board of Directors of a Foundation, have a conference call with Nike, meet with some of the teens after school and finish off the day by sweeping and mopping the office. I think Steve might say I’m a hustler for Stoked. But maybe that sounds bad. In addition, I work on everything from fundraising and marketing to program and mentoring to strategy and administrative work.

What is the best part working at Stoked?
However cliche this sounds, it’s definitely the teens with whom I have the pleasure of working with. They are the reason I do what I do. Seeing the smallest growth in them can make me smile for a week. Watching them learn about themselves, become more confident, and push themselves is one of the highest privileges for me.

What is your favorite Stoked moment?
Ooooh. This is hard! There are too many! I’ll just go with the most recent one. It was last Saturday at Skate Mentor and one of our sophomore girls, Maricela, was convinced she couldn’t skate up a mini ramp. So she started small and practiced the whole day, pushing herself to go a little faster and a little higher. She definitely ate it a few times, but she kept going and finally by the end of the day was able to skate the ramp that she thought was too hard for her. She proved to herself that she is capable of anything she sets her mind to do, that if she believes in herself she can achieve anything. To me, that’s what Stoked is all about. Reminding each teen that they are special and unstoppable.

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Stoked Plus is in full effect and now in Queens!  Our 10-week after school program enables teens to learn communication skills and teamwork while building their own skateboards. We are currently in the second semester at Brooklyn School of Collaborative Studies (BCS) and have expanded our program to a new school, Information and Technology High School (ITHS) in Queens. Orientation was on Wednesday for our new school and today we will start skateboard building at BCS!

Here’s a picture of Orientation at ITHS.

Students attending orientation

Stoked Display at ITHS

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