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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ING Marathon

Only 3 days and 21 hours left until Team Stoked hits the pavement for the ING Marathon! Hope everyone is pumped and ready to run for the cause. We would like to thank those who have supported and are participating in the marathon. They have done a great job fund raising to keep the Stoked Mentoring Programs running.

Come out to support Team Stoked this Sunday, November 1.  If you’re in Manhattan, meet us at 11:30AM at 1st. Ave between 80th and 81st in the Upper East Side.  If you’re Brooklyn, meet us at 9:30AM at 4th Ave. between 3rd  St & 1st St in Carol Gardens.

Thank you Team Stoked for training so hard to support us!

Christopher Crosby
David Beilinson
Francois Bor
Caitlin Bradley
Alexis Broder
Jamie Choi
Maureen Connolly
Gabriel Cross
Aubrey Dilatush
Bob Eagen
Tricia Eldred
Omar Igram
Markus Lotz
Selema Masekela
Steve May
Stacy Mazzola -Alexandrou
Ryan Mcloughlin
John Mestayer
Ann Monahan
Yvonne Moon
James Myers
Mary Obidinski
John Philips
Eric Salvador
Stephanie Smith (mentor)

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Los Angeles supplied a beautiful warm sunny day for it’s resident Stokers. Here are a few shots taken of mentors and mentees kicking off the new skate season. Everyone enjoyed themselves while learning new tricks and showing off their skills.

Mentor Mark instructs Mentee Maricela

Mentors Carol and Jeremy all geared up

Mentee Kevin warming up.

Mentor Mark shows his skillz

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We’re inviting the Stoked NYC family to celebrate: the end of our program season, the Team Stoked runners in the NYC marathon, and the upcoming Stoked Awards. Saturdays NYC, a new Surf & Espresso shop in Soho is a great space & environment for Stoked to hang out this Fall!

Stoked Afterwork Soiree @ Saturdays NYC

Saturdays NYC
31 Crosby Street (between Grand & Broome)

Thursday, Oct 29, 2009
Time: 6:00 – 8:30pm

To attend RSVP: newyork@stoked.org
Must be 21 yrs and over to attend.

Hosted by: Tyler Breuer, Founder, of the New York Surf Film Festival

Here’s a review of Saturdays:
http://www.urbandaddy.com/nyc/6431/Endless-Summer

There will be music, light food, Barefoot Wine, & Inocente Tequila

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“What the mind of man can conceive and believe, it can achieve”.

Napoleon Hill

Napoleon Hill (October 26, 1883 – November 8, 1970) was an American author who was one of the earliest producers of the modern genre of personal-success literature. His most famous work, Think and Grow Rich, is one of the best-selling books of all time. Hill’s works examined the power of personal beliefs, and the role they play in personal success. He successfully became the presidential advisor to Franklin D. Roosevelt from 1933-36. “What the mind of man can conceive and believe, it can achieve,” is one of Hill’s hallmark expressions. How achievement actually occurs, and a formula for it that puts success in reach for the average person, were the focal points of Hill’s books.

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