A donation to STOKED is an investment in the people who actually show up. Every coach we place walks into one school, twice a week, for thirty three weeks, in front of twenty young people who get the same adult until June. They also run snow trips, skate sessions and enrichment days outside the classroom. Your gift is what builds that coach. $150,000 by December 31.
Three things you can check. STOKED takes $0.00 in government money, an actual zero line in our books. We operated in the black. And schools cover most of what it costs to run a program in their building, while donors close the rest.
A school is buying coverage: someone in the building, twice a week, until June. Fair deal, and they pay it. What no school will ever buy is what happens to that coach.
That is the bench. It is the difference between a coach who lasts a season and a coach who becomes the reason a young person stays.
Partner schools buy the program that runs inside their walls, and they pay most of what it costs. Donors close the remainder.
No school is ever invoiced for the bench. Not one dollar of it. This is the part that only exists because someone chose to fund it.
276 hours a year with the same young people, plus 48 hours of training for the coach. About six hours with young people for every hour of training.
The 78 hours outside the classroom are snow trips, skate sessions and enrichment days. A school day does not cover those.
One bench is $11,000 for a year. Ten benches, plus the rent and the bookkeeping no school is ever invoiced for, is $150,000.
The full numbers, line by lineQuarterly report · as of Sept 30This is the whole argument, and it is the reason we ask for the bench rather than the placement. A placement is thirty three weeks and then it is over. A coach you actually built stays, and then mentors the next one, and the young person who had them at fourteen comes back at nineteen to do the job.
Fund one bench and you are not funding one year. You are funding the person who runs the next four, and the one they hand it to.
Last school year we were in eight buildings and reached 479 young people, thirty three weeks each, with five paid coaches. Mission 01 ends at fifteen schools on December 31. Same model, same length, more buildings.
Here is why the building count is the thing to watch rather than a headline number of kids. The research says a one off does not work. Exposure alone, a field trip or a career day, does not close anything, because people can meet each other and still not befriend each other. What breaks that is repeated time at shared stakes. Falling down in front of the same people, twice a week, for most of a year.
Low income children who grow up in places with high cross class connection earn about 20% more as adults. And for people aged fifteen to twenty four, in person time with friends has fallen roughly 70% since 2003.
Chetty et al., Nature, 2022 · US Surgeon General, Our Epidemic of Loneliness and Isolation, 2023
A coach who is trained, supervised and mentored is how thirty three weeks becomes that instead of a nice afternoon. Fifteen buildings is fifteen rooms where it happens on purpose.
Most giving disappears into a general fund and you never hear what it did. Here you get a coach, a mentor, a building, and a line item you can point at. Every price below is a real line from the list further up this page.
One coach and the mentor in their corner, for a full year. Their training, their supervision, their gear, their background checks, the software the school sees, and the coverage that lets any of it happen. The school pays for the hours. You pay for the person those hours are worth.
Sixteen hours before they ever run a session, then four hours every month after, and they are paid for all of it. This is the line that decides whether someone lasts a season or builds a career out of this.
Recruit, screen, train, onboard, match. Mentors give their time free, so this is never a fee to a person. It is what it costs to find the right adult for a twenty three year old coach and stand them up together.
Jacket, hoodie, two tees, a hat, and shoes, all branded. A coach in STOKED colors is someone a young person can find across a plaza. A coach in street clothes is a stranger.
Monthly is what lets us promise a young person a coach in October and still have one there in May. It is unrestricted on purpose, because rent and bookkeeping cannot be paid from a restricted gift, and a coach without a building is not a program.
A one time gift is a good month. Monthly is what a coach can be hired against, and what a fourteen year old can be promised. It holds a piece of a bench every month of the year, and we can plan a school year around it.
Give $49 a monthOr pick another rung. All of them are unrestricted.
Catalysts fund the whole machine at $1,500 and up. The room, the quarterly earnings call, and a real say in where this chain goes next. This one is a conversation, not a checkout.
Not every gift wants to be a card payment, and some of these are worth real money to you as well as to us.
STOKED is a registered 501(c)(3). EIN 56-2530783. Your gift is tax deductible to the fullest extent allowed by law.