TILLIES TOUCH

Our mission is to provide the necessary equipment for any child when the family is unable to do so. Provide opportunities in playing sports, offer school supplies and tutoring needed to achieve success in school, and ultimately assist children by leveling the playing field.

The Westcott Community Center After School Program at Syracuse City School District (SCSD) at five SCSD locations for students in grades K-8.

- Our plan would be to offer a community center with soccer training and academic tutoring on multiple days and nights of the week. Using one large room as a community center and exercise area, where kids can train for soccer and exercise. A secondary room would focus on academics, where we would conduct tutoring. - Possessing our own site would allow Tillies Touch to grow further and offer our programming to more children. Our success rate speaks volumes (including a 100% high school graduation rate) and needs to expand to reach a greater audience. We are the only local organization that offers free soccer training but requires academic excellence for the kids we serve in CNY. The kids receive an opportunity to play soccer and before they know it, we are utilizing that love and passion for the sport. They become incredible students in the classroom and become high school graduates. Our focus is to break the chain of poverty that each of these children live in, and we have seen firs

funding for general operating expenses and multiple projects / eventswe hold throughout the year. General operating expenses include obtaining a site in the winter months that can be utilized as a practice and tutoring site, fees for indoor and travel teams, equipment, etc. needed to ensure our events are successful, and basic necessities for children in our organization.

Goal to supply every child with safe sports equipment.