The Cal Ripken, Sr. Foundation collaborates throughout the United States with organizations serving at-risk youth living in America's distressed communities. We are a supporting partner to those organizations who, on a daily basis, play a critical role in developing, inspiring, and saving young lives. Since 2001, the Foundation has impacted more than 815,000 kids across the country.
To increase our reach to youth, the Cal Ripken, Sr. Foundation has formed partnerships with the following organizations.
The Association for Middle Level Education (formerly the National Middle School Association or NMSA) has been a voice for those committed to the educational and developmental needs of young adolescents. AMLE is the only national education association dedicated exclusively to those in the middle level. AMLE partners with schools and districts across the country to help generate on-site professional development plans designed to improve and reform middle schools.
The Community Action Partnership's mission is to be a national forum for policy on poverty and to strengthen, promote, represent, and serve its network of member agencies to assure that the issues of the poor are effectively heard and addressed. The Partnership is committed to improving the lives of low-income people. This is accomplished by educating, supporting, and empowering Community Action Agencies.
The Major League Baseball Players Alumni Association (MLBPAA) was formed in order to promote the game of baseball, raise money for charity, inspire and educate youth through positive sports images, and protect the dignity of the game through former players. A non-profit organization, the MLBPAA establishes a place where a player's drive for excellence and achievement on the field can continue long after they take their last steps off the professional diamond.
Athletes for Hope is a charitable organization created by a few very successful athletes of exemplary character who have a deep commitment to charitable and community causes. Andre Agassi, Muhammad Ali, Lance Armstrong, Warrick Dunn, Jeff Gordon, Mia Hamm, Tony Hawk, Andrea Jaeger, Jackie Joyner-Kersee, Mario Lemieux, Alonzo Mourning, and Cal Ripken, Jr. founded Athletes for Hope to pass on their passion for philanthropy to others. Athletes for Hope was constructed to educate, encourage and assist athletes in their efforts to contribute to community and charitable causes, to increase public awareness of those efforts, and to inspire others to do the same.
Headquartered in Washington, D.C., the U.S. Marshals Service is the nation's oldest and most versatile federal law enforcement agency. To this day, the Marshals occupy a uniquely central position in the federal justice system. It is the enforcement arm of the federal courts and is involved in virtually every federal law enforcement initiative. Deputy U.S. Marshals play a vital role as mentors across the country through the Badges for Baseball program.
K.I.D.S. is a global charity of leading retailers, manufacturers, and licensors of children’s and youth products, in partnership with major foundations, committed to helping improve the lives of children and their families who are ill, living in poverty, or are victims of natural disasters. K.I.D.S. pioneered a unique charity model more than 25 years ago that today aligns hundreds of companies with more than one thousand leading agencies.
K.I.D.S. and the Cal Ripken Sr. Foundation have entered into a collaboration known as Cal Sr.’s K.I.D.S in support of each organization’s goal of helping disadvantaged children. Through Cal Sr.’s K.I.D.S., the organizations will provide children’s clothes, books, toys, and other products at the opening of each new Cal Ripken, Sr. Foundation Youth Development Park across the country and bring hope and support to at-risk children and their families.
The National Police Athletic/Activities Leagues, Inc. exists to prevent juvenile crime and violence by providing civic, athletic, recreational and educational opportunities and resources to PAL Chapters. PAL is a youth crime prevention program that uses educational, athletic, and recreational activities to create trust and understanding between police officers and youth. Studies have shown that if a young person respects a police officer on the ball field, gym or classroom, the youth will likely come to respect the laws that police officers enforce.
National PAL is a natural partner for the Cal Ripken, Sr. Foundation as we join forces and work to help reduce juvenile crime through character education and life skills programming in America’s most distressed communities.
The Moyer Foundation, headquartered in Seattle, WA, is a public, 501(c)(3) non-profit organization founded in 2000 by MLB, World Series-winning All-Star pitcher Jamie Moyer and his wife, Karen. The mission of The Moyer Foundation is to offer encouragement, comfort and support to children enduring a time of profound emotional, physical or financial distress and provide opportunities for enhancing overall wellness, stability and quality of life.
