Oakland Lacrosse Annual Report 2020

ANNUAL REPORT 2020

A S H A R ED MESSAGE

KEVIN KELLEY FOUNDER AND EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR

HAROLD LOWE BOARD PRESIDENT

The founding principle of Oakland Lacrosse Club (OLC) is unconditional love. While our method to engage youth introduces them to a sport not traditionally exposed to their community, our purpose is to give them an environment where caring people help them develop lifelong skills: leadership, teamwork, worklife balance, healthy living through exercise and nutrition, and using competition to manage success and cope with loss.

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Chabot Claremont Oakland Tech

Montera Edna Brewer

WOMS La Escuelita

Oakland HS

Over 1000 6-12th graders exposed to lacrosse

Bret Harte Skyline HS

Roosevelt

Melrose Leadership

172

players on seven teams in grades 6-12

Over 70% qualify for free and reduced lunch

Elmhurst East Bay Innovation

Monitored grades of 100 middle schoolers

Lighthouse

College and Career Counseling for 75 high school players

Madison Park

57% Girls, 43% Boys Over 90% of players formed positive relationships Over $22,000 in COVID Family Emergency Fund Distributed Over 2,300 healthy snacks distributed

20%

21%

R AC E B R E AK D O W N 8%

Asian

15%

14%

Black or African American 22%

Latinx Prefer not to Identify Two or More Races White Oakland Lacrosse Annual Report 2020 | 3

2 0 2 0 MAJOR I N I TIATIV E S

COVI D R ESP O N S E

FALL PROGRAM

$22,000 in COVID support was

In response to COVID and feedback from our community, Oakland Lacrosse created a 12 week program for 57 players which included the features below.

Over 20 house visits were made by OLC Coaches for wellness checks on individual players and families.

Weekly check-ins with mentors,

provided to OLC families via Safeway Cards, technology support, and housing support.

Over 100 hours of virtual programming was given to over 100 OLC families for lacrosse, academics, and wellness.

Personal check-ins and phone calls with all 172 players in the program were provided.

developing healthy habits and working on fall goals related to lacrosse, academics, and wellness were provided.

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in person, contact-less Pod Play Clinics (groups of 12 or less) were included.

12 virtual community meetings occured,

including team building, weekly workouts, guest speakers, and discussions focused on the election and social justice.

9 workshops were provided focused on

academics, college, career, and wellness.

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BUILDI NG A D I V E RS E A N D INCL US I VE C U LT U R E Our Program Director, Allison Allouche, initiated critical conversations within NCJLA to address racism experienced in our league. Now in partnership with NCJLA, she is chair of Lacrosse Community Anti-Racism Coalition, aimed to build a more inclusive, empathetic, youth-centered experience for all 46 clubs, and over 8,000 players in the league.

We partnered with Restorative Justice Oakland (RJOY) to conduct 4 racial healing conversations for players, families, coaches, and staff.

All staff attended multiple workshops from the Becoming an Antiracist Organization capacity building series, hosted by Be The Change Consulting.

LEADIN G WIT H T HE GIRLS To address Title IX, challenges in the Oakland Unified School District, Oakland Lacrosse is partnering with the Oakland Athletic League to create a district wide lacrosse league with Girls Varsity Teams at each high school.

Over the next three years this initiative will expose over 4,000 young women to lacrosse and create Girls Varsity programs at six high schools.

In 2021, Oakland

Lacrosse will build Girls Varsity programs at Skyline High School and Oakland High School.

Hired Monica Branch, as our

full time Girls Coordinator, a graduate of Oakland Tech (2012), and hired Ariam Semere and Lucia Pillars, Oakland Lacrosse alumni, to be mentors and coaches.

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L A C R O SSE PR OGR AM M ING

Player Spotlight: NICK CLICK HERE for a full story

KEY PARTNERSHIP: Premier Lacrosse League provided workouts for our players and guest speakers, including Jeremy Thomspon, who shared the historical and spiritual meaning of lacrosse to the Onondaga Indigenious community.

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LACROSSE PRE COVID (January to early March)

COVID PIVOT (March to November)

• 750 Middle School Youth exposed to lacrosse via 25 outreach classes in January

Spring

• 172 players registered on seven teams between grades 6-12 • 27 Oakland Public Schools represented • Middle School teams (100 players) 26 hours of lacrosse instruction per player • High School teams (72 Players) 40 hours of lacrosse instruction per player

• Virtual program that includes weekly fitness, lacrosse workouts, wellness, and shelter in place resources for 172 players from March until May • Weekly Zoom Check-ins for six teams from March to May Summer • Engaged over 40 players, for 6 weeks, at five accessible park locations throughout Oakland in contact-less pod play clinics that emphasized fitness, stick skills, and lacrosse IQ Fall • Built on the success of Summer Pod Play to provide similar clinics to 57 players, for 9 weeks • In conjunction with Fall programming, able to provide more individualized and position specific coaching, within a cooperative and also competitive environment

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L E A DER SHI P

KEY PARTNERSHIP: Oakland Lacrosse continues to partner with Up2Us Sports, a national organization whose mission is to train and support coaches to transform youth, programs, and communities.

In 2020, Up2Us provided funding for two OLC coaches serving 1,300 hours and Up2Us invited five of our girls to participate in their Young Voices Series.

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Player Spotlight: ANGELINE CLICK HERE for a full story

LEADERSHIP PRE COVID (January to early March)

VIRTUAL PIVOT (March to November)

• All teams implement sports based youth development curriculum, focused on positive communication, hard work, being a great teammate and unconditional love

• In partnership with Dragon School, Oakland Lacrosse players creatively collaborated with local artist Dan Akuna to speak out against racial injustice by creating a mural in downtown Oakland

• Player organized team building and enrichment activities • Players of the week honored for embodying OLC values • High School Players coach in youth program

• Young Voices Series: Five OLC Young Women facilitated a conversation about leveling the playing field for girls and their experiences as female athletes to a national audience on: She Changes the Game on Up2Us Sports Young Voices Series • High School Players Role Modeling Success 10 High School players at two different workshops shared strategies to our middle schoolers about overcoming the challenges of transitioning from middle to high school and multiple high school players volunteered to provide tutoring support

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A C A DE MI CS, COL L E G E & C ARE E R PATHWAYS

Player Spotlight: HENRY CLICK HERE for a full story

KEY PARTNERSHIP: This fall ESM Prep provided both individual college counseling and group workshops for our juniors and seniors. This included a step by step outline to prepare for, and complete the college application process. Our seniors received additional support to finalize their college list, highlight their strengths in the college application, and weekly support with their personal statement and essays.

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ACADEMICS PRE COVID (January to early March)

VIRTUAL PIVOT (March-November)

• Academic Coach monitored 100 middle school player’s grades

• Partnered with ESM Prep to provide intensive college counseling to 21 (10 hours per player) juniors and seniors

• Supported transition and enrollment of 35 8th graders to high school

• Summer Virtual Workshops for over 30 players included Career Panel and Networking, College Readiness and Application Process, Building a College Resume, and A-G requirements • Fall Virtual Workshops included workforce development led by the head of HR for Biz Media, and Paying for College Workshop that reviewed the FAFSA process and other means of finding money for college

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W E L L N E SS

VIRTUAL POTLUCK CLICK HERE for a full story

KEY PARTNERSHIP: Mandela Partners provided Community Supporting Agriculture boxes for our families and mentors and led our virtual cooking workshop, where our players and families made roasted acorn squash salad.

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WELLNESS PRE COVID (January to early March)

VIRTUAL PIVOT (March-November)

• Over 950 healthy snacks distributed to middle school program

Spring

• Over 450 healthy snacks distributed to high school program • Planned Workshops with program partner Kids Cooking for Life on “How to Fuel an Athlete’s Body” for all teams (eventually postponed)

• Delivered over 70 hot meals to families during the Virtual Potluck event to culminate our Spring season Summer • 6 virtual workshops for over 40 players, including financial literacy, yoga, and increasing sleep and reducing screen time • Over 150 healthy snacks distributed Fall • 60 CSA boxes distributed to families with ingredients for virtual cook-a-long • Using One Love Curriculum had critical conversations with 6th-10th graders about the signs of healthy and unhealthy relationships to empower our players to practice unconditional love on and off the field • Over 300 healthy snacks distributed

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FIN A NCI AL S 0.5% Individual Donors

$427,000

5% 13.5%

Government Contracts

$103,000

TOTA L RA ISED

16%

65%

$655,445

Foundations

$89,000 Corporation

$32,120 Registration

$4,325

Lacrosse

$113,000

16%

21.7%

23.8%

Wellness

$45,000

EX PENSES $475,000 18.5% 10.5%

9.5%

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Academic & Enrichment

$88,000

Community

$50,000 Fundraising

$103,000 Admin/Operations

$76,000

DO N O R S /PAR TN ER S IN DI V I DUA L I N V ES T O R S Walid Abdul-Rahim Ben Allison Adam Allouche Alexander Allouche Jordan Ambler Sandra Ambrozy Cristen Andrews Karen Appleton Doug Appleton Scott Atkinson Sandhya Avula Tela Bacher Mark Baker Thomas and Deb Barnds Meg Barton Christos Bastis Colleen Bates Yosef Becher Miles Bellamy John Belzer Sarah Benatar Samuel Bennett Brian Berejik Peter Birkholz Adrian Bjune Theodore Blackburn Mark Blake Linda Boessenecker Monica Branch Elaina Briant Pam & Jason Brown Julie Brown Andrew Buhrmann Meghan Bushnell Joan Cahill Jon Cairns John Cardente Catiliana Cariaga-Nakumara Kat Carnevale Scott Carter Patricia Centeno Tyler and Thalia Chan Edward and Tina Chen Tammy Chang John Christmas Sally Chong Eileen Clark

Mike Clark Matthew Clark Chris Clark Edward and Patricia Cluss Kim Cobb Dan Cohen Jake Colclasure Michael Conn Phil Connolly Jennie Cook Lindsay Cook John Cook Kat Crichton Todd and Kim Crockett Michael Crown Finn Curtin Joanne da Luz Joe Daly Sasha Dansky Graham Davidson Scott Davidson Kathleen Davidson Tracy Dearman Joseph DeMember Marni Deshong Rick Devine Robert Dixon Matthew Dobbs Sadie Dodson Eric and Jennifer Dovichi Pat Downs Ben Doyle Thomas Drelles Katia Dunkel Daniel and Kathleen Dunn Maximilian Dunoyer Braden Edwards Frank Egoff Chris Eldridge Elizabeth Eldridge Robert and Dana Emery David Epstein Brooke Eubanks Jonathan Fearn Elliott and Shelley Fineman Wendy Fisher Noah Flessel

Tom Flinn Alicia Florin David Florin Sharon Flynn Nancy Foster Carol Foster Jennifer Frank Leslie Fried Kyra Friedell Marc Galletti Kristen and Brad Garlinghouse Cole Gendels Justin Gibson Carissa Goodwin Rivka Gordon Jamie Green Barbara Greenspan Henry Guo Mark Guthrie Steve Gutterman Billy Hackett Barbara Sue Hall Elna Hall Sterling Hardaway Lawrence Hart Ed Hattler Karin Hauptman Matt Heafey Kristen Heald Karen Healy-Silcott Carly Hegle Beth Heires Andrew Hempeck Tracvis Henry Matthew Holmes Luke Holthouse Megan Holston-Alexander Ruth Housenbold Terrance Howzell Jack Huber Jackie Hunter Thomas Huntington Bert and Jane Inch Mike Iorio Hunter Irvin Chris Irving Wes Jacques

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DO NO R S/PAR TN ER S Tim Jenkins Sook Cho and Michael Jung Caryn Kali Spencer Kaplan Vinay Kashyap Brian Kelley Bob and Flo Kelley Bobby Kelley Vivian Kem Joshua Kemp Casey Kermes Robert Kidd Amy Kimball Griff King David Klein Tom Klein Sasha Klimczak Steve Klimczak David and Danielle Kling Jeff and Amy Knaus Richard Knutson Chelsea Kocis Mark Kol Isaac Kos-Read David and Laurie Krane Tyler Kreitz Ann Kuhlman Robert Langdon Maria Laxo Diana Leon Amanda feinstein and Paul Leonard Doug Leone Darcy Leschly Matthew Levy Star Lightner Cristy Johnson & Tom Limon Patrick Lin Stephen Linoweaver Christian Lopez Richard Lowden Harold Lowe Cam Lu Kathleen Lyons Patricia Ma Ian and Paige Macleod Terri Bartelero & Dag Macleod Miles Makdisi Rob Mann

CONTI NUED

Pam Mari Sean Marx Bryan Massengale Whitney Masters Michael Mauze Tammy Mayle Lucas McAdams John McCulloch Kerry McCulloch Jonathan McDougal Thomas McKinley Diane McKone Connor McLeod Phli Mcloud Charles Meister John Mell Michael Melone Andrew Menke John Meyjes Charlie Michelson Ginger Miles Eddie Miller Jeff Mills Adam Miner Katherine Minnick Joy & Tom Mistele Kelly Morehead Mary Morrell William Mulkerin Phillip and Kathleen Murphy Andrew Nathenson Scott Neal Matt Neidlinger Michelle Nelson Chris Nelson Carole Nelson Kim Neto Hilary Newland Ria Nickens George Northup Kristin and Anthony Noto Dan Nourse Private Ocean Gloria Olvera Robert Ott Mark Pallis Theodore Pallis Ethan Pavlet Anne Peritore

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Stefanie Perry Peter Pervere Rhett Peterson Matt Petroski Richard Philbrook Jack Pierce Jamie Pillars Kathleen Welsh and Bill Plautz Lyn Porterfield Kassy Potter Martina Proia Tyler Queenan Rachel Quilici Geoffrey and Barbara Raaka Brian Radomski Andrea Raider Manju Ramachandran Olivia Ravasio Emma Reese Sara Richard Kennedy Richardson Charles Rickett Cindi Rivera-Beam Alex Robertson Ben Rosenthal Mark Rurka Gwen Russakis Brian Rutherford Paul Rydberg Jack Sanford John Sasaki Rayna Saslove Amy Schlater Bob Sciutto Victoria Scolini Dan Scribner Michelle Seely Kathleen Seiter Nick Sheehan Paul Sheehan Jean Shen Jim Sherry Morgan Shidler Jeffrey Shields Eric Skeen Kelly Skeen Tyler and Michelle Sloat Lisa and Matt Sonsini Paul D. and Marolyn Stanley

Jeff Starr Spencer Stenmark Carle Stenmark Sam Steyer Andy Still Sam Stowe Mark Strauch Janine Sung Ruby Surgent Carol & Tom Switalski Megan Switalski Hammond Phil Tagami Kathryn Tanner Kevin and Debra Taweel Jill Thayer Jessica Thomas Bill Thomspon Cynthia Tiangco-Withers Lauren Timms Lockey Todd Jackson Tran Tu Tran Ben Travers Dena & Carlos Trujillo Eric Tuscia Lisa Tyburski Mason Uemura John and Amy Underwood Glenn Urban Owen Van Arsdale Alison Van Dyke Ann & Rob Vawter Ralph Vawter Nick Vetter Orit Vogel Deryck Wade Andy Wang Daniel Watson Sarah Waxman Ned Webster Sarah and Dan Wernikoff Denise Wescott Susan Whitacre Alicia White Wayne Wiebe Francoise Williams JaDonna Williams Jeff Williams Francoise Williams

John Winther Danielle Wohl Matthew Wolpoe Richard Wong June Wong Stacy Kent Wyckoff Monica and Alexander Yu Karen Zak Danni Zuralow Dori Zweig Kym Zylinksi

C O R P ORATIONS AND FO U N D ATIONS ADVNC Lacrosse Alcatraz Outlaws All Stars Helping Kids Banks Family Foundation Burlingame Coyotes City of Oakland Sweetened Tax Fund Dechomai Foundation Diablo Valley Lacrosse Club Dodge and Cox Firehawks Lacrosse Freedom Finacial Franklin Templeton Investments Key Bank Foundation Kresge Foundation Magpie Norcal Foundation Oakland Tech PTSA Omidyar Network Fund Olympic Club Sling It Lacrosse Southern Marin Lacrosse Top Hatters Kitchen and Bar United Business Bank Up2Us Sports Wesphal Family Foundation

PROGRAM PARTNERS Bay Area Resource Center Bay Area Transport Services Dragon School East Bay Asian Youth Center ESM Prep Laney College Mandela Partners Northern California Junior Lacrosse Association Oakland Athletic League Oakland Leaf Oakland Parks and Rec Oakland Renissance Oakland Unified School District Premier Lacrosse League RJOY St. Mary’s College Teas With Meaning UC Berkeley Men’s Lacrosse UC Berkeley Women’s Lacrosse Up2US YCore Network

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O L C S TA F F

ADVISORY COUNCIL

OLC BOARD

O L C B O A R D/ STAF F NAME

BOARD POSITION

PROFESSION

Harold Lowe

Board President

Financial Planner

Carle Stenmark

Treasurer

Partner at VMG Partners

Catie Nakamura

Secretary

UC Berkeley Gift & Fund Stewardship Manager UC Berkeley School of Law (Retired)

Kevin Kelley

Board Member at Large

Executive Director Oakland Lacrosse Club

Tom Limon

Board Member at Large

Associate Director at Newmark Knight Frank; City of Oakland Planning Commission

Matt Clark

Board Member at Large

Education Specialist-Oakland Unified School District

Carol Foster

Board Member at Large

Board Director, Hercules Capital

Karen Healy-Silcott

Board Member at Large

Girls Director Firehawks Lacrosse Club

NAME

PROFESSION

Doug Appelton

General Counsel at Halo Dx, INC.

Scott Atkinson

Managing Partner, Heidrick & Struggles

Mark Blake

Financial Executive Meriwether Group

Phil Connolly

Chief Financial Office, Navegate, Inc.

Kat Crichton

Tech Services, Sequoia Capital

Graham Davidson

Managing Principal at Slatewater Capital

Steve Klimczak

Senior Financial Executive, Merck and Co, Inc.

Jeff Knaus

Vice President of Sales at AgilOne

Chan U Lee

President, Devine & Gong, Inc.

Ian MacLeod

Operating Partner at Welsh, Carson, Anderson & Stowe

Brian Silcott

Head of Player Experience Premier Lacrosse Leauge

Dariana Szykier

IT Program Manager at Gap Inc.

Denzel Tongue

MPP Candidate at the Goldman School of Public Policy

NAME

POSITION

Kevin Kelley

Executive Director

Allison Ambrozy Allouche

Program Director

Hayden Cook

Boys Coordinator

Monica Branch

Girls Coordinator

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