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Burton Chill
Project Goal
$40,000.00 |
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Organization description:
Chill is a nonprofit intervention program for disadvantaged inner-city kids. Chill teaches underprivileged, at-risk kids to snowboard over six weeks each winter, giving them everything they need for the experience: lift tickets, instruction, bus transportation and head-to-toe gear. We currently have programs in 15 cities throughout the U.S. and Canada that will reach 2550 kids in 2007.
Burton Snowboards founded Chill in 1995 in our home city of Burlington, Vermont. Initially, our goal was to bring snowboarding to kids who otherwise wouldn’t have the opportunity. But we soon saw that the program had an immediate and lasting impact on the kids who participated, and we have been expanding to new cities ever since.
Chill serves youth who are challenged by a multitude of issues: youth in group homes and foster care, with addictions, from the juvenile justice system, from alternative schools and community centers, those struggling with drugs, violence, excessive anger, or depression. Many of the kids have never left their cities, even their neighborhoods, and most have never been to the mountains. Chill gives all of these kids the chance to shed their labels of "addict", "delinquent", "trouble-maker", "under-achiever" and, through their own personal success, become a "snowboarder."
Contact:
Burton Chill Program
80 Industrial Parkway
Burlington, VT 05401
www.chill.org
E-mail: chill@burton.com
Michele Boguslofski – Director of Chill
Phone: 802-651-0326
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