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New Dimensions Soccer: Fostering Community Through Soccer and Education

New Dimensions Soccer Corporation is a nonprofit organization dedicated to integrating immigrant children into the St. Louis community through soccer and sportsmanship while promoting education and multicultural understanding.

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New Dimensions Soccer: Fostering Community Through Soccer and Education

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  1. Agenda/Contents • About New Dimensions Soccer • Our Philosophy • Reasons/Opportunity for New Dimensions • New Dimensions Activities and Growth • Future Planning • Current Supporters

  2. Introduction – About Us • New Dimensions Soccer Corporation is a nonprofit corporation and is organized exclusively for charitable, educational, health, social welfare and community betterment purposes by providing instruction in moral and character development; integrating immigrants into the St. Louis community via soccer and sportsmanship while fostering international understanding. • We are a 100% volunteer organization, and is recognized as a charitable organization under the Federal Income Tax section 501(c)(3) of the Internal code.

  3. Introduction – About Us • Our capacity to create and learn is built upon five (5) principles/disciplines, crucial to the success and longevity of the organization: • Team Learning: learning how to recognize patterns of optimal team interactions. • Shared Vision: sharing “pictures of the future” that foster genuine commitment and enrollment rather than compliance. • Understanding Mental Models: Similar to Team Building, embracing this discipline allows us to question the “way we’ve always done it.” • Personal Mastery: communicating our vision in an effective manner and deepening that vision by being committed to lifelong learning. • Systems Thinking: understanding the connectedness of the patterns of the world around us as opposed to only seeing events in isolation. Seeing the “whole” as greater that a sum of its parts.

  4. New Dimensions Philosophy • The ultimate focus of this effort is community betterment through the vehicle of athletics, in this case, soccer. • Outreach program that is multicultural and generative: • Multicultural in the sense that we strive to connect with refugee, immigrant children and their families new to St. Louis from war-ravaged countries as Liberia, Somalia, Afghanistan, and Russia, to name a few. • Generative in that the environment originates and stimulates continued physical, mental, and social growth.

  5. Reasons/Opportunities • Provide access to the game of soccer for: • Under served • Under privileged • Immigrant children • Provide Optimum Learning Environment: • 4 vs. 4 Format • No Coaching from sidelines • No keeping score or standings • Extend “Skills” beyond Soccer • Life-skills (partnership, cross culture, assimilation)

  6. Activities and Growth • Started with Soccer, demonstrating the ability to build trust • St. Louis International Youth Soccer Festival • 4v4 Session Play • Tournaments: • University City • Midwest Soccer Academy • Coaches Clinics

  7. Activities and Growth • Developed Partnerships • CBC High School • Center for Torture and War Trauma Victims • Refuge of Nations • Christian Friends of New Americans • UrbanFuture (Fanning/Mann SLPS) • St. Louis Public School (Bush School) • Catholic Charities (International Youth Soccer League/IYSL) • St. Mary Magdalen Catholic School (Winter Futsal) • St. Louis Scores • Metro Strikers

  8. Activities and Growth • Life Skills Support • Essay Writing Contest • Guest Speaker – Genocide Survivor • Cultural Exchange Program • Counseling • Soccer Drives • Soccer Jersey Drive • Soccer Shoe Drive • Shin Guard Drive • Scholarship Program • Placement of exceptional immigrant children that exhibit extraordinary efforts scholastically, athletically, and personal growth into private educational institutions.

  9. Activities and Growth

  10. Future Planning • Soccer • Extend Further into Immigrant locations (2008) • Add a potential 4th playing location (2008) • 8v8 Pilot Session (Spring 2008) • League Sponsorship (2009) • Solidify Cultural Exchange Program • St. Louis (Started in 2007 and Schedule in 7/2008) • Holland (3/2008) • Japan or Greece (2009)

  11. Future Planning • Additional Partnerships • International Institute (2008) • Boys Club (2008) • Extend Life Skills Support • Cross-team support (2008) • New Dimensions Corporation • Insurance (Limited Liability, etc.) • Child safety (background checks) • Vehicle for transporting children • Field Rental, Goals, Netting, Cones • Expansion of Scholarship Fund

  12. Supporters • Past Supporters: • Genovese Jewelers • GMS Incentives • Reuters • CBC High School • Individuals • New 2007 Supporters: • St. Louis Mortgage • Gund Corporation • Ackerman Toyota • JS Logistics • Entell Communications • Individuals Looking to Expand!!!

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