ADAPTIVE SPORTS FOUNDATION INC
Empowering lives through adaptive sports
Mission
Empowering lives through adaptive sports.
Ruling year
2000
Executive Director
John Iannelli
Main address
PO Box 266
Windham, NY 12496 USA
Formerly known as
Disabled Ski Program at Ski Windham
EIN
14-1823155
NTEE code
Recreational and Sporting Camps (Day, Overnight, etc.) (N20)
Sports Training Facilities (N40)
Winter Sports (Snow and Ice) (N68)
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Communication
Programs and results
What we aim to solve
ASF students are five years of age and older and live with disabilities ranging from relatively mild learning disabilities to more severe disabilities such as paralysis, autism, amputation, cerebral palsy and traumatic brain injury.
Founded in 1984, the Foundation's work promotes physical activity for children and adults with disabilities. ASF students are five years of age and older and live with disabilities ranging from relatively mild learning disabilities to more severe disabilities such as paralysis, autism, amputation, cerebral palsy and traumatic brain injury.
Winter recreation programs are offered on an individual and group basis from December through March and feature alpine skiing and snowboarding. ASF has a very active competition program, preparing athletes for Paralympic and Special Olympic competition.
Our summer military programs teach veterans golf, recreational and competitive canoeing and kayaking, cycling, stand up paddle boarding and personal fitness.
Our programs
What are the organization's current programs, how do they measure success, and who do the programs serve?
Warriors in Motion®
The ASF’s Warriors in Motion® (WIM) program provides participating injured United States servicemen and women with a basic knowledge and practice of wellness and the importance of lifelong healthy living. Each event includes adaptive sports and nutrition instruction as well as other healthful practices such as yoga, and stress reduction techniques. Over the course of the event, there is also time for the participants to connect with each other. We view the time that veterans spend together as an essential part of their healing. All Warriors in Motion programs are goal oriented and empower warrior, to take charge of their own fitness and wellness.
Competition Programs
The Adaptive Sports Foundation’s competition program is open to advanced skiers or riders who are interested in developing their race skills and are seeking a group training atmosphere.
Competition Racing Program
Paralympic Sport Club Windham is a program of the ASF conducted in partnership with United States Paralympics, and is open to Paralympic eligible athletes who are seeking to become nationally and internationally competitive.
Recreational Racing Program
The ASF Race Program provides a seasonal weekend racing program for skiers and snowboarders with cognitive or physical disabilities, whose aspirations are more recreational in nature. These athletes compete in the Special Olympics and Catskill Mountain series events through the United States of America Snowboard and Freeski Association (USASA). Some will go on to compete in regional and national races.
Winter ski and snowboard program
The Adaptive Sports Foundation’s work promotes physical activity for children and adults with disabilities by offering winter activities for recreational skiing and snowboarding.
Adaptive Summer Camps
The Adaptive Sports Foundation hosts both Adaptive Skateboard Camps and Adaptive Summer Camps during the summer months. The ASF brings in a group of skateboard coaches to help teach people with disabilities, mainly cognitive disabilities, how to get comfortable on a skateboard. This goes from holding the student's hands and walking alongside them to get them rolling to ultimately teaching them how to push off and ride the board themselves. If the student is confident enough in their ability, the coaches may even teach them some skateboard tricks.
The ASF Summer Camps are four days filled with outdoor activity, from swimming and kayaking on lakes to playing baseball, basketball and volleyball at a local park. The participants also learn golf techniques at a local course that allows the program to utilize its driving range and putting green.
Where we work
Awards
Not for Profit Organization of the Year 2013
Northern Greater Catskills Chamber of Commerce
Affiliations & memberships
Association of Fundraising Professionals - Member 2000
American National Red Cross 2000
Professional Ski Instructors of America Member School 2020
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Our results
How does this organization measure their results? It's a hard question but an important one.
Number of lessons taught
This metric is no longer tracked.Totals By Year
Type of Metric
Output - describing our activities and reach
Direction of Success
Holding steady
Context Notes
Lesson Number is down in 2021 & 2022 due to closure from March - August as a result of the COVID-19 Pandemic.
Number of new clients within the past 12 months
This metric is no longer tracked.Totals By Year
Population(s) Served
People with disabilities, Chronically ill people, Military personnel, Veterans
Type of Metric
Output - describing our activities and reach
Direction of Success
Increasing
Context Notes
Did not accept new students in 2021 & 2022 due to COVID-19 Pandemic.
Number of volunteers
This metric is no longer tracked.Totals By Year
Type of Metric
Output - describing our activities and reach
Direction of Success
Holding steady
Context Notes
2021 and 2022 Volunteer Numbers decreased due to COVID-19 Pandemic.
Number of participants attending course/session/workshop
This metric is no longer tracked.Totals By Year
Population(s) Served
People with disabilities, Chronically ill people, Military personnel, Veterans
Related Program
Winter ski and snowboard program
Type of Metric
Output - describing our activities and reach
Direction of Success
Holding steady
Our Sustainable Development Goals
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Goals & Strategy
Learn about the organization's key goals, strategies, capabilities, and progress.
Charting impact
Four powerful questions that require reflection about what really matters - results.
What is the organization aiming to accomplish?
1. Develop strategic partnerships in areas of programming, education and fundraising.
2. Maintain, develop and expand the current base of volunteer and staff talent.
3. Develop a consistent brand that is recognized nationally and internationally.
4. Deliver consistent communications across all areas of the organization.
5. Deliver high quality programs in a professional first class manner while maintaining sense of a close-knit community.
6. Research, develop and deliver new programs based on the needs of key populations served.
7. Develop a stable and diversified financial portfolio to support organizational and program growth.
What are the organization's key strategies for making this happen?
Initiatives-Business Planning
Programs
• Conduct market feasibility studies related to summer programming in the areas of populations to serve, sports to offer and geography of the programs.
• Conduct market feasibility studies related to winter programming in the areas of offering more sports as the resort expands its offerings.
• Develop future program plans based on feasibility studies with implantation in 24 months
• Develop new strategic partnerships.
People
• Develop a structure for a volunteer category for fundraising activities.
• Develop a structure and avenue for parents/families to give input to the organization and programs.
• Develop avenue for volunteer representation to organization's leadership.
• Develop succession planning and professional development planning among key staff positions/personnel.
• Sustain current volunteer numbers in the winter programs
• Sustain and continue to improve current volunteer training programs
Communications
• Provide clear, transparent and consistent internal and external communications to all ASF stakeholders.
• Research the feasibility of a new branding concept for the ASF.
• Develop annual organizational benchmarks and measurement tools to assess organizational and staff performance.
Facilities, Equipment and Technology
• Develop and conduct tracking/feedback system for students, families and volunteers that compile demographics, satisfaction, and overall impact.
• Maintain the high quality and accessibility of the Gwen Adaptive Sports Center.
• Maintain an up to date and state of the art compliment of sporting equipment needed to meet the needs of students and programs.
• Maintain and build long term maintenance fund.
• Maintain high levels of safety standards and procedures.
• Research feasibility and availability of additional facilities to meet future student and program need.
Finance
• Maintain 80% or more of each dollar directed to program and services.
• Conduct feasibility study for an endowment campaign.
• Develop future programs that contribute positive revenue to the annual operations budget.
• Develop stable and reoccurring sources of revenue.
What are the organization's capabilities for doing this?
1. 40 years experience in teaching adaptive sports
2. Highly committed and experienced staff who on average has been with the organization for years
3. 8,000 square foot adaptive sports center located slopeside to Windham Mountain
4. 40 year partnerships with Windham Mountain
5. Past success in helping establish adaptive sport programs at the Double H Hole in the Woods Ranch and West Point Military Academy
6. Numerous professional affiliations with various national sport organizations including Disabled Sports USA, US Paralympics, Professional Ski Instructors of America, American Association of Snowboard Instructors, and American Canoe Association.
7. Nationally recognized competition program with two national and internationally competitive athletes
8. Warriors in Motion program that has been providing outdoor recreation opportunities with wounded veterans for 20+ years.
What have they accomplished so far and what's next?
1. Two Paralympic athletes training at the Adaptive Sports Foundation
2. Renewed partnership with Wounded Warrior Project to serve wounded warriors
3. Creation of a staff position dedicated to fundraising and marketing
4. Upgraded lesson reservation system so wait list can be managed effectively and efficiently during Winter Programs when demand for services is at the highest.
5. Volunteer recruitment revised so we are recruiting volunteers who have the skills needed to meet demand particularly in winter programs
How we listen
Seeking feedback from people served makes programs more responsive and effective. Here’s how this organization is listening.
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How is your organization using feedback from the people you serve?
To identify and remedy poor client service experiences, To identify bright spots and enhance positive service experiences, To make fundamental changes to our programs and/or operations, To inform the development of new programs/projects, To identify where we are less inclusive or equitable across demographic groups, To strengthen relationships with the people we serve, To understand people's needs and how we can help them achieve their goals
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Which of the following feedback practices does your organization routinely carry out?
We collect feedback from the people we serve at least annually, We take steps to get feedback from marginalized or under-represented people, We aim to collect feedback from as many people we serve as possible, We take steps to ensure people feel comfortable being honest with us, We look for patterns in feedback based on demographics (e.g., race, age, gender, etc.), We look for patterns in feedback based on people’s interactions with us (e.g., site, frequency of service, etc.), We engage the people who provide feedback in looking for ways we can improve in response, We act on the feedback we receive, We share the feedback we received with the people we serve, We tell the people who gave us feedback how we acted on their feedback, We ask the people who gave us feedback how well they think we responded
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What challenges does the organization face when collecting feedback?
We don't have any major challenges to collecting feedback
Financials
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Operations
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ADAPTIVE SPORTS FOUNDATION INC
Board of directorsas of 05/20/2024
Vince Passione
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Term: 2017 -
Robert Luckow
Spear, Leeds & Kellogg (Ret.)
Scott Silverman
Michael Fee
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Kevin O'Connor
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Jim Barnes
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Thomas Ryan
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Vince Passione
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Rick McClain
Fiserv
William Lawson
Shoe-Inn
Kevin Sheridan
Mayer Brown LLP
Karen Elder
ASF Parent
Anna Fenimore
ASF Parent
Phillip Hsu
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Stephan Kiratsous
Delphi Financial Group
Laurin Kleiman
Sidley Austin LLP
Brian Lee
Goldman Sachs
Board leadership practices
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Board orientation and education
Does the board conduct a formal orientation for new board members and require all board members to sign a written agreement regarding their roles, responsibilities, and expectations? Yes -
CEO oversight
Has the board conducted a formal, written assessment of the chief executive within the past year ? Yes -
Ethics and transparency
Have the board and senior staff reviewed the conflict-of-interest policy and completed and signed disclosure statements in the past year? Yes -
Board composition
Does the board ensure an inclusive board member recruitment process that results in diversity of thought and leadership? Yes -
Board performance
Has the board conducted a formal, written self-assessment of its performance within the past three years? Not applicable
Organizational demographics
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Leadership
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Equity strategies
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- We review compensation data across the organization (and by staff levels) to identify disparities by race.
- We ask team members to identify racial disparities in their programs and / or portfolios.
- We analyze disaggregated data and root causes of race disparities that impact the organization's programs, portfolios, and the populations served.
- We disaggregate data to adjust programming goals to keep pace with changing needs of the communities we support.
- We employ non-traditional ways of gathering feedback on programs and trainings, which may include interviews, roundtables, and external reviews with/by community stakeholders.
- We disaggregate data by demographics, including race, in every policy and program measured.
- We have long-term strategic plans and measurable goals for creating a culture such that one’s race identity has no influence on how they fare within the organization.
- We use a vetting process to identify vendors and partners that share our commitment to race equity.
- We have a promotion process that anticipates and mitigates implicit and explicit biases about people of color serving in leadership positions.
- We seek individuals from various race backgrounds for board and executive director/CEO positions within our organization.
- We have community representation at the board level, either on the board itself or through a community advisory board.
- We help senior leadership understand how to be inclusive leaders with learning approaches that emphasize reflection, iteration, and adaptability.
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