This month was my turn to select one of my sites to do a spotlight on.  I couldn’t think of anyone better to do a spotlight on than Boys &…

Each June, we celebrate skinned knees and fishing trips.  We celebrate baseball games and soccer matches.  We celebrate the kings of early morning day-care drop off and the stay-at-home laundry…

Seems like we blinked and we are already into our second session of Cal Ripken, Sr. Foundation Summer Camp!  We’ll share more highlights later, but in the meantime, you can…

Icebreakers are a great tool for people to get more comfortable with one another.  That starts with learning names.  We believe in making it fun, and this icebreaker does just…

Icebreakers are a great tool for people to get more comfortable with one another. In group settings, it is especially hard for kids to open up to one another. We…

While the Badges for Baseball program uses baseball as the initial hook to get kids to participate, the program doesn’t have to be baseball exclusive. The lessons taught in the HCHC curriculum…

I can remember it like it was yesterday: our CRSF program staff had just completed a clinic with youth from the MLB Reviving Baseball in Inner Cities (RBI) program and…

This week is National Volunteer Week.  Although some of us are paid staff at our organizations, most if not all of us have been volunteers at some point.  As youth-serving…

While the Badges for Baseball program uses baseball as the initial hook to get kids to participate, the program doesn’t have to be baseball exclusive. The lessons taught in the HCHC curriculum…