When running a youth event, regardless of what type of event it is, the most important thing you can remember is to make sure the kids have fun.  When the…

Would you have an answer if someone asked the question, “who is your mentor?”  As National Mentoring month draws to a close, I would like to reflect on the great…

Last week the CRSF staff embarked on a weeklong trip to Texas to work with the Texas Alliance Boys & Girls Clubs. The goal of the trip was to introduce the Healthy…

Who was your mentor?  What made them such an uncommon person?  What did you learn from them that you practice as a coach or a mentor? We got some great responses…

 Our country was founded by a group of uncommon people, setting out to do something uncommon in their day: create a system of self-government that was dependent on the will…

Bill Ripken always likes to say, “without a Sr., there wouldn’t be a Jr.—and not just in the biological sense.”  Certainly, without their father, Bill and Cal would not only…

In December, the program team met to plan and dream for 2014.  In the process, we shared our individual goals for the new year—both personal and professional.  It was a…

 This year, will be my first holiday season that I get to spend as part of the Cal Ripken, Sr. Foundation family.  With the New Year around the corner we…