COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT GRANT RECIPIENTS ANNOUNCED
U.S. Figure Skating announced in July the recipients of the 2015–16
U.S. Figure Skating Community Development Grants. Six member clubs and Basic Skills programs have been awarded $2,000 each for the purpose of developing community-based programs and events designed to attract, involve and inspire new generations of figure skaters. A seven-member selection committee reviewed 28 applications and
awarded grants to those clubs and programs that were most effectively able to demonstrate how they would use the award to develop their initiatives. Te recipients of the grants are: Brooklyn Ice (Brooklyn, New York),
Friends of Fort Dupont Ice Arena (Washington, D.C.), Te Friends of the Kelly Rink (Jamaica Plain, Massachusetts), Glenwood Figure Skating Club (Flossmoor, Illinois), Te Ice Skating Academy (Atkinson, New Hamp- shire), and Rolling Meadows Park District (Rolling Meadows, Illinois). Te grants will be used in the following ways:
t Brooklyn Ice will expand its after-school figure skating program to include a synchronized skating program, a community ice show, the opportunity for participants to see skating shows and competitions, and a lesson/performance series with guest skaters from Ice Teatre of New York.
t Te Glenwood Figure Skating Club will bring high school skating to the south suburbs of Chicago by creating a program that encourages high school and eighth-grade students to form a team and participate in U.S. Figure Skating high school competitions.
20 new pairs of rental skates to its collection for participant use.
t Friends of Fort Dupont Ice Arena will build on the success of its KOI P.L.U.S. (Kids On Ice – Positive Living Using Skating) program by expanding its synchronized skating and advanced figure skating offer- ings to more participants.
t Te Friends of the Kelly Rink will increase the number of scholarships offered to community members in its learn-to-skate program and add
t Te Ice Skating Academy will provide free skate rental with the pur- chase of a session package or walk-on fee to low-income participants and community members.
t Rolling Meadows Park District will grow the number of high school-affiliated skating clubs in Illinois by establishing figure skat- ing as a club sport at Rolling Meadows High School, branching out to other area schools and hosting a high school team competition in conjunction with the Chicago Figure Skating Club.
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