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 November 2010

Foundation IX News

 

 

Foundation IX joins Ann Bancroft Foundation

to further enhance opportunities for girls

 

 We are excited to announce a new home for the Foundation IX Let Me Play grants program. After nearly five years of building the base of Foundation IX and serving over 180 girls in Minnesota to participate in sports and fitness activities, we found that in order to truly grow our impact on girls in Minnesota and reach greater numbers of girls in need, we wanted to team up with an organization with a tremendous mission, history, phenomenal leadership and growth potential.  On behalf of the board of Foundation IX, I am extremely pleased to announce that we have found that home in the Ann Bancroft Foundation (ABF).  Several years ago, I had the privilege to serve on both the Awards Committee and the Micro-Grant Committee of ABF.  At that moment, I fell in love with the mission of the organization, the passion of the board and volunteers and was extremely inspired by the leadership of their founder and leader, Ann Bancroft. As the Founder of Foundation IX, I am deeply honored and beyond excited with the prospects of the Ann Bancroft Foundation assuming the Let Me Play grant program and I am more than confident in the outlook to come.  If you have ever expressed your support of Foundation IX in the past, I ask you to turn your attention now to the Ann Bancroft Foundation as your new home for supporting girls in Minnesota to participate in sports and fitness activities.   www.annbancroftfoundation.org

 

~Shelly Boyum-Breen

Founder, Foundation IX

June 2010

 

Foundation IX has helped more girls play sports and so have you!  Recently, Foundation IX awarded Let Me Play grants to 26 girls from across the state of Minnesota.  The average age of grant recipients was 12 and the average grant amount was $223.  For some girls, it was needed support to attend summer basketball or swim camp. For other girls it was used to purchase softball cleats and a mitt or their soccer uniform.  Recipients covered every corner of the state, from Isanti to Faribault and S. St. Paul to Ogilvie.  To date, Foundation IX has awarded 165 grants to girls in Minnesota totaling nearly $60,000!

 

 

 

Thank you to the Minnesota RollerGirls and their fans!
Foundation IX was especially proud this year of the sponsorship of the Minnesota RollerGirls.  The volunteerism, fundraising and constant supported not only helped to promote Foundation IX grants for girls but also resulted in a contribution to Foundation IX over $8,000!  Thank you Minnesota RollerGirls and fans!

 

 

MMIC Technology Contributes to Foundation IX!                                                                     A Special thanks to the MMIC Give Group, Kari Lidstone and Trish Lugtu for the generous employee contribution of $3,000 to Foundation IX!

 

 

 

 

 


 
May 2009
27 grants given to Minnesota Girls totaling nearly $10,000! Since 2007, Foundation IX has granted nearly $40,000 to 125 Minnesota Girls.
 
 
January 29, 2009
The Minnesota Women's Consortium recognized Foundation IX Founder and President, Shelly Boyum-Breen as one of 10 honorees at their Celebration 29 event.

The event focused on honoring excellence in education for women and girls. Boyum-Breen was honored for her work in the creation of Foundation IX and the impact the organization has made on Minnesota girls.

 

Minnesota Monthly Best of the Twin Cities Issue | October 2008
October 2008
Minnesota Monthly Names Foundation IX Best Philanthropist Best Of Twin Cities

Take Jackie Joyner-Kersee's basketball skills, Bill Gates's business chops, and Santa's devotion to giving, and you'll approximate the whirlwind that is Shelly Boyum-Breen. In 2006, the erstwhile Augsburg basketball coach started Foundation IX, a nonprofit helping Minnesota girls afford the equipment and registration they need to compete in sports. More than 350 applied for grants last year and Boyum-Breen could only help 68. Yet by securing major sponsors, she's moving toward not only supplying more skates and uniforms for female athletes, but perhaps even college tuition.

 

Liberian Kickball Team | These girls received a grant from Foundation IX to purchase team t-shirts and cover the participation fees.
Fall 2008
25 grants given to Minnesota Girls totaling nearly $10,000! Since 2007, Foundation IX has granted nearly $30,000 to 98 Minnesota Girls.

We are giving girls more than money. Through grants for participation fees and equipment costs in sport and organized fitness activities we give girls the opportunity for personal growth they may not have been able to realize otherwise.

 

Pictured: (Thunder, Beckham, LA Galaxy and Foundation IX representative Shelly Boyum-Breen with Let Me Play Grant recipient Kristin Thompson)
Spring 2008
Minnesota Thunder Chose Foundation IX as Beneficiary of Match-Up with David Beckham and L.A. Galaxy!
 
 
February 2008
Foundation IX Teams Up with the Minnesota Roller Girls to Raise Funds and Awareness!
 
 
December 2007
Foundation IX Honored by The Minnesota Women's Press as a 2007 Changemaker!
 

Event coordinators include Patti Ericson, Kris Boike, Joni Lindberg, Shelly Boyum-Breen, Sheri Aukema, Kris Peterson and Anne Bordwell.
November 2007
Hundreds of Friends and Family of Renae Gustafson and Jennifer Keesey, Killed in an Auto Accident in April, Raise Funds in their Honor for Foundation IX.
* FACT *
In 1998, only 5.7% of foundation budgets went
to causes earmarked for women and girls
Time, May 17, 1999