With mixed emotions, we announce the departure of Cherisse Young as the Adaptive Sports Foundation’s Director of Development. While we will all miss Cherisse, we are glad to see her continue in her commitment to nonprofit work as she joins the development office at Siena College, her alma mater, starting this fall. Building on the […]

by John Iannelli, ASF Deputy Executive Director This past season saw the premier of the ASF Community, a complete mobile platform to manage volunteers and participants.  This mobile app was a major player in allowing us to conduct programming this winter and comply with COVID-19 operational guidelines.    Additional enhancements to the ASF’s Salesforce platform allowed […]

  Nik Walser, a Colorado transplant living in Brooklyn, has been volunteering at the ASF for the past twenty years.  Nik started at the ASF while he was a student at NYU through a program the ASF had with NYU that offered college credit for volunteering.  Twenty years later, Nik is a ASF trainer, member of […]

The past 12 months presented unprecedented challenges for everyone. With so much not happening, we knew our community would need our programs for not only their physical health but also for their spirit. Figuring out how to provide programming to our participants and their families became priority number one for us. Check out how the ASF […]

At the ASF our participants’ accomplishments come in all shapes, sizes and happen on a variety of timelines. Matthew Colella, a four tracker skier with Cerebral Palsy has been skiing with the ASF for over 15 years.  He started as all skiers do, on the beginner slopes.  He began skiing with poles, but it soon […]

by Eileen O’Connor, ASF Parent and Board member When we first brought Erin to the Adaptive Sports Foundation at Windham Mountain, the goal was for her to participate in an outdoor activity that our family loved.  We did not think much beyond that because the fact that someone had volunteered to ski with our special […]

MAITLAND, Fla. (January 12, 2021) – The American Fundraising Foundation (AmFund) has announced 17 Golden Pear Award recipients as part of its expanded support for qualified nonprofit organizations throughout the nation. Over 1,100 organizations applied for these additional funding opportunity grants due to the adverse impact of the pandemic on their fundraising abilities. This is […]

Reposted from USASA.org “I have Autism and so many friends I made through snowboarding helped me overcome Autism” explains twenty-five-year-old USASA Catskill Series member, Zach Elder. At two-years-old Zach Elder was diagnosed with Autism and despite the physical therapy, occupational therapy, and applied behavioral science at six years old he still was non-verbal. Parents Rich […]

Meet Chase Sadowski, ASF skier and shredder   Donate here

Meet Charlie Kleiman – ASF Snowboard Team member