Sustaining Our Momentum
Sports-based youth development programs like ours play a significant role in fostering the social and emotional skills necessary to succeed in school, careers and life.
Through your support, Momentum has been able to provide programming in golf, workforce development, academic and career readiness, and financial literacy for underserved youth populations in New York City and Westchester County.
We hope that you’re as proud of our students as we are.
In January, Alexander Ciriaco will enter Binghamton University, where he plans to study economics and finance. For the last three summers, Ciriaco was in our Quaker Ridge Golf Club Fellowship Program, where he blossomed into a young man and citizen of the world. He is heading to college armed with a range of skills and contacts that will ensure his future growth and success.
“Through the program, I learned much about golf, tennis, the world of business, and most noticeably, myself,” he said in an essay about his experiences in the program.
Our students from Eagle Academy who are participating in America’s Water Education Program, funded by the National Science Foundation, are doing some important research in data science and water security.
With Eagle Academy high school faculty, students are researching topics such as Building Student Autonomy in Understanding Climate and Water Concerns through Governmental Data Platforms and encouraging middle school and high school students to pursue career pathways in data science and water security.
This December, students from the program attended the American Geological Union’s annual conference in San Francisco, where 25,000 attendees from over 100 countries convened to share research and network.
In 2024, we will continue this important work and will help new partners, such as DREAM Charter High School in the Bronx, bring the game of golf to hundreds of students. In Harlem, we’re going to relaunch the high school golf program at Eagle Academy.
Yes, we’re ambitious, but we can’t do it alone. Your support will help us grow and sustain our work, which is designed to address some of the most pressing problems facing our world, from climate change to water security to closing the racial wealth gap.
Happy Holidays,
Farrell Evans, Sam Weiss and Bill Holmes
Momentum Golf and Education Founders