AGE UP News & Updates
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People of Color in the Sport of Ultimate
Our brilliant AGE UP participant Shy wrote this piece about POCs in ultimate for her senior high school thesis. Check it out!
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Day 4 of AGE UP’s 10 Year Anniversary Celebration
Read this letter from our board President and Vice President!
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Day 3 of AGE UP’s 10 Year Anniversary Celebration
We’ve raised $15,000 and have four more days to reach $40,000.
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Day 2 of AGE UP’s 10 Year Anniversary Celebration
It’s Day 2 of our 10 Year Anniversary Celebration! Today our theme is a look forward! Over the past several months we’ve been taking stock of where we’ve been, where we are, and setting priorities for our future. We’re excited to share our updated mission, vision, and values in this super sweet video: We’re proud…
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Day 1 of AGE UP’s 10 Year Anniversary Celebration!
Welcome to our 10 Year Anniversary Celebration – A Decade of Dinners! We can’t hangout in person this year so we’re doing an online celebration and fundraising campaign this week. Our goal is to raise $40,000 by Saturday, October 31st! Each day we’ll have content here on our website, our email list, Facebook, and Instagram,…
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Celebrating 10 YEARS of AGE UP!
A Decade of Dinners Hey y’all! This winter marks 10 YEARS OF AGE UP! We wish we could celebrate in person (wear a mask, wash your hands, and social distance!), but in replacement of our annual Family Feast we’ve got four days worth of great stuff coming your way from October 29th-29th. Follow the action via…
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2020 RWJF Sports Award
We won a thing! AGE UP has been selected as a 2020 winner of the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Sports Award! This award recognizes and honors those in sport who display an innovative and collaborative approach to making their communities a healthier place to live. This includes sports teams, athletes, and community-based organizations that use…
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2020 Spring Update from Ari
Hi everyone! Ari here from the AGE UP staff. It’s been a wild 2020 so far, so I wanted to take some time to reflect and update all of you about what we’ve been up to at AGE UP! We can’t ignore the fact that something big has impacted all of us during this time…
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2019 End Of Year Letter From Our Board
Amy and Ayan here, with your end of the year letter from AGE UP. We tried to talk about all the great things AGE UP did this year but instead ended up talking about our cheesy love story as Vice-President and President of the Board, co-hosting Family Feast, and being a part of this community. …
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Gentrification in South Seattle
Check it out This past July, our 35 summer interns worked on five different projects including this one on media & gentrification led by alumni Ronnie Estoque (other projects included: undoing anti-Black racism, mental health & counseling, food & climate change, & local Seattle musicians). The team interviewed Chevas “Chev” Gary, Cleveland High School Staff,…