Doc Wayne Awarded a 2013 Grant by the Lenny Zakim Fund

David Cohen, Doc Wayne Executive Director, Rebekah Roulier, Doc Wayne General Manger, Joe Leavey, Communities for People President

On Monday, February 25th, The Doc Wayne Athletic League (Doc Wayne) was awarded a grant by The Lenny Zakim Fund and was honored together with other grantees at an Awards Ceremony held at the Courtyard Marriott Tremont, in Boston.

• Doc Wayne was one of over 55 grassroots, community based organizations that received a grant from The Lenny Zakim Fund at the Awards Ceremony. Grantees include many youth serving organizations and organizations working for social justice in diverse ways.
• The mission of Doc Wayne is to offer at-risk youth an innovative sports-based group therapy experience stressing positive youth development. Doc Wayne’s trauma sensitive therapeutic sports program is designed to achieve four related objectives: (1) promoting youth participants’ personal development, (2) improving their capacity for pro-social relationships, (3) maximizing their capacity for inclusion and participation in therapy and school and (4) becoming an experience that participants can apply to all aspects of their lives on and off the field.
• Doc Wayne is honored to receive a grant from The Lenny Zakim Fund. “Our ultimate goal is to help young people find their positive path in life utilizing sport as a hook and we are grateful to have earned this support,” said David Cohen, Doc Wayne’s Executive Director.

About Doc Wayne

Doc Wayne is a Boston, MA non-profit that utilizes sport and its do the good sports-based therapeutic curriculum, derived from Dialectical Behavior Therapy and The ARC Framework to connect with at-risk youth who have faced many challenges in their young lives.   Through their program, youth learn to perceive the world as less threatening and their ability to interact with their environment becomes more empowered and they gain greater self-esteem.

About Lenny Zakim and The Lenny Zakim Fund

Lenny Zakim believed that one person can change the world. As the executive director of the New England Region of the Anti-Defamation League, he fought tirelessly to put an end to prejudice, civil rights violations, anti-Semitism, racism and bigotry of all kinds. After Lenny was diagnosed in 1995 with multiple myeloma, he created, with the help of friends and supporters, a philanthropic organization that would transform his vision of social justice into an enduring legacy: The Lenny Zakim Fund.

The mission of The Lenny Zakim Fund is to identify, listen to, support and connect grassroots community organizations and programs operating “below the radar screen” of many large charitable groups and government grants. The Lenny Zakim Fund provides assistance to those who demonstrate the will and potential to make a difference but lack the necessary resources.

Contact:

Jude Goldman, Executive Director, The Lenny Zakim Fund, jgoldman@thelennyzakimfund.org

617-406-6036 www.thelennyzakimfund.org

David S. Cohen, Executive Director, Doc Wayne Athletic League, dcohen@docwayne.org, 617-801-4601, http://www.docwayne.org