Currently working on local sponsorships and fund raising to defray costs.

Please forward this message to anyone interested in competing and/or reply to NJWBBC@gmail.com (New Jersey Women’s Basketball Cologne)

Thanks in advance for any help.

Sincerely,

Geena

Her greatest achievement, making the Special Olympics a perennial international event, has great resonance for the FGG. In her words at the opening ceremony of the first International Special Olympics at Soldier Field: “The Chicago Special Olympics prove a very fundamental fact, the fact that exceptional children — children with mental retardation — can be exceptional athletes, the fact that through sports they can realize their potential for growth”, we hear a message for all men and women, that whatever their history, whatever their innate ability, through sports they can realize their potential for growth.

Athletes from around Oregon will be joining the harvest for the world in next summer’s big news story supported in part by the financial backings of Team Oregon.

After six months promoting its vision a total of 82 members have joined in support of Team Oregon. About one quarter of these members are athletes planning to compete in the Gay Games. Fundraising still remains the goal as the Board recently added Matthew Kovenz and Erin Yates. With their previous experience in political fundraising and retail sales they will increase fundraising efforts to support the trip of a targeted 100 Oregonian athletes. “The biggest area of opportunity for success is communication,” states Kovenz. Providing the opportunity for Oregonian athletes to compete often resulting in life altering experiences through the Gay Games is key for supporters to realize and therefore support with their donations. On top of the $20 Team Oregon membership the board encourages community members to donate frequent flyer miles to lessen travel expenses.

Read the full article HERE.

“It’s a great city,” Sneyers told the Blade after the rally. “They’ve got great venues, great support from the mayor and the City Council. From all the venues we saw, from the convention center to the universities, they were all wonderful.”

He added that the coalition of D.C. LGBT sports and business groups organizing the city’s bid under the umbrella organization Washington Gaymes, Inc., “knows what it takes” to put on a major sporting event.

“So it’s going to be a very, very difficult choice for us to make in September,” he said.

Read the full article from the Washington Blade HERE

The next day I got some insight into what the delegates are looking for when I chatted with site-selection committee member Roz Quarto.

“We want to see if the city can deliver the venues, if the ‘Bid Book’ is true. Can the venues offered meet the specifications of each sport?” Quarto said as we toured potential Akron facilities. (The “Bid Book” is the 416-page document the Cleveland Synergy Foundation submitted to show its plan for the games.)

Roz Quarto of the Federation of Gay Games.Two other delegates rounded out the site selection committee: Darl Schaaff, from Alaska, and Dennis Sneyers, of Chicago. Quarto, an attorney from New York, was visibly excited by what she had seen so far: “I called my girlfriend and told her, ‘We need to vacation here!’ There is so much to do. I wasn’t expecting this.”

Read the article HERE.