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Our mission is to provide a “boost” to help enrich the lives of others in our community.

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Congratulations to Alyssa from Fairport High School!
She is the winner of the 1st annual Vertical Boost Next Steps Scholarship.
This fall, Alyssa will be majoring in Psychology at Nazareth University. Good luck!

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We are helping our great friends at @PrimetimeBall_ with a Winter Wear Drive!

Proceeds will benefit the Sickle Cell Unit at Golisano Children's Hospital, local schools, & homeless centers that house kids.

Our donation box is located at the @PerintonRec.

@TPerinton @URMed_GCH

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We recently stopped by to check in on a summer camp at Evergreen East. It was great to see the kids enjoying the new goal! @TPerinton, @FairportRotary

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We started our 2025 sneaker distributions last week at a "Community Back-to-School Supplies Event" at Evergreen East in Fairport. Through the kindness of our donors & partners, many kids will now be starting school with a brand new pair of shoes or cleats for their fall sports!

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⚽We had a fantastic ribbon-cutting ceremony for the new soccer goal at Evergreen East's Community Event! Kids enjoyed contests, received new soccer balls, & we raffled off cleats & jerseys. Huge thanks to everyone who made it possible. (@FairportRotary, @TPerinton, @PerintonRec)

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Happy New Year! We are excited to announce that we have secured funding for a project to put in a soccer goal at the Evergreen East Apartments in Fairport. Thank you to our great partners at the Fairport Rotary. We are planning to debut the goal this Spring!

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Thank you to all who donated to our Winter Wear & Toy Drive. We received many toys, coats, hats, gloves, snow pants, etc! The donations are now with @PrimetimeBall_ who will get them to those in need.
Special thanks to the @PerintonRec & @fairport_high for your support!

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Once again we are helping our great friends at
@PrimetimeBall_ with their Winter Wear and Toy Drive! We also have a box at Fairport High School near the Athletic Entrance for FHS faculty and students. Special thanks to the @fairport_high for your support!
@URMed_GCH @FCSDtweets

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Once again we are helping our great friends at
@PrimetimeBall_ with their Winter Wear and Toy Drive! Our public donation box is located in the main lobby of the Perinton Community Center. Special thanks to the @PerintonRec for your support!
@TPerinton @URMed_GCH @FCSDtweets

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We started our sneaker distributions at a "Community Back-to-School Event" at Evergreen East in Fairport. Through the kindness of our donors & partners, many kids can now start school with a nice pair of shoes, cleats for their fall sports, and/or sneakers for hoops season!

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We have wrapped up our 3rd Annual Summer Sneaker Drive. Thank you so much to all who donated! Special thanks to our wonderful partners for helping make this all possible! Thank you @Coach_Leasure44, @URCoachFlo, @PerintonRec, @tperinton, and the Perinton Square @McDonalds!

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Our 3rd Annual Summer Sneaker Drive is in its 2nd week. We have a donation box at @URMensHoops for @URCoachFlo's basketball campers & a public donation box in the lobby of the @PerintonRec. All donations will benefit people in our local community. Thank you to these great hosts!

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This week we kicked off our 3rd Annual Summer Sneaker Drive. We are working with area basketball camps and have a public donation box in the lobby of the Perinton Recreation Center (@PerintonRec). All donations will benefit people in our local community.

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We were at @TriCountySC this weekend looking for great sportsmanship. After watching, we decided to award KayCee from Wayne, Ashlyn from Fury, and Lukas and Beckham from the Williamson Lakers. Congrats to these players who showed heart, kindness, & leadership during their games!

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Thanks to all who helped support our 2nd Annual Book Drive to benefit the @ref_rochester. Many generous people kindly donated 618 books!
These books will positively impact the lives of kids in our community!
Special thanks to @PerintonRec & @japrincipal for going above & beyond!

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Friendly reminder: Our Book Drive to support the @ref_rochester will end this Friday (4/19). We have a donation box at the Perinton Rec Center (@perintonrec) for the public and another at Jefferson Ave School for students/parents/faculty. Thx!
@TPerinton @japrincipal @FCSDtweets

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We are again partnering with @ref_rochester for a book drive to support their Give Back, Give Books program. We have a donation box at the @PerintonRec for the public and another at the Jefferson Ave Elementary School for Fairport. The drive will run through April 19th.

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It was such an honor to speak at the @FairportRotary meeting this past Monday.
Thanks to Becky Wilson & President Tom Wolanski for letting us share our story and for the shoe donations. We are so appreciative and will make sure the donations go to where they can help the most.

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@PrimetimeBall_ @FCSDtweets @News_8 @FCSDSports @fairport_high Thank you for putting this award show together and making it so special for the honorees and our families. It was a wonderful experience to be honored alongside so many amazing athletes from Section V!

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Thank you to @News_8 and @PrimetimeBall_ for putting this award show together and making it so special for the honorees and their families!
Tune in @news8_wroc this Friday at 7pm, and again Christmas morning at 10am, to see this incredible show. (2/2)