Mad Engine recently committed to giving away ONE MILLION fabric masks to essential workers and non-profit organizations. LRG teamed up with them to do a Drive Up Masks Giveaway in their local community. Families that needed masks were able to drive up and pick up a dozen masks and hand sanitizers. Underground Inventive Overground Effective.
The Tony Hawk Foundation Is Now THE SKATEPARK PROJECT
The Tony Hawk Foundation has announced a change in name, but not in focus. Now known as The Skatepark Project, the organization continues its award-winning work to support community skatepark projects across the U.S., and skatepark-based programming internationally.
Its mission is to help underserved communities create safe and inclusive public skateparks for youth. The Skatepark Project envisions thriving, healthy and sustainable communities throughout the United States in which young people have equitable access to safe outdoor spaces for creative expression, physical activity and a sense of belonging.
Head to www.skatepark.org to learn more about how to support public skateparks through The Skatepark Project or get help with your local public skatepark advocacy project.
Andale’s No Hate We Skate!
No Hate We Skate! A Celebration of the LGBTQ+ Community! We share an identity, culture and experience as skaters. We are a community based on self expression and are proud to promote equality for all races, genders, an sexual identities.
GFL Series Presented by Marinela at Tampa – Special Social Distancing Edition
A special social distancing edition of the Grind For Life Series Presented by Marinela went down last weekend at The Boardr HQ in Tampa.
Ish Cepeda & Ronnie Kessner Keep It Rolling
Ronnie Kessner and Ish Cepeda with a little spring cleaning to collect some used gear donations for Keep It Rolling.
If you have used gear collecting dust at your house, gather it up, then drop it in your local shop’s Keep It Rolling collection box when it’s safe.
Your shop decides what organization or person it gets passed on.
REgrowth – Dwindle Distribution
To celebrate Mother Nature Dwindle Distribution is officially launching their REgrowth program with all the deck brands. REgrowth is Dwindle’s way of reducing carbon footprint and making skateboarding more sustainable. For every tree they use to make skateboards, Dwindle plants 3+!
Nora Vasconcellos Donates ENTIRE Product Pillage To WHO?! | KRUX TRUCKS
Nora Vasconcellos rolled thru HQ with friends Nicole Hause and Mimi Knoop to cop some of the Holy-est Trucks in the world, and a ton of other cool stuff! Nora’s Product Pillage went to Ryan Lay’s non-profit Skate After School in Arizona. Krux wants to thank all of the volunteers at SAS for their work with the kids in Arizona! Check out Skate After School for more info!
etnies – Buy A Shoe, Donate A Shoe
For etnies, it is a tradition to celebrate Good Friday on Skid Row giving shoes to the homeless during the Los Angeles Mission Easter Event, which is cancelled this year. However, that is not stopping the company from continuing with their giving tradition to the city’s most vulnerable.
For the past two decades, etnies has collectively donated tens of thousands of shoes. This year, the brand is extending the opportunity to its loyal fans to help the brand reach an all-time total goal of 50,000 shoes to those in need through the giveback program. For every pair of shoes sold on the etnies site from Thursday, April 9 through Sunday, April 12, 2020, the brand will donate an additional pair of shoes to the homeless.
“Doing something meaningful and purposeful for the homeless community has always been very important to me,” said Pierre Andre Senizergues, CEO of etnies. “It means even more right now, knowing the heightened state of vulnerability so many people are living in as the Covid-19 crisis continues. Providing shoes to them is not only a necessity but a symbol of the kindness and concern we feel for the homeless population each day.”
etnies has been giving shoes to the homeless though the Los Angeles Mission since 1998. The Los Angeles Mission is a nonprofit, privately supported organization that serves the immediate and long-term needs of the homeless.
Grind For Life Series Presented by Marinela at Zephyrhills, Florida
The GFL Series is a US national series of street and bowl contests that leads to the Annual Awards at the end of the year in Tampa. Check the schedule for 2020 HERE!
Skaters Keeping It Rolling : Jamestown Community Center
Phil McCormick and The Jamestown Community Center provide youth in the Mission District of San Francisco a place to skateboard, have fun and be creative in a safe environment. Their organization and others like it rely exclusively on donations of skate gear to provide kids the opportunity to skate.
Donations from skaters and skateshops can help keep these organizations going or create new ones in places they don’t yet exist.
‘Keep It Rolling’ collection boxes are in skate shops now to help pass used gear onto organizations like these and other people who can use it.
Skate ‘Em – Pass ‘Em On
You don’t need trucks with supernatural powers to Keep It Rolling. Skate ’em and pass ’em on. Be on the lookout for the new Keep It Rolling boxes in your local shop now. Skate shops will be collecting used gear and passing it on to organizations or people who can use them. Done is not Done. Let’s Keep It Rolling.
DONE IS NOT DONE – KEEP IT ROLLING
Always listen to Frank. When a deck is ‘done’ for you it may not be done for someone else. If you have used decks, trucks or wheels that are still skateable, be on the lookout for the new Keep It Rolling collection boxes at your local shop, so they can be passed on to someone who can use them. Check out more information HERE.