The Season Begins!

Soccer season officially starts today! The Crimson women take on San Diego State while the men test their early season mettle against Stony Brook. The double header takes place this afternoon at Ohiri Field on Harvard's campus in Cambridge, Massachusetts. To find out more about the games and the rest of what promises to be an exciting season, visit the official Harvard athletics webpage at gocrimson.com

But today isn't just the start of another exciting soccer season. The Harvard soccer program is also kicking-off their partnership with the international non-profit Coaches across Continents. Please take a moment to read CaC's first official press release regarding the initiative and explore ways that you can get involved using the beautiful game to support grassroots development around the world.

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Goals4Leaders is an exciting new initiative designed by David Williams '06 to raise funds for Coaches Across Continents. With your help, results can be impressive and will make a huge difference to the people in the communities in which Coaches Across Continents works! The idea is simple - family, friends, fans and businesses sponsor each goal scored by their chosen soccer team across the whole season. The more goals scored, the more money raised! Individuals can also donate a fixed amount if they are worried that the team they are sponsoring will be TOO successful in their goal scoring!

So why are we telling you all of this?! Well, we need your help! There are 2 ways you can get involved:

1) Donate! We already have the Harvard soccer teams who are acting as the pioneers for Goals4Leaders. You can sponsor them per goal, or for a fixed amount. Help motivate them to score as many goals as possible! To do this, go to
Men: http://www.firstgiving.com/harvardsoccerseniors
Women: http://www.firstgiving.com/hwssophomores *
*(These funds will be used for a new program for two orphanges in Uganda 2010 to tackle two social problems that are guns with boys and girls being used as sex slaves)

2) Support your team and generate social change! Register your soccer team so that you can raise funds for every goal that you score! As an extra incentive to score more goals, if you raise enough money there will be an opportunity for you to travel to one of the community programmes in Africa or one of the other countries in which Coaches Across Continents operate and see what your money is directly contributing to! Create your own fundraising page by going to: http://www.firstgiving.com/22655

Please tell all of your friends, family and colleagues about Coaches Across Continents and Goals4Leaders so that we can get as many different soccer teams as we can registered and raising funds! You could also get rival soccer teams to sign up and add some extra rivalry - not just in the game, but in who can raise the most money!

We can't make a difference without you...sign up now!

Thanks in advance,

Aaron

Coaches across Continents


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