ILRSBS Home Run Derby to Benefit the SEED Project

The ILR Sports Business Society will be hosting a Charity Wiffle Ball Tournament that will take place on Monday, April 28st from 3:30-6:00pm in the Arts Quad. Proceeds from the event will benefit SEEDS (Sports for Economic and Educational Development in Senegal). Please contact Alex Smith at aws77@cornell.edu to register. More information is also available on Facebook.

The event will run from 3:30 PM to 6:30 PM. Winners in both the male and female division will receive $20 gift certificates to Collegetown Bagels. Groups can reserve time slots if desired to ensure members can bat consecutively.

The ILR Sports Business Society has chosen the SEED Project to be the organization to benefit from the club's Charity Wiffle Ball Tournament because it is an extremely worthwhile and deserving beneficiary of ILRSBS's social impact activities. This is the second consecutive year SBS has worked to raise money on behalf of SEEDS.  Since its founding in 1998, the SEED Project has worked to provide educational opportunities through the use of sports. The SEED Project is the vision of founder Amadou Gallo Fall, who used basketball to gain access to a college education. Today, the foundation describes its mission as:

The SEED Project develops responsible, thoughtful, and educated leaders capable of contributing to the positive transformation of their communities, country and continent.

With this, the organization works to accomplish these goals largely through the operation of SEEDS Academy, a college-preparatory boarding school in Thies, Senegal. The academy provides free tuition, room, board, and meal plans to some 30 student-athletes. SEEDS Academy further provides Senegalese boys with a year-round, rigorous academic, athletic and leadership development curriculum. More than 20 alumni have gone on to academic and athletic pursuits beyond the academy. Because of the foundation's success and visibility SEEDS was featured in ESPN Films' "Elevate" (trailer below).

More information is available on the SEEDS website and on their Facebook page. The organization can be contacted at info@seedproject.com.