KickZone eNewsletter ~ April 27th Edition

Greetings NENSA Community!

This week has brought us a second wonderful MATCHING GIFT opportunity to finish out our Annual April Fund Drive . We are ending this April Fund Drive with a “Nudge a Friend” week, meaning if you get a friend, fellow skier or family member to donate this week, the Matching Gift Donor will double that friends gift. (Example, if they donate $100 the anonymous donor will add $200 to that donation, for a total of $300 to NENSA) . All they need to do is write “referred by a friend (your name)” in the comments section at check out, then our Matching Donor will not just match, but will double that gift to our NENSA fund drive! And there is still more ~ if you make a donation this week, or have already donated to the April Fund Drive earlier this month, and nudge a friend to also donate this week, your donation made earlier this month, or this week, will also be DOUBLED!! WOW!!

This means the potential for two times the DOUBLE DOUBLE impact for NENSA and our programing. Please give as generously as you can, AND tell your friends and family to do so too , so we can take advantage of this wonderful doubling Matching Gift opportunity (up to 5k), and help us end the April Fund Drive with our goal of 50k being met and the funding in place to kick off another great year of NENSA programing!

This is also the final days for getting back your Bid Sheets for hosting Eastern Cup, Zak Cups, Marathons and U16 & EHS! Click HERE for the link to fill out the google form. Bids are being accepted until May 1st.

The Annual NENSA Spring Board meeting is being held this weekend in Hanover NH. Click on the calendar of events below to see the full meeting schedule ~ all NENSA members are welcome to attend.

Speaking of calendar - check out the jam packed summer calendar below of camps ~ there is something for everyone!

And finally, as we wrap up the 2017-18 ski season and plan for the the 2018-19 season, we would like to THANK all our wonderful NENSA Sponsors ~ Associate, Contributing, Supporting, and Official Supplier levels, all featured below. Your support and sponsorship helps NENSA be the best it can be ~ THANK YOU!!

Best,

Amie

Amie W. Smith

Executive Director

New England Nordic Ski Association

Amie@nensa.net

www.NENSA.net

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NENSA News from the Field

Highlights and Notes from NENSA and the Nordic World

NENSA's Annual April Fund Drive is in its FINAL Days!

Please support NENSA as Generously as you can!

Here is some of what we do:

Coaches & TD education and symposiums
Bill Koch League
Eastern Cup racing
Zak Cup Masters & Club Championships
Marathons Series
New England BKL Festival
U16 Championships
Eastern High School Championships
NENSA Elite & Development Teams
New England Junior National Team
Eastern REG Camp
Nordic Rocks programing
Event Organizers trainings
Women’s Day
Roller ski race series
Supporting Clubs
www.NENSA.net as a resource for all things New England Nordic

All of these wonderful programs are run by NENSA, and the NENSA staff. Without NENSA, these programs for all ages, and top notch racing in New England would not exist. Many of our USST members, and medal winners on the World Cup, Olympic, World Championships, World Juniors, Supertours, US Senior and Junior Nationals, were all former Bill Koch skiers, who got their start in our local clubs, and/or are still training with New England based NENSA clubs today.

But NENSA is much more than these great results ~ it is a family enjoying the Bill Koch Festival together, it is a group of friends attending Woman's Day, is it juniors spending time with their friends at ski practice, and BKL'ers playing games and learning a sport that will stay with them for life, it is coaches learning new skills at our NENSA trainings, and it is masters having fun with their friends and teammates racing at Zak Cups and Marathons all winter long.

To keep NENSA running, and all these great events you know and love running, Please give as generously as you can -- every single donation counts!