3D Soccer aims to Raise Awareness and Funds for Area Youth-Focused Nonprofit Organizations!

3D Soccer’s mission is to provide soccer experiences that teach and reinforce the skills and traits that help develop great athletes and outstanding citizens. We also recognize, respect and greatly appreciate all the work that area nonprofit youth-focused organizations do to positively influence young lives. Therefore, the primary purpose of the 3D Sand Soccer Shootout is to enable 3D Soccer to serve as a rainmaker for area youth-focused nonprofit organizations working in Hampton Roads.

The 3D Sand Soccer Shootout will not only provide a great sporting experience for players and their families, but will also draw in members of the community as spectators. Spectators and  beach-goers will use tickets to enjoy the carnival of activities set up at the event (e.g., face painting, climbing wall, bounce house, chair massages, etc,). As a terrific side effect, they will filter funds into participating non-profit organizations.  The more fun they have the more money they raise for each participating organization!!!

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2008 Registered Nonprofit Organizations

STEPS TO SUCCESS - The mission of Steps-2-Success is to strengthen the socio-economic position of youth residing in the Hampton Roads area and abroad. This is accomplished by encouraging and supporting spiritual guidance, personal development, education, and leadership training programs through such programs as the "Start Something Institutes for Middle and High School Students", and the "Young Men of Valor Entrepreneurial Leadership Academy". Additionally, S-2-S will encourage and support in-school neighborhood youth to complete high school, GED programs and post-secondary education.

VIRGINIA POWER SOCCER - Virginia Power Soccer Association is a non-profit organization with the mission to develop, support, encourage, and foster the participation of Virginia’s power wheelchair athletes in the competitive sport of power soccer at the local, regional, national, and international levels. Power soccer is the first competitive team sport designed and developed specifically for power wheelchair users.  Participants include people with quadriplegia, muscular dystrophy, multiple sclerosis, cerebral palsy, head trauma, stroke, and other disabilities.

ORPHAN HELPERS - Dedicated to serving and ministering to the physical, spiritual, educational and emotional needs of orphaned, abused and incarcerated children. They assist in orphanages and detention centers internationally and focus is on children that have been left behind by every element of society including their families, adoption agencies and other orphanages. Orphan Helpers directs mission teams, donated items, and financial resources to the orphans living in government-run centers especially focusing on teachers and programs for orphanages and centers.

COURT APPOINTED SPECIAL ADVOCATE (CASA) - "To give a child a CASA is to give them a voice. To give them a voice is to give them hope. And to give them hope is to give them the world." —Pamela Butler, former foster youth.  In 1977, a Seattle judge conceived the idea of using trained community volunteers to speak for the best interests of abused and neglected children in court. So successful was this program that soon judges across the country began utilizing citizen advocates. The CASA mission is to support and promote court-appointed volunteer advocacy for abused and neglected children so that they can thrive in safe, permanent homes.

VIRGINIA INTERNATIONAL PLAYERS FOOTBALL CLUB (VIP United FC) - VIP UNITED Select's core values center around Family, Fun, Fundamentals, Education and Soccer Excellence. Our mission is to promote youth soccer development in the Hampton area with a blended focus on individual skills and age-appropriate tactical training. This is accomplished in a positive environment where players will have fun when playing at a highly competitive level. VIP UNITED approach to training will allow players to play at the highest levels of youth soccer and prepare them to compete at the high school and college levels.

SAFEHAVEN - Safehaven provides a secure, homelike environment for abused or neglected children from four to 17 years of age, making every effort to meet their physical, emotional and social needs. The children they shelter have been neglected and/or abused. Children are referred to Safehaven by local Departments of Social Services from our surrounding areas including Newport News, Chesapeake, Portsmouth, Poquoson, Williamsburg, Norfolk, Hampton, James City County, York County, Gloucester, and Isle of Wight.They provide a safe place for children to begin the healing process and to educate them about the cycle of child abuse and its patterns.

BAYSTARS FOOTBALL CLUB - Baystars FC hopes to provide and develop the game of soccer for the youth of the Middle Peninsula of Virginia and promote a safe and healthy environment to properly develop the soccer player in skills, sportsmanship and fair play. They provide a positive experience through a highly competitive atmosphere of games and coaching by teaching all aspects of the game of soccer. Baystars FC is committed to developing each player as an individual within a team environment.

DENBIGH HS GIRLS SOCCER - Denbigh High School Girls Varsity and Junior Varsity Soccer Programs.

HAMPTON HS GIRLS SOCCER - Hampton High School Girls Varsity and Junior Varsity Soccer Programs.

TONY'S MARCHING ANGELS - Formerly known as The Angels of Toni Bridgeford Marching Band, this community based, non-profit organization started in 2000 by Antoinette "Toni" Bridgeford. We promote resilience, character development, self-confidence, harmony, organization, commitment, responsibility, dedication, persistence, peace, family strengthening, conflict resolution and both peer and intergenerational relationship building. We promote and teach at risk youth the necessary skills to become a part of a team and become a valued asset to their community. (no website available)