A skate boarder empowers kids, a green musician is honored
and a movie star spits for a good cause. Here are this week’s most inspirational pop culture moments.
Tony
Hawk: Skate Parks Empower Kids
Skateboarder extraordinaire Tony Hawk sat down with the good folks at Tonic this week to talk about his charitable organization and how he helps empower kids in all kinds of neighborhoods nationwide. The Tony Hawk Foundation has helped to build close to 500 skate parks in almost all 50 states and has awarded almost $4 million in grants.
Skateboarder extraordinaire Tony Hawk sat down with the good folks at Tonic this week to talk about his charitable organization and how he helps empower kids in all kinds of neighborhoods nationwide. The Tony Hawk Foundation has helped to build close to 500 skate parks in almost all 50 states and has awarded almost $4 million in grants.
Hawk does not go out on the prowl in search of places to
build the parks, instead he finds groups who have already started down the rode
of getting a project going and brings in more
kids to see the park through to fruition. He stated, "My foundation is set up
to empower the groups that have already started the process... We'd much rather
have them feel like they were part of the process or that they're the ones who
did it and we're just endorsing it."
He continued, "We see the kids feeling a sense of empowerment because they had something to do with getting it built. Those are the ones that are most inspiring, when I got to a skate park opening and I see how elated they are that they feel like they were a part of the process."
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