Raven'S Pursuit Inc

“Expenses insurance 656 program a expense impleme 18,830 marketing 1,030 bank service charges 67 total 20,583”

“Raven's pursuit is a 501(c)3 nonprofit organization that organizes, provides and supports educational outreach programs for youth in the piedmont triad region of north carolina.”

“Raven's pursuit believes educating and inspiring youth through functional fitness teaches the value of community, builds confident individuals, and equips them with transferrable skills. To date, raven's pursuit has organized, developed and provided a physical education program for hope academy, a greensboro, nc private, not-for-profit elementary and middle school working with disadvantaged youth. Raven's pursuit guided the development and writing of a functional fitness curriculum that aligns both with the north carolina department of public instruction physical education standards for middle school students as well as the movements that are fundamental to crossfit kids programming. The typical testing schedule for raven's pursuit's hope academy functional fitness program was based on a fall semester pre-test followed by winter and spring post-testing of 6 movements - 4 core movements for the max number of reps in 1 minute (squats, pushups, sit-ups, burpees) and 2 cardio movements (max jump rope jumps in 1 minute and the pacer test - maximum 50m full trip minutes). Because school schedules both globally and locally were disrupted due to the global coronavirus pandemic, testing was disrupted as well. For school year 19-20, the school year schedule was disrupted as hope academy shifted to an online learning platform early in the spring semester. Because of this shift to online learning, no post-test data could be collected. For the school year 20-21, the school year began with a hybrid schedule in which girls were in school 2 days per week and boys were in school 2 different days per week and all students were online 1 day per week. This irregularity of scheduling was not conducive to replicating the fitness testing as had been done previously. During the midpoint of the spring semester 2021, students returned to school in person. Because of the start of the school year disrupted as it was, no meaningful pre-test data could be collected and the decision to postpone testing to the fall of 2021 was made. The most recently completed testing, may of 2019, showed improvements or maintenance of previous performance across all areas with the single exception of a slight decrease for the burpee movement. Significant improvements occurred for the movements of pushups and jump rope reps. (a pdf with graphical data through sept. 2019 is attached). Both raven's pursuit and hope academy hope to resume testing with the start of the upcoming academic year so that longitudinal tracking of the performance of participants, especially so the performance of the new 3rd and 4th grade participants may be tracked. The academic year 20-21 began at hope academy with the addition of 3rd and 4th grade students to the 5th, 6th, and 7th, and 8th grade students who were previous program participants. The hope academy functional fitness curriculum was updated and aligned to the north carolina department of public instruction curriculum standards for grades 3 and 4. _82_ total students 3rd - 11 4th - 11 5th - 5 6th - 19 7th - 18 8th - 18 95% of funding raised through the end of the academic year 2020 was directed to coaching fees. Raven's pursuit has responded to meet the needs of the students of hope academy by updating curricular goals to include 3rd and 4th graders and has entered into a transition phase in which it is exploring new opportunities for which this program might be replicated on a larger scale.”