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Hawk’s Skateparks Event Kicks Off Sunday

The sixth annual Tony Hawk: RIDE Presents Stand Up For Skateparks kicks off its two-event 2009 slate on October 11th in Beverly Hills. The anchor event is slated for November 7 in Las Vegas. The event is well-established in Beverly Hills, but 2009 marks the first year the affair will be in Las [...]

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Ryan Sheckler Hosting Fight Night in Anaheim Tonight to Benefit Road 2 Recovery and TACA

Pro skateboarder Ryan Sheckler and his Ryan Scheckler Foundation is hosting the Down For Life: Fight for a Cause tonight in Anaheim. Proceeds from the multi-disciplined fight night will benefit Road 2 Recovery and Talk About Curing Autism. Scheduled to fight include Travis Pastrana, Kenny Bartram, Brian Deegan, Jason Ellis, Kit Cope, Erik [...]

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Paraplegic Ricky James Proves He Can Still Ride in New Life Rolls On PSA

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Life Rolls On Foundation’s second PSA, which debuted December 12, 2008 during NBC Sports’ coverage of the 2008 Ford Ironman World Championship. Paraplegic and Life Rolls On Ambassador Ricky James James is featured attempting a stunt that is a first-ever for a paraplegic on a motocross bike. Life [...]

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Tony Hawk’s Stand Up For Skateparks Event Rakes in Over $1 Million for Foundation

The fifth annual Activision Presents Stand Up For Skateparks, which was held last Sunday in Beverly Hills rasied over $1 million for the Tony Hawk Foundation and its mission to bring free, quality skateparks to low-income communities across the U.S. The one-day action-sports carnival included games, activities, a special acoustic performance by Social Distortion, [...]

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Movember Movement: Action Sports Brand DC Shoes Supporting Prostate Cancer Research

Action sports brand DC Shoes, a leader in performance skateboarding shoes, is supporting Movember for the second-straight year. Movember is an annual charity ‘mo’-vement committed to changing the way men think about, discuss and treat their own health issues by generating awareness and raising money for men’s health. Movember challenges men to grow a [...]

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Hitting 300: Tony Hawk’s Organization Hit a Major Milestone in 2008

The Tony Hawk Foundation hit a milestone this year with the opening of its 300th skatepark. The Wasatch County Skatepark in Heber City, Utah, is a 20,000-square-foot free public park, and features a broad range of terrain types for skaters of all styles to ride, challenge themselves, and enjoy the benefits that skateboarding offers. [...]

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Hawk’s Stand Up For Skateparks’ Inaugural East Coast Event a Success

The Tony Hawk Foundation’s first Stand Up For Skateparks fundraiser in New York earlier this month raised $575,000 to help develop public skateparks across America, including $50,000 for the Manhattan Bridge Skatepark. The event marked the first time Stand Up For Skateparks has been held outside of the Los Angeles area.
this exclusive, family-centric, action-sports [...]

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Stand Up for Skateparks Expands to East Coast

The Tony Hawk Foundation is expanding its annual Activision Presents Stand Up For Skateparks benefit to include an event in Bridgehampton, New York on August 10. The New York event committee includes Tony Hawk, Lance Armstrong, Andre Agassi, among others.
The Stand Up for Skateparks event is the foundation’s exclusive, family-centric, action-sports [...]

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Tony Hawk Foundation Awards Over $250,000 in Grants

The Tony Hawk Foundation has awarded award $251,516 to 29 applicants for Spring 2008 Skatepark Grants. Three projects won the top award of $25,000, each demonstrating the economic and social challenges their youth face, strong local support for a skatepark, success in their previous fundraising efforts, and the involvement of local skaters in pursuing [...]

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Sign for the Times: Macdonald Promotes Safe Place

Skateboarder Andy Macdonald is featured in a PSA for Safe Place, which provides access to immediate help for young people in crisis. Partnering businesses and community buildings that appeal to teens – such as fast food restaurants, convenience stores, fire stations and public buses – display the Safe Place sign, with employees trained [...]

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Stand Up: Tony Hawk’s Event a Major Success

The Tony Hawk Foundation recently held its fourth-annual Tony Hawk’s Proving Ground Stand Up For Skateparks benefit in Beverly Hills. With 1,000 guests in attendance, the Foundation raised over $1-million to further its mission of bringing free, quality public skateparks to low-income communities across the U.S. For the fourth year, Activision, maker of [...]

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