USA Hockey and Responsible Sports monthly February update of what’s new

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Your turn to help your league earn a $2,500 grant!
New youth hockey survey tool: Responsible Sports Season Evaluation
Five hockey associations join the hall of fame
Responsible Sports Resources

**Your turn to help your league earn a $2,500 grant! **

The Liberty Mutual Responsible Sports Community Grants are almost here! Registration is now open for the spring 2010 period.

To get started go to ResponsibleSports.com/Grant to search to see if your organization is registered.

Want a head start? Review the Responsible Sports Parenting or Coaching coursework and pass the brief review quiz to earn your point.  We will email you at the beginning of March to remind you to come back and give your point to your favorite youth hockey organization. The organizations with the most points at the end of the grant period win!

Find your organization and get started at ResponsibleSports.com/Grant today!

**New youth hockey survey tool: Responsible Sports Season Evaluation**

The Responsible Sports Season Evaluation Tool™, powered by the youth sport experts from Positive Coaching Alliance – an easy-to-use, online survey tool designed to help leagues and teams measure season-over-season improvement and allow you, the parents, to give valuable feedback to your league.

• Youth Hockey Foundation of Austin (TX)
• Duxbury Youth Hockey (MA)
• Glenwood Springs Youth Hockey Association (CO)
• Cape Fear Youth Hockey Association (NC)
• North Branch Area Hockey Association (MN)                                                                                                        

North Branch Area Hockey Association competed and earned a grant in the small division with less than 200 players.  North Branch’s administrator explains how they will use the grant money “NBAHA plans on using the funds to assist in our effort to build an indoor ice arena in our school district.  Our skaters currently travel 20+ miles to practice and are looking forward to having an arena to call home.”

They were able to earn the grant by using the Community Grant hockey flier to pass out at practices, sent emails to team parents, and also reached out to friends, family, and coworkers to help in their grant efforts. They even used Facebook as a way to ask for support!

Want to get in on the action?  Go to ResponsibleSports.com/Grant for your chance to earn a $2,500 grant! We’ll let you know when it’s time to rally your community to win!