TopSpin is a diverse group of professionals who have come together to support a group of exceptional nonprofits and young people.
The recipe is simple: we leverage our various business contacts, stage some blow out ping pong tournaments and industry gatherings and raise much needed loot and awareness!
We look forward to adding more nonprofits, additional cites and further growing the TopSpin community!
Many students from low-income communities are struggling. Essential programming is being cut, and students are entering high school unable to read at the appropriate grade level. As the world evolves toward a more technologically advanced future, Americans overall are losing competitive ground in S.T.E.M. (Science, Technology, Engineering, Mathematics). Also while the dropout rate is steadily decreasing, its representation per ethnicity remains disproportionate—reaching as high as 46% in some communities.
At the heart of TopSpin is a belief in the power of community and a little friendly competition. And while there are individual winners of the ping pong competitions, we all win with our collective efforts in raising critical funds for some amazing nonprofits and their work in under-resourced communities.
"The United States ranks 24th in math and science scores out of 33 countries that make the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development. Moving up to 19th, so that the Average score matched the O.E.C.D. average, would add 1.7 percent to the nation's gross domestic product over the next 35 years. Which could lead to roughly 900 billion in higher government revenue."
(Lynch, Robert. "The Economic and Fiscal Consequences of Improving U.S. Educational Outcomes". Washington Center for Equitable Growth")
"Only one in 20 Americans age 25 - 34 surpassed the educational level of their parents. For the 20 wealthiest O.E.C.D. nations that average was one in four."
(Cohen, Patricia. "Closing Education Gap Will Lift Economy, a Study Finds.")
"Our highest poverty districts spend 15.6 percent less than our lowest poverty districts in state and local funds."
(Arnie Duncan, U.S. Secretary of Education)