<img src="https://s3.amazonaws.com/jerseywatch-wysiwyg-files/production%2FPage%2F11758%2F1706481821263-KSA+FeeAssistance+recipients++%287%29.JPG" style="width: 733px;" class="fr-fic fr-dib">KSA Fee-assistance cheques were presented to representatives of the following 10 local minor sports groups in support of their 2022 registrations: KW House League Baseball, Waterloo Regional Boxing, KW Gymnastics, Stanley Park Optimist Ball, KW Youth Basketball, Pride Stables, Sports for Special Athletes, KMHA&rsquo;s Donna&rsquo;s Kids Program, Waterloo Minor Soccer and Laurel Creek Track. (May 16, 2023)<img alt="" src="https://jerseywatch-files.s3.amazonaws.com/production/ckeditor/images/image-79rbdg.png" width="3497" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-fir" style="width: 851px; height: 553.473px;"> KSA Fee-assistance cheque presentations (Nov. 26, 2019): (L-R) Penny Richard (KW Gymnastics), Janet Dupuis (Waterloo Minor Baseball), Steve Miller (Kitchener Minor Girls Softball), Leah Mychayluk (Pride Stables), Ron Mooibroek (Kitchener Minor Baseball), Lerinda Chapeskie (Co-chair, KSA Fee-assistance Committee), Craig Findlay (Stanley Park Optimist Ball), Adele Couchman (Sports for Special Athletes), Mike Quigley (KW Youth Basketball), Shon Carroll (KW Minor Boys Softball) and John Menezes (Waterloo Regional Boxing Academy)&nbsp;<img alt="" src="https://jerseywatch-files.s3.amazonaws.com/production/ckeditor/images/Fee_assistance_group_photo_2018-AWUL-g.JPG" style="padding: 0px 15px; width: 722px; height: 408.431px;" width="632" class="fr-dii"> &nbsp;KSA Fee-assistance cheque presentations (Nov. 27, 2018)&nbsp;KSA Fee-assistance cheque recipients (BACK ROW L-R): LeVar Piper (Waterloo Regional Boxing), Ron Mooibrook (Kitchener Minor Baseball), Craig Findlay (Stanley Park Optimist Ball), Mike Quigley (KW Youth Basketball), Brad Freund (KMHA Donna&#39;s Kids), Scott Mueller ( KW Water Polo), Torsten Wandelt (Kitchener Minor Girls Softball) and Bill Pegg (KSA President - cheque presenter). (FRONT ROW L-R): Kelvin Lee (KW Gymnastics), Heather MacKneson (Pride Stables), Adele Couchman (Sports for Special Athletes),Shon Carroll (KW Minor Boys Softball) and Lerinda Chapeskie (KSA Fee-assistance Committee)&nbsp;&nbsp;To assist in efforts to ensure that more children have the opportunity to play, in the spring of 2013, KSA announced the establishment of a program to provide financial support to local minor sports groups offering registration fee subsidies. As of year-end 2022, KSA has provided $131,285 in fee-assistance funding and is budgeting $30,000 for our year-ending June 30, 2023 as play resumes and more sports groups join the program.This initiative provides funding to local minor sports groups that either already have publicized formal fee-assistance programs in place or&nbsp;plan to establish a formal fee-assistance program and promote it. To be accepted for KSA funding support, a sports group must agree to collaborate with KSA and promote this initiative. The group must have a formal Fee-assistance Program in place, promote it and acknowledge KSA&#39;s financial support. KSA cannot provide support to individuals.KSA&rsquo;s objectives are two-fold:<ul><li style="margin-bottom: 13px; text-align: left;">To help participating groups publicize their willingness to accept registrations from those requiring financial assistance.</li><li style="margin-bottom: 13px; text-align: left;">To increase the overall pool of funds available for fee-assistance thereby increasing the number of registrants who otherwise would not be able to participate.&nbsp;</li></ul>Please note: KSA&rsquo;s funding is provided directly to the sports organization and is meant to supplement (not replace) the sources* of assistance already available to individuals.Expectations from KSA are that each group will:(i) qualify applicants requesting assistance, direct them to potential sources providing individual/family* assistance and accept such funding as approved to ensure participation,(ii) charge each participant what they can reasonably afford &ndash; thereby ensuring each has a personal commitment to the sports program(iii) absorb at least a portion of the remaining shortfall in the registration fee(iv) enlist KSA&rsquo;s assistance with the outstanding balance.This means that registration payment may consist of 4 components (i) individual assistance (if any) (ii) participant&rsquo;s portion (ii) sports group&rsquo;s subsidy (iv) KSA fundingPaperwork required by KSA from groups wishing to participate is minimal:<ol><li style="margin-bottom: 13px; text-align: left;">A brief summary of the fee assistance your group provided last year including the number of participants helped and the subsidy total.</li><li style="margin-bottom: 13px; text-align: left;">Copies of any pamphlets, advertisements, blank registration forms, etc. which validate the existence and promotion of the fee-assistance program and KSA&rsquo;s financial backing thereof. (If you are using this opportunity to establish a formal fee-assistance program then include whatever documentation you do have and your plans for materials, and time-line, to comply.)</li><li style="margin-bottom: 13px; text-align: left;">A summary, after registrations are all in for the current session, of the total number of participants helped and a summary total of the four fee components.</li></ol>As KSA is now in its final year of operation, we are no longer able to accept any additional groups for funding under this program. Hopefully another group will step forward with funding to ensure that all children have the opportunity to play.&nbsp;We worked together to ensure everyone had the opportunity to play.Participating Groups:&nbsp;Sports groups that offered subsidized registration fees, in partnership with KSA, included:&nbsp;<a href="https://kitchenerminorbaseball.ca/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Kitchener Minor Baseball</a>,&nbsp; &nbsp;<a href="https://kwhlb.ca/" style="color:yellow; text-decoration:underline;" target="_blank">Kitchener-Waterloo House League Baseball</a>,&nbsp; &nbsp;<a href="http://waterloobaseball.ca/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Waterloo Minor Baseball,</a>&nbsp; &nbsp;<a href="https://kmgsa.com/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Kitchener Minor Girls Softball</a>, &nbsp; <a href="http://www.kwmbsa.ca/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">KW Minor Boys Softball</a>, &nbsp; <a href="https://kwwaterpolo.com/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">KW Water Polo</a>, &nbsp; <a href="https://www.kwyba.com/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">KW Youth Basketball</a>, &nbsp; <a href="https://www.kwsc.org/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">KW Skating Club</a>, &nbsp; <a href="http://stanleyparkball.com" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Stanley Park Optimist Ball,</a>&nbsp; &nbsp;<a href="https://www.foresthilltball.com/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Forest Hill T-Ball</a>, &nbsp; <a href="https://www.sportsforspecialathletes.org/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Sports for Special Athletes</a>, &nbsp; <a href="https://www.waterloounited.com/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Waterloo Minor Soccer</a>, &nbsp; &nbsp;<a href="https://www.waterlooboxing.ca/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Waterloo Regional Boxing Academy</a>, &nbsp; <a href="https://www.kwgymnastics.ca/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">&nbsp;KW Gymnastics</a>, &nbsp; &nbsp;<a href="https://laurelcreektrackclub.com/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Laurel Creek Track Club</a>, &nbsp; &nbsp;<a href="https://www.gomotionapp.com/team/canrwsc/page/home" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">ROW Swim Club</a>, &nbsp; &nbsp;<a href="https://donnaskids.ca/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Donna Weber&#39;s Sponsored Kids Program (Kitchener Minor Hockey)</a>, &nbsp; &nbsp;<a href="https://www.southwestkitcheneroptimist.com/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">SouthWest Optimist T-Ball,</a> &nbsp;and&nbsp; &nbsp;<a href="https://www.pridestables.com/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Pride Stables&nbsp;</a>(Ontario Developmental Riding Program).The invitation to partner with KSA was open to all the local &quot;not-for-profit&quot; minor sports groups as we endeavoured to eliminate any financial barriers to participation. &nbsp;Many other sports organizations have their own fee-assistance programs so ask when registering!Application procedure for groups:&nbsp;(As of 2024, NO LONGER VALID)Your initial submission, to establish your group&rsquo;s eligibility &ndash; and acceptance into this KSA Program &ndash; needed to include the historical data for the previous year (the BASE) and &nbsp;any supporting documents, brochures, advertising, &nbsp;website links, etc. for your current session (and/or timeline with plans to implement). Refer&nbsp;<a href="https://s3.amazonaws.com/jerseywatch-files/production/organizations/2275/downloads/KSA_Fee_assistance_application_form_2023.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer"></a>to Documents on this site&#39;s main page for the submission form and an example of a completed one. We did not require, nor want, information on the specific players being assisted.Once accepted into the KSA Program, groups were required to submit the summary sheet for their current session (usually the following year) ASAP after registrations closed along with any missing documentation. KSA covered a portion of the outstanding balance resulting from the fee-assistance program (with consideration to the initial BASE figures achieved without KSA assistance).Note: Sports groups that have already participated in KSA&#39;s Fee-assistance Program need to reveal any changes to the previous year&#39;s corresponding session&#39;s figures when re-applying for assistance. Groups offering assistance to participants for various sessions throughout the year can&nbsp;submit separate applications for each session at the appropriate time or submit, in total (with breakdowns) on an annual basis.* Sources of individual/family assistance could include (among others):&nbsp;OutReach (Region of Waterloo), Family &amp; Children&rsquo;s Services,&nbsp;<a href="https://www.kitchener.ca/en/things-to-do/fee-assistance.aspx" style="color:gold; text-decoration:underline;" target="_blank">City of Kitchener</a>&nbsp;and/or&nbsp;<a href="http://www.waterloo.ca/en/gettingactive/feeassistance.asp" style="color:gold; text-decoration:underline;" target="_blank">City of Waterloo Leisure Access</a>,&nbsp;,&nbsp;<a href="http://jumpstart.canadiantire.ca/content/microsites/jumpstart/en/apply.html#wanttoapply" style="color:gold; text-decoration:underline;" target="_blank">Jump Start</a>, (for some programs) <a href="http://www.kidsportcanada.ca/ontario/kitchener-waterloo/" style="color:gold; text-decoration:underline;" target="_blank">Kidsport</a> , and others.&nbsp;

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