Helping Others Persevere & Excel, better known as HOPE
Week. Hope Week is the week that the New York Yankees organization gives back
and showcases charities and organizations that are making a difference in the
community and in the world. For the last seven seasons New York has honored
these organizations at Yankee Stadium and abroad using a various number of
methods and this season will be no different as HOPE Week returns for its
eighth consecutive season in the Bronx. This season will also mark the sixth
consecutive year that the organization will get a head start on things by
honoring a Tampa area organization during Spring Training.
On March 18, also known as TODAY, the Yankees will announce
HOPE Week officially with a pregame ceremony at George M. Steinbrenner Field
before their 6:35 pm ET game with the Baltimore Orioles. At the ceremony the
team will honor Tampa’s chapter of Ainsley’s Angels, a national running
organization that builds awareness for America’s special needs community and
its members through events that focus on their inclusion.
Ainsley’s Angels was founded in 2008 and the running
enthusiasts raise funds by running and pushing along special needs riders in
wheel chairs they call chariots. The organization has chapters in 25 different
states and has seen several members run coast-to-coast with their riders to
raise money and awareness for the organization.
HOPE Week will run from June 6 through June 10 at Yankee
Stadium and all across New York in 2016. All of the minor league affiliates for
the Yankees will also hold their own HOPE Weeks allowing the program to reach
five additional cities and touch 25 more lives and hearts. Evil Empire though,
right Boston?
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Sorry for the Capatcha... Blame the Russians :)