Aaron joined with MLB players across the country in honoring National Nurses day by putting Stephanie Pantelidis' name on his jersey. Thank you to all our front- line workers. We are grateful.
Tokay Colony 4-H Club Receives the Aaron Judge ALL RISE Foundation Inaugural Mini-Grant - San Joaquin County
Aaron Judge, New York Yankee and former Fresno State Bulldog and his foundation, the Aaron Judge ALL RISE Foundation is proud to announce the recipient of the Foundation’s first Mini-Grant.
Tokay Colony 4-H Club serves eighty youth members of East Lodi. This Mini-Grant will be used to continue developing leadership and public speaking skills, expanding their knowledge of raising livestock and helping in the community.
2020 Mini Grant Applications are Live
ALL RISE Foundation Launches Website
The Aaron Judge ALL RISE Foundation has been working for the past year to promote programs, resources and connect with youth across the country. In order for our foundation to be as transparent as possible and to share the work we are doing, we are excited to announce the creation and launch of our website, aaronjudgeallrisefoundation.org.
“ALL RISE will inspire children and youth to become
responsible citizens by engaging them in activities that
encourage them to reach unlimited possibilities.”
Our goal is to support young people and the individuals who work with young people through our website and our programs. Most of our work has been local, focusing on Linden, Aaron’s hometown. We have engaged in a few national campaigns with #ICANHELP supporting citizenship online. We are looking to expand these programs to cities like Fresno - where Aaron went to college - and New York City, home of the Yankees.
As part of this growth, keep checking in as we share what these programs will be and when they are happening. In addition, we have established an application process to receive mini-grants for projects in schools and communities. All of this will be on our website.
Last, for those of you who work with youth, we will be sharing some free lessons and resources covering a wide range of topics for young people.
We are excited to share this resource with you and look forward to serving our communities.
Aaron Judge #UncapThePossibilities
In April 2018, Aaron Judge joined Sharpie Pens and the Players Tribune in supporting #ICANHELP, a nonprofit dedicated to supporting students on how to respond to negative online content and build positive social media campaigns.
#ICANHELP has trained more than 450,000 students in 15 states and two countries. This was a natural fit for Aaron who believes strongly in supporting youth and youth leadership development. “The #ICANHELP foundation is really about deleting negativity on soical media. Not just deleting negativity, but empowering young people and educators with a system and a plan to stop negativity when they see it and produce a positive outcome,” says ALL RISE foundation founder Aaron Judge.
No stranger to negativity, Aaron’s start in Major League Baseball was frequented with questions about his heigh, size, swing performance from the first day he was drafted. Aaron turned those negative comments into positive action finding motivation in those who seemed more interested in tearing down than building up.
“Create your own lines, in this world you are told so many times this is how it’s done, or this is how it should be. Break those lines, break those chains, break out of those line you are given and find the positivity.”
This is also a personal cause for Aaron. “My cousins are 8 and 11, they are about to get into this social media world, I want to make a positive impact for them.” Aaron adds, “I don’t want to be defined as only a baseball player. There’s a lot of things off the baseball field that also define who I am. I want to show people that I did help.”
Aaron also penned a personal essay for the campaign, adding “I want to leave an impact on this world that’s greater than just what I do on the baseball field. I’m blessed to have the best parents in the world, and I think the best way that I can repay them is by taking the lessons they taught me — the things that made me the man I am today — and pass them on.”
You can learn more about #ICANHELP at www.icanhelpdeletenegativity.org.