Team G2T: www.getting2tri.org - Formed in 2006 and headquartered in Atlanta, Ga., The Getting2Tri Foundation (G2T) is a 501(c)(3) non profit organization that provides coaching, training and mentoring to physically-challenged (PC) athletes in the sports of swimming, running, cycling and triathlon. Specifically, we address the needs of individuals with limb loss, paralysis, muscular or neurological disorders and create a unique community of support.
Stop Child Trafficking Now: www.sctnow.org - Stop Child Trafficking has chosen to fund a bold, new approach, one that addresses the demand side of child sex trafficking by targeting buyers/predators for prosecution and conviction. While over 260 organizations are currently focused on rescuing children, until the demand side is addressed, the supply will always exist. Few people know that virtually no convictions have occurred in the U.S. in the last 10 years, thus this heinous crime grows.
SCTNow has launched a national campaign to raise money for retired elite military operatives targeting the demand side of trafficking. These Special Operative Teams gather information on child predators both in the U.S. and abroad, information that will be used to convict child sex buyers. These operatives use the skills developed in the War on Terror in this war to bring down predators.Professional law enforcement have vetted this strategy and are eager to work with these operative teams once funding is secured.
The efforts of a single operative team will do more to save children than millions of dollars put toward rescuing victims. Even a handful of new convictions will become a strong deterrent to buyers heretofore undeterred. A predator pays as little as $25 for 15 minutes of sex with a child. For the same amount of money, a 4-man team of operatives can be placed on the field to stop him.
Do The Extraordinary: www.dotheextraordinary.com - “Make no small plans, for they have no capacity to stir men’s souls.” Instantly I am conflicted. An email from the marketing department of one of the largest athletic apparel companies in the world. A simple request, drawing to mind a complex array of thoughts. A photo, taken from my personal camera of my buddy, 2006 NFL MVP Shaun Alexander, somehow catches the eye of a big shot at this company– and now they’d like to use my photo on a billboard. Cool, right? Then why does everything in me want to tell this guy to “shove off?”
Maybe because my heart is cold to the Machine. A Machine that sells Mediocrity to the Majority. A Generation of Conglomerates that use Super-Stars like pawns to sell products to the Youth of the Nation, disregarding elements of Substance, Character, and Integrity desperately lacking from so many of these same Super-Stars. A vast sea of samness, with different logos. My heart is cold to this machine, and I can no longer be a part of it. You cannot have my photo. You can not have my fashion. I am tired of fitting into corporate boxes. Im am tired of being expected to conform. I am tired of the mediocrity. I want more.
Do The Extraordinary is born. Existing to identify with the style and heart of OUR generation, a geration of world changers, and to encourage, inform, inspire, unite, and invest in the Extraordinary causes of so-called ordinary people. I enlist the help of the most talented people around me. We create a Clothing Brand, that is so much more…Blayne Walsh begins to imagine, dream, and conceptualize the designs for our first run of clothes. Shaun Alexander consults, networks, and cohorts with me to create a launching pad for the Brand. Together we coordinate the entire Movement, placing causes like Global Hunger, theAIDS epidemic, and Child Exploitation at the forefront of our efforts.
We sell Fashionable Street Athletic Apparel for a new generation, and use the money to give back. With a chip on our shoulder, and a Hunger for more, we set out to prove a simple point: We are SO extraordinary, capable of such extraordinary things…It’s what we DO that matters! Do The Extraordinary