OUR programs​

HHF provides mentorship, life skills workshops, and psychosocial support designed to help youth
overcome barriers by nurturing the development of social-emotional and self-management strategies
as well as guiding skaters through the process of post-secondary career exploration.

Community Outreach is an open-enrollment outreach-based program that serves
​as the primary point of entry into all HHF programs, events, and opportunity.


Social-Emotional Learning Programs

Legacy (Skate Camp)
Our Legacy (Skate Camp) program offers scholarships to a well-known action sports training camp to motivate teen skaters (age 14-17) to participate in HHF's year-round Legacy Program.

​Brownsville Skate Project
The Brownsville Skate Project is a collaborative partnership between Harold Hunter Foundation and L+M Development Partners/Marcus Garvey Houses, the Brownsville SportZone initiative, the Medgar Evers Beacon program, and the Frederick Douglas Boys & Girls Teen program to provide access and exposure to skateboarding through free skateboarding clinics to Brownsville youth in Betsy Head Skatepark in Brooklyn.

Women & LGBTQIA+ Initiative
HHF's Women & LGBTQIA+ Initiative seeks to provide support, advocacy and opportunity to skateboarders in the NYC area who identify as women and/or LGBTQIA+.

Men’s Mental Health Initiative
The Men's Health Initiative is a pilot program that focuses on male-identifying skaters and their impact within the skateboard community. The goal is to host a series of workshops and events that support men’s ability to listen, learn, and become better allies and role models.
Workforce-Readiness Programs

​Creative Careers
Creative Careers is a program designed to make workforce-readiness and career-building opportunities more accessible to the NYC skateboarding community. Through workshops, panels, events, and educational opportunities, we strive to create spaces where skaters can network with potential mentors and mentees, develop and hone skills, and expand their landscapes of opportunity.

Grow With Google
Grow With Google @ HHF is a collaboration between Google and HHF to provide NYC skateboarders scholarships for Google Career Certificates, which is a self-paced, online training program that offers professional certificates in the fast-growing high-demand fields of project management, user experience (UX) design, data analytics, digital marketing & e-commerce, and IT support.

WHY SKATEBOARDING?

​Skateboarding offers a healthy outlet that diverts youth from gang participation, prevents a sedentary lifestyle, builds character, provides a way to channel difficult feelings, encourages crossing national, cultural, and racial boundaries, and instills a spirit of community involvement, self-efficacy, and entrepreneurship.

Many of the very qualities, abilities, and characteristics that draw kids to skateboarding can also make them vulnerable to a variety of pitfalls. Skateboarders have unique needs that are often not adequately addressed by traditional organizations and institutions, thereby hindering the optimal development of their creativity and innovative spirit. We seek to fill this void by providing services that are specifically and creatively tailored to develop and realize potential through skateboarding.

HHF programs, which are developed in consultation with local skaters, are designed to use skateboarding-related activities to develop and enhance our core values in youth aged 6 to 30. Our programs focus on:
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  1. Exposing at-risk populations to skateboarding as an alternative to violence, gang participation, and a sedentary lifestyle;
  2. Providing instrumental support, resources, and opportunities for alternative experiential education to those who are already committed to skateboarding so that they can achieve educational, occupational, and personal success.
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