National Gay Flag Football League National Gay Flag Football League P.2. Part IV.

Narrative

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The National Gay Flag Football League (NGFFL) is a federation of 20 local recreational flag-football leagues that serve the lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) community in metropolitan areas around the nation. The NGFFL creates healthy, thriving local LGBT communities by breaking through some of the barriers that historically have left LGBT people feeling isolated and apart in the places where we work and live. Those barriers include lack of opportunity for meaningful connection, old stereotypes about what it means to be LGBT, and tired prejudices held by people both gay and straight.

Vision
To become the greatest place for LGBT people to experience all the wonderful things that come from participation in team sports. This vision, as adopted in May 2011, is supported by a six-point agenda: Grow into more local communities and invite more people where we already exist. Pursue new heights in the sport and in LGBT sports broadly, on the field and off. Strike an elegant balance between competitiveness and camaraderie, so we can play outstanding flag football yet leave the field as community and friends. Be a great place for all LGBT athletes, including those who are among the most talented recreational athletes in North America, and those considering trying sports for the first time. Offer an inclusive, safe, welcoming environment for all LGBT people generally, no matter race, color, creed, gender or gender expression. Share the sense of community, strength and esteem we create with the communities around us.

Mission
The NGFFL seeks to promote the positive social and athletic enjoyment of American flag football. Through our league, our events and most importantly our members, we also seek to foster and augment the self-respect of all LGBT persons and to promote respect and understanding from the larger community. While particular emphasis is placed on these specific goals, it is a fundamental principle of NGFFL that all activities, social and athletic, are conducted to be inclusive in nature and that no individual shall be excluded from participating on the basis of sexual orientation, gender, race, religion, nationality, ethnic origin, political beliefs, athletic ability, physical challenge, HIV status or gender identity.

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History
The NGFFL is the brainchild of two men in California, Jim Buzinski and Cyd Zeigler, who both were recreational-sports participants and advocates for LGBT equality in the sports arena. They knew that sports breaks down barriers and chips away at stereotypes. And they were flag football fans and players. So in 2002, they organized the first ever gay Super Bowl, which they dubbed the Gay Bowl. That first tournament featured only three teams from San Francisco, Los Angeles, and Boston but it was a success. In each subsequent year, the Gay Bowl grew in size, with more teams representing more cities traveling to take part. And participation in the Gay Bowl had an effect at home. Once a team from a new city participated in Gay Bowl, the players returned to their communities energized and determined to share the flag-football experience with more LGBT people. Local leagues began to form, and the NGFFL jumped at the opportunity. It supported the growth of those fledgling local leagues by providing aspiring local leaders with education resources, advice, counsel and other assistance in areas such as organizational formation, player recruitment, and community outreach. Today, the sport has taken root in 20 major metropolitan areas in the U.S. and Canada. As more LGBT people have been touched by flag football and its unique capacity to chip away at stereotypes and advance understanding of the LGBT communitys diversity and athleticism, the NGFFL has evolved into the thriving nationwide community it is today. It is estimated that some 2,000-3,000 people now participate in NGFFL-related leagues and events. The positive impact of that participation increased understanding and changed minds about what it means to be LGBT is immeasurable.

Opportunities and Challenges

Opportunities The great opportunity before the NGFFL is use our great sport to create more healthy outlets for more LGBT people in more places. In many more locations, we have the opportunity to be an agent for breaking through the barriers that otherwise leave LGBT people feeling isolated and apart. We have an opportunity to create, through our sport, more meaningful connections among the people within LGBT communities. When that happens, we debunk old stereotypes about what it means to be LGBT, and we correct tired prejudices.

In many more locations, we have the opportunity to be an agent for breaking through barriers that leave LGBT people feeling isolated and apart. We have an opportunity to create, through our sport, more meaningful connections within LGBT communities.

And we have learned that some of the most inaccurate stereotypes about what it means to be LGBT are held by LGBT people themselves! This is particularly true when it comes to sports. As children and teens, many LGBT people perhaps particularly gay men shy away from organized sports. Sports, from school-level to professional, remain one of the last bastions of overt homophobia. In 2011, even as the infamous Dont Ask, Dont Tell

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policy was repealed, there still are nearly no LGBT athletes in professional sports who are open about who they are. Therefore, many LGBT people both young and adult accept as fact the subtle messages that U.S. society sends: sports are no place for gay people. Those people touched by the NGFFL have that inaccurate notion blown apart. The NGFFL provides those individuals with an outlet to experience all the wonderful things that come from participation in team sports personal achievement, teamwork, camaraderie, and a sense of community identity and shared purpose. And unlike so much of the broader population who participated in sports as children, the NGFFL provides many LGBT people the opportunity to experience all of this for the first time. The NGFFL also upends preconceived notions for those LGBT people who, unlike the group just discussed, actually grew up participating in team sports but in most cases hiding who they are from their teammates and coaches. More often than not, they believed they were entirely alone. The NGFFL shows them that in fact they were not alone many other young athletes were struggling in silence just like them. In the NGFFL, they meet and share those mutual experiences with others who also walked in those shoes, sometimes even on the field right beside them, silently. For many, its a colossal discovery. And the NGFFL has the opportunity to As a young man coming to terms with continue to educate the broader population being gay, I had a hard time figuring as well namely, straight people that out who I was or where I fit. But then I LGBT people are really no different than discovered gay flag football and the them. American football is integral to U.S. amazing community around it. I found culture. Many Americans love the sport passionately. That includes many LGBT people just like me. This league has Americans, who not only love the sport, but literally changed my life. want to play it (the safer, flag version, - Peter Koenig, player in the NGFFL anyway). Time and again, the straight family and friends of NGFFL flag football players who are first-time spectators at games comment that the players Dont look gay at all. Its almost as if their minds are blown by the discovery that gay people can play sports at a high level, physically and with passion. The NGFFL opens minds in the communities in which we play. The NGFFL reveals to people, both gay and straight, that LGBT people are just as diverse, and at the same time really no different from, the broader population. Research shows that the greatest barrier to people supporting full equality under the law for LGBT people is lack of understanding of what it means to be LGBT. The NGFFL goes to the heart of that. As NGFFL commissioner (president) Shane Kinkennon says, The countless volunteer hours I put into gay flag football is my number-one contribution to the march toward equality for LGBT people. Challenges The greatest challenge faced by the NGFFL in capitalizing on the opportunities explained above is the very factor our organization aims to address the sense among many LGBT people that they are separate and apart from the communities around them, oftentimes including the other LGBT people around them!

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The NGFFL and its many volunteers know through experience that once LGBT people play gay flag football, they tend to be hooked. Simply playing the sport is great fun. But while on the field, participants quickly discover that LGBT people are no less athletic than the general population. Some people discover that they can excel in sports even though they believed they were entirely un-athletic. And teamwork is paramount in flag football is in all team sports, they quickly form friendships that lead to lasting bonds and lasting communities. But getting LGBT people to try flag football is extraordinarily challenging. Newcomers to sports believe they wont be athletic enough to play (which almost never is the case). Those people with organized sports in their backgrounds believe theyll be more athletic than everyone else (which almost never is the case). Or people believe the myth that it just cant be real that there cant be a place, certainly not a sports place, where they will But getting LGBT people to try flag simply fit in and have their eyes opened to football is extraordinarily challenging something great. they believe the myth that it just cant Weve learned that overcoming this barrier of disconnection and even indifference takes committed in-person testimonial friends telling other friends, Youve got to come out and try this flag football league Ive been playing in! Its fantastic

be real that there cant be a place, certainly not a sports place, where they will simply fit in and have their eyes opened to something great.

That requirement illuminates the other organizations other major challenge, which is a more mechanical one: our extraordinarily limited human resources. The NGFFL is allvolunteer no staff, no building, no equipment, and no overhead. Thats great for making significant impact with limited budget. The downside is that NGFFL board members and other volunteers squeeze NGFFL work into the cracks between their day jobs. The NGFFL is a membership organization comprised of 20 local LGBT flag-football leagues around the country. The logistical demands of running a quality flag-football league are extraordinary securing fields, maintaining permits, providing equipment and game-day officials, organizing schedules of play, providing medical and other support, organizing community events, etc. Yet each of the NGFFLs member organizations are all-volunteer as well. Complicating matters, each of the seven volunteers who serve as the NGFFLs board of directors (and as its unpaid staff) are leaders in their local leagues. That means they are doing the national-level work of the NGFFL, but they also have a hand in overseeing week in, week out league logistics. It is a true labor of love by a group of people who believe passionately that flag football can bring about positive change. The challenge is, for the organization to achieve its vision, upending preconceived notions for more and more LGBT people and the communities around them, the organization must establish local LGBT flag football leagues in more cities. But all that work must happen remotely. For instance, the city of St. Louis, Missouri, has no LGBT flag football league. The NGFFL wants to establish one there, but the organization has no one in St. Louis to serve as that spark, organize the first games, recruit players, and invest all the other countless hours involved in bringing a local league to life. With

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increased visibility, the NGFFL will perhaps be able to attract interested volunteers in target cities, like St. Louis, to serve as that spark. But the organization is not there yet.

Programs
Creating and growing local leagues. Where the rubber meets the road for nearly all of the opportunities and challenges articulated above is the playing field of LGBT flag-football leagues. The local, every-weekend playing field is where tired old ideas about what it means to be LGBT are exposed and cast aside. The local, every-weekend playing field is where questions are asked; it is The local, every-weekend playing field where the breaking down of fear and is where the breaking down of fear uncertainty about life as an LGBT and uncertainty about life as an LGBT person really happens. Thus, forming person really happens. Thus, forming new leagues in places where they dont new leagues in places where they dont yet exist, and helping established yet exist, and helping established leagues grow, is the NGFFLs leagues grow, is the NGFFLs programming priority.

programming priority.

In April 2011, the NGFFL published its first ever local-league development toolkit, a comprehensive educational resource for establishing and growing local LGBT flag-football leagues. (See Attachment B.) It provides fledgling and established flag football leagues with a step by step guide to success in five key operational areas: 1) 2) 3) 4) 5) Board and internal management Recruitment, registration and retention Income and sponsorship Teams and playing; and Internal and external communications.

Importantly, the toolkit includes real-life examples of tools and resources being used successfully by local leagues around the country today. For instance, in the Teams and players section, users can click through to a database of wellorganized resources such as a sample agenda for a new-player skills clinic, a sample science-based warm-up routine to keep players injury-free, and an education cheat sheet on basic offense and defense formations. Surveying players to understand their needs, interests, priorities. In order to know if the people playing LGBT flag football believe in the sports capacity to undo stereotypes, cultivate understanding, and change lives, we ask the people who play what the priorities of the NGFFL should be. In January of 2011, the NGFFL conducted a first-ever survey of gay flag-football players. The goal was to assess what people would like to see from the NGFFL over the next five years. The answers affirmed what we suspected that people who play want to ensure that more people have the opportunity to play, because playing breaks down old stereotypes. Respondents called for the NGFFL to establish and grow leagues and programs in cities where they don't currently exist, and to raise awareness of gay flag football in both the LGBT and broader sports communities.

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Respondents called for supporting existing, or helping to establish, local leagues, and to provide structured mentoring. 77% of respondents indicated that serve in some sort of mentoring/information sharing role in their own communities currently, suggesting that they are engaged and extremely interested in seeing this sport growing and thriving. Communicating, sharing information with LGBT flag-football players. To take advantage of the opportunities and meet the challenges described above, the NGFFL must do a better job of communicating how the organization and the sport are positively impacting the lives of LGBT people. Thus, the NGFFL launched its first-ever monthly e-newsletter, The 2-Minute Drill. (Three recent editions are included as Attachment C.) The e-newsletter highlights the work the NGFFL is doing that was identified as important by survey respondents: supporting local-league education, growth and development; supporting new tournaments; and generally creating new opportunities for community building through the sport. Overseeing the Gay Bowl national championships. The Gay Bowl national championship tournament that takes place every year in the fall is the number one place where the eyes of people both LGBT and straight are opened to the incredible level of athleticism, skill, and competitiveness that LGBT flagfootball players possess. No one believes just how high the competition level at Gay Bowl is until they see it. The tournament is a master class in our sport played with excellence, and it sets the standard of play for local leagues around the country, a level of play that becomes a source of pride and excellence for those who participate everywhere. Thus The NGFFL oversees and shepherds the Gay Bowl in a number of important ways: 1) The NGFFL facilitates the process by which Gay Bowl host cities are chosen by local member-league leaders. The NGFFL solicits bids from cities interested in hosting the Gay Bowl, facilitates a review process for those bids, and oversees voting. 2) The NGFFL ensures the presence of needed equipment at each Gay Bowl: flags, footballs, etc. 3) The NGFFL uncovers and pursues opportunities for corporate sponsorships to offset the costs of hosting the tournament. 4) The NGFFL trains and provides officials to referee Gay Bowl games. 5) The NGFFL oversees the process determining which teams have met the requirements for participation, how teams are seeded, how the draws are formed, etc. Education of on-field officials (referees). Quality refereeing is critical to creating a positive experience for players in local leagues, and such positive experiences on the field week after week are what delivers the NGFFLs stereotype-busting benefits off the field. Therefore the NGFFL is building a network of educators for member-city leagues interested in training future on-field officials. And the NGFFL serves as a facilitator of helping local leagues by connecting training and education resources to those that need them. For instance, in March, the NGFFL connected the nations top two referee trainers to

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the local LGBT flag football league in Denver, CO. Those NGFFL trainers traveled to Denver and put aspiring referees through an intensive, weekend-long training. Afterward, in a mid-season player survey in Denver, respondents reported dramatically increased satisfaction with the on-field officials. Driving a new, far more ambitious corporate fundraising strategy. Because the NGFFL lacks volunteers in the many if not countless cities across North America that dont yet have a local LGBT flag-football league, but should, we believe they way to reach potential players and future volunteer leaders in those cities is though sophisticated corporate partnerships. The NGFFL aspires to create a presence in the media in cities it has targeted for potential future leagues, calling energetic volunteers to organize flag football games for LGBT people in their communities. The NGFFL then will provide those individuals with mentoring and resources to help them achieve that goal. Short of having staff, or even volunteers, in any of those cities, the NGFFL believes the way to achieve the above is by partnering with corporations willing to financially underwrite such activities for the benefit of greater exposure for their brands. Thus the NGFFL invests a good deal of effort to recruit new corporate partners. For instance, in June 2011, the NGFFL announced the first of what it hopes will be a number of new national-level corporate partnerships that directly benefit local leagues: a $25,000 commitment from MillerCoors for the remainder of the 2011 calendar year, of which the NGFFL is withholding only 2% for its operating fund. It is indicative of the NGFFLs commitment to not gather and hold monies but to share it with local member leagues that live out the NGFFLs vision every week.

Planned Activities
The NGFFL has the following activities planned for 2012 and beyond: Develop structured mentoring for local-league leaders, players. In the late summer / early fall of 2011, the NGFFL expects to launch its first ever structured mentoring program. The NGFFL has recruited 105 volunteers from local member leagues around the country to serve as mentors for leaders and players in other local leagues. The mentoring program expects to match willing mentors to fledgling and developing league cities in key-challenge areas including player recruitment and retention, officiating, sponsorship, on-the-field skills, league logistics, board administration, and management. In addition, the NGFFL plans to launch and maintain a monthly series of expert videos in which leaders from local leagues pose questions that are answered on video by experts in the topic areas from other NGFFL players, and shared with all NGFFL local leagues via the organizations website and social media properties.

Serve as a voice on the value of gay sports. Per guidance from the January 2011 player survey, the NGFFL is seeking out opportunities to raise the visibility

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of LGBT flag football and the role the NGFFL plays in breaking down inaccurate notions and tired stereotypes. The still-new 2-Minute Drill e-newsletter is one way the NGFFL is meeting that charge by sharing information with those people already engaged in the sport. But the NGFFL plans to become more proactive and systematic in outreach to the news media and blogosphere as part of its Vision: 2011-2015 charge. To a degree, that work has already begun. For instance, the NGFFL and the sport of gay flag football have been mentioned twice this year in articles in the New York Times. The NGFFL plans to far more vigorously pursue such media coverage, to educate people outside the LGBT flag football community about the great things the organization and sport are doing. Increase our diversity. At founding and it its early years, the NGFFL and its premier national-championship tournament, the Gay Bowl, primarily featured and served gay men. In recent years, the NGFFL and its local-member leagues have evolved at times organically and at times purposefully to feature greater diversity in gender, gender identity, and gender expression. Today, were seeing the results of that growing focus on diversity; we believe its critical to the myth-debunking purpose that we ultimately serve. Many of the local leagues under the NGFFL umbrella are co-ed in policy. In some (such as in Denver, CO), as many as 33% of participants are women. Others (such as Chicago and New York City) now feature full-blown womens divisions. The NGFFL is proud to have a transgendered person serving on its board of directors. But our diversity work has only just begun. Women have long been welcome as players in the Gay Bowl national championship tournament. But the 2012 Gay Bowl national-championship tournament will feature the Gay Bowls first ever eight-team womens division. The NGFFL will be watching that closely to learn and see what it portends about increased diversity in the organizations future. Incorporate service and philanthropy. The Supporting Agenda in the NGFFLs Vision: 2011-2015 document calls for the NGFFL to share the sense of community, strength and esteem we create with the communities around us. The NGFFL is just now beginning conversations about what that means when it comes to operational planning. But there is a growing belief that, because of the energy the NGFFL community has generated captured among those who participate, there is much that we could offer to the communities and populations of need around us. Some if not many of the local leagues under the NGFFL umbrella already incorporate community service and philanthropy into their league-organizers efforts. The NGFFL is studying the best of what has been learned to inform long-term planning about how the NGFFL may positively touch the lives of not only its players, but of the people around where we play.

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Outcomes and Objectives

The work described above is the NGFFLs way of pursuing two core objectives. They are: Advance health, happiness and equality for LGBT people, using flag football as our tool of choice. The NGFFL will change communities through amateur flag football by unraveling inaccurate preconceived notions about what it means to be LGBT. The NGFFL will present flag football as a means to educate, change attitudes, promote self-discovery, and build esteem within the LGBT community, and in the communities in which LGBT people work, live, and play. Promote local leagues to advance that education. The NGFFL will foster formation of local LGBT flag-football leagues in locations where they do not exist and support those organizations growth and success. The NGFFL will provide programs and resources to help member organizations recruit, educate and retain players to achieve broader impact in educating, changing attitudes, and promoting self-discovery.

The NGFFL aspires to achieve the following outcomes: More LGBT peoples lives touched, educated, and changed; better understanding of what it means to be both LGBT and an athlete. Greater understanding of LGBT people in the communities in which LGBT people work, live, and play. More LGBT flag-football leagues in far more cities across North America. Larger LGBT flag-football leagues in the cities where those leagues are already established. Systematic giving back to the communities around us.

P.2. Part V. 1a.

Board Members
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Lance Burage, Board Member 125 Elati St. Denver, CO 80223 Thurman Williams, Board Member 125 Elati St. Denver, CO 80223

P.3. Part V. 3a.

Board Qualifications

Shane Kinkennon, Commissioner (Denver, CO). Kinkennon, an 18-year veteran of the public relations industry, runs his own marketing-communications agency, Kinkennon Communications Inc. a highly successful boutique firm serving Fortune 500, nonprofit, charitable foundation, and trade association clients. He holds a B.A. from Stephen F. Austin State University. Shane says that LGBT flag football changed his life, opening his eyes that he could be both an athlete and openly gay, and thus hes committed to sharing that message with many more LGBT people. Shane spends 15-25 hours/week serving the NGFFL.

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Joe Cooper, Treasurer (Denver, CO). Cooper has been a business consultant for over 10 years, working on private and public pension plans early in his career, and is currently focused on analytics to improve customer care. He holds a M.A. in Mathematics from the University of Florida. Joe believes that finding the gay flag-football community allowed him to finally accept himself, as well as instilled confidence in who he is and what he can achieve. Also, the work he has done helping to build the flag football community in Denver has had a positive impact on his professional development. Joe spends 3-5 hours/week serving the NGFFL. Molly Lenore, Director of Communications (New York, NY). Molly is cofounder and president of Moey Inc., a company devoted to the development of installations at the intersection of art, science, technology, design and education. Molly specializes in conceptual design and creation of media installations and interactive public spaces. She has developed and designed work for public spaces, museums, art galleries and fellow artists. For eight years Molly held the position of senior new technology artist with The American Museum of Natural History in New York City. Molly has been a guest lecturer at the Harvard Graduate School of Design and New York University. She devotes 10-20 hours a week to the NGFFL and her local league. Jared Garduno, Director of Outreach (Phoenix, AZ). Jared has more than a decade of experience in Marketing for independent financial advisors. He believes that LGBT Flag Football has a positive impact on openly gay athletes around the country. He is committed to promoting gay athletics. Jared spends an average of 15+ hours/week serving the NGFFL Shawn Albritton, Director of Rules (Chicago, IL). Shawn serves as a Senior Planning Analyst and in business development for Resurrection Health Care. He is currently President of the Chicago Metropolitan Sports Association (CMSA), one of the largest LGBT sports organizations in the country with over 4,000 members and 20 different sports leagues. He earned a B.S. Multinational Business Operations from Florida State University. His experience growing up as a gay male in the very conservative Tampa Bay area gave him the drive to help others discover their true potential, just as he had to find his true self in the CMSA league when he moved to Chicago in 2000. He spends 2+ hours per week on NGFFL business. Lance Burage, Head Referee (Atlanta, GA). Burage is a veteran of the radio industry for the last 19 years, holding down the afternoon drive air shift at WUBLFM. He holds a B.A. from the University of Alabama. Lance has been officiating high school football for nine years now, and says that when he moved to Atlanta and discovered there was a gay flag football league, he jumped at the opportunity. "It takes a special kind of person to have a passion for officiating, and I wanted to help the Atlanta league thrive and grow. I love football, and am so happy that I am able to share that passion with all of my LGBT friends on the field," says Burage. He has been the head referee for the NGFFL since 2008. Thurman Williams, Gay Bowl Liaison (Washington, DC, formerly Atlanta, GA). Thurman holds a B.S. from Middle Tennessee State University in Business

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Administration and has 23 years experience in sales, marketing and strategic thinking with consumer packaged-goods organizations. In his current role, he serves as Director of Sales for the Coca-Cola Company. He has played a leadership role in developing a gay flag football in league in Atlanta, Georgia. He served as chairman of his local LGBT flag-football league and on the board of the Atlanta Gay Sports Alliance as Secretary. He has remains committed to the sport of flag football and spends 10-12 hours a week serving on the NGFFL board. P. 5. Part VII. 1. a and b: Benefits to individuals and Groups NGFFL key role as a federation of 20 local recreational flag-football leagues defines as its primary purpose: To become the greatest place for LGBT people to experience all the wonderful things that come from participation in team sports. As such, the NGFFL sees its role as league organizer and supporter to promote individual participation through local membership of flag-football leagues. NGFFL facilitates the league structure for individuals to participate in team sports to engage in organized athletic competition to foster the benefit of competitive team sports. Individuals: Advance health, happiness and equality for LGBT people, using flag football as our tool of choice. The NGFFL will change communities through amateur flag football by unraveling inaccurate preconceived notions about what it means to be LGBT. The NGFFL will present flag football as a means to educate, change attitudes, promote self-discovery, and build esteem within the LGBT community, and in the communities in which LGBT people work, live, and play. Groups: Promote local leagues to advance that education. The NGFFL will foster formation of local LGBT flag-football leagues in locations where they do not exist and support those organizations growth and success. The NGFFL will provide programs and resources to help member organizations recruit, educate and retain players to achieve broader impact in educating, changing attitudes, and promoting self-discovery.

With a focus from both of these objectives to further integrate into the community and breakdown numerous social barriers from preconceived fears: More LGBT peoples lives touched, educated, and changed; better understanding of what it means to be both LGBT and an athlete. Greater understanding of LGBT people in the communities in which LGBT people work, live, and play. More LGBT flag-football leagues in far more cities across North America. Larger LGBT flag-football leagues in the cities where those leagues are already established. Systematic giving back to the communities around us.

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These are the specific benefits that we hope will reside in the individuals and teams participating in the leagues we have established and hope to expand. P. 6. Part VIII. Specific Activities: Fundraising 4. A. NGFFL, does plan to have a philanthropic component to its resource development program. The agency plans to generate its operating resources from two primary sources of funding; Memberships and Corporate donations. Memberships: The operating model of the NGFFL is to attract local community groups (partners) to form local leagues and teams. NGFFL is the facilitator or organizer for local groups by providing a framework of operating principles for the league. Teams support NGGFL by paying annual membership dues at the beginning of each fiscal year. These dues support all of the operating expenses of NGFFL, the primary activity of which is to sponsor the annual Gay Super Bowl. As the program has grown over the last 10 years, with the addition of member cities and new cities, NGFFL has garnered significant credibility and established itself as a model of community involvement. Corporate donations: This is the area that the league plans to focus its energy on for philanthropic support. By demonstrating the reach and outreach of its participants, NGFFL plans to showcase how corporate donations and support make good sense for business. Philanthropic support of community athletic and sports programs has long been a part of the American way of life. Competition for those resources is high and NGFFL is committed to demonstrating their community involvement and impact for those resources. In the past, NGFFL has been successful in growing their membership and partners and currently has 18 member cities and 16 new cities with developing leagues in them. In less than 10 years, NGFFL has demonstrated its community outreach and strong program to attract such a significant and loyal following. While only formally incorporated in 2010, NGFFL has had a far reaching and civic centered impact in all of the communities it operates in. Tools and methodologies: As part of our philanthropic program, we occasionally request support with these various tools. We solicit support through mail, phone, email and personal contact from interested parties who support our inclusive mission. We have a web-site and supporters are welcome to contact us and contribute through that means also. While it is currently not planned, we could develop a program to seek support from private foundations through grant writing.

P.6. Part VIII. 4d. Jurisdiction NGFFL is organized in Florida. They will conduct all of their own fund raising activities and those activities will be centered in the communities where the league has teams who participate in their league. P.7. Part VIII 11. Contributions accepted The agency will accept all unrestricted contributions of real and or personal property if the property is given without any qualifications as to use or period of retention and/or

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ownership. The agency would sell any donated property or other assets and use the proceeds to continue, enhance and improve their program offerings. If, for example, someone wanted to make a donation of a building or other type of real property that could serve as the new home for the agency, they would consider accepting the contribution, even if it were restricted in use or time.