The Cincinnati Reds Community Fund works to help both boys and girls, both on and off the diamond, both in and out of the baseball season. Their design is to leverage the tradition of the Reds to make the lives of youths better. There is little doubt that they have done just that.
Recently, 33 of the participants from their Reviving Baseball in Inner Cities (RBI) program and the P&G MLB Urban Youth Academy got together to announce their college decisions. Of those 33, an amazing 14 are going on to play baseball or softball in college.
The underlining win here is that they are graduated high school, which isn’t a given in urban Cincinnati.