Impact Sailing Foundation
Open the door to sailing.
Your gift funds free, hands-on sailing education for youth and adults, especially those who’ve never had a way onto the water, from a first sail to skills that can shape a future.
Impact Sailing Foundation
Your gift funds free, hands-on sailing education for youth and adults, especially those who’ve never had a way onto the water, from a first sail to skills that can shape a future.
More people ask to sail every week than can afford to. Your gift closes that gap: it pays for program sessions, coaching, and training for eligible underserved community members who couldn’t otherwise take part.
Choose an amount, or enter your own.
Every gift, at any level, supports funded places for eligible participants — program sessions, coaching, and training. The examples above are about scale, not earmarks. Monthly giving and covering the processing fee are both options in the form.
Multi-year commitments and foundation or corporate support. Email Shane or call 443-615-4413.
Payable to Spectrum Sailing, memo Crew Connect Racing. Mail to Spectrum Sailing, PO Box 1111, Isle of Palms, SC 29451. No processing fee.
Many employers match charitable gifts. Your receipt from Spectrum Sailing is what they need.
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What your gift supports: Today, gifts go only to the Crew Connect Racing Fund, held and controlled by Spectrum Sailing, a 501(c)(3). The fund supports sailing education, free to eligible participants without access to the sport: coached instruction, classroom and boat systems training, sailing events, and a pathway to certifications and careers — the kind of training described in our Offshore & Keelboat program. It was founded to become Impact Sailing Foundation’s first program.
Your gift is made to Spectrum Sailing, Inc., a 501(c)(3), as fiscal sponsor of Crew Connect Racing, and is held in the restricted Crew Connect Racing Fund. Spectrum has final discretion and control over all gifts, issues your tax receipt, and retains an administrative fee.
Gifts pay for program sessions, coaching, and training for eligible underserved community members — never for passage. Eligible participants pay nothing.
Best Boating Annapolis (Best Boating Supplies LLC), a for-profit company owned by Impact founder Shane Kilberg, is the program’s operator under the sponsorship agreement. Best Boating can be paid only under a separate services agreement approved in advance by Spectrum’s disinterested board, based on documented rate comparisons; Shane takes no part in approving or paying Best Boating. Other qualified providers may be engaged as the program grows. Crew Connect, Best Boating’s crew-matching service, is separate and not part of the charitable program.
The program was founded to become Impact Sailing Foundation’s first program. Impact plans to apply for 501(c)(3) recognition. Once recognized, the program and its remaining funds are expected to transfer from Spectrum to Impact — or, if that isn’t possible, to another 501(c)(3) with a similar charitable purpose, as the sponsorship agreement provides.
By giving, you acknowledge these terms. Questions: impactsailingfoundation@gmail.com
Every gift is received by Spectrum Sailing, a 501(c)(3) that runs free sailing camps for autistic kids and adults — our charitable home and a cause we support — and designated to Crew Connect Racing. Spectrum issues your tax receipt.
Questions? impactsailingfoundation@gmail.com · 443-615-4413