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Youth programs after-school: a. dsc continued to run high school and middle school after-school programs during the spring, fall and winter, and college interns and high school scullers helped out with sample Sculling sessions as well as summer camps for youth interested in learning to scull. B. The capstone of the fall program was a scrimmage, mixing masters and youth scullers. C. dsc arranged a field trip for our youth athletes to stanford to see races between stanford and cal and to visit the stanford boathouse and campus. D. a former british olympic rower was hired throughout the academic year to provide coaching assistance to youth coaches and interns via zoom meetings from europe. E. dsc carried out a youth coaching development program through a grant from the reinvent stockton foundation. The aim is to develop home-grown coaches to teach Sculling to youth in our area. F. agreements were made with a local charter school to re-establish (in winter/spring 2024) a weekly after-school rowing team program. Erg ed (in-school indoor rowing) continued in pe and other classes in local middle and high schools, where teachers trained by dsc coaches taught indoor rowing to approximately 800 middle and high school students. One of those schools arranged 4 weekend visits to dsc's boathouse, where 6 young women learned to scull in boats on the water. Sample Sculling sessions and summer camps were well attended, yielding a few rowers for dsc's academic year after-school programs. Adult programs dsc's masters program continues to expand, yielding a few novice scullers from each of a few sample Sculling sessions followed by introduction to Sculling programs. Oarbusters (for civilians who are differently abled) added a new para-rower with partial paralysis caused by an spinal fracture and two other older rowers with physical challenges. Freedom rows (for military veterans with disabilities) continued with support from a grant from usrowing & the veterans association, adding two new scullers and bringing back another whose injuries kept him from participating the past few years. Wounded warriors: dsc hosted two events feb. 23rd that allowed 12 military veterans to experience rowing on ergometers (rowing machines), then in boats on the water followed by a yoga class. Three special extra sessions in the spring and summer enabled two wounded warriors from 2 1/2-3 1/2 hours away (and who required adaptations to ergometers and boats) to row on land as well as on the water. Regattas our youth participated in three indoor rowing championships in january and february and in three spring regattas (in san francisco, oakland and at the usrowing southwest youth championships in gold river, ca). Dsc's masters competed in spring regattas in oakland and in gold river and another in san francisco in the summer. Bayada regatta: two of dsc's para-rowers earned medals at this national regatta for para-rowers in philadelphia, one of whom was awarded the leo riley award fro her "outstanding spirit and determination" as a rower. Masters, youth and para-rowers in dsc's programs competed in 5 km races in two fall regattas, head of the port and head of the american, both in october in sacramento. Grants and virtual fundraisers dsc received a few grants, resulting in a) the purchase of a new coach boat and a shipping container to house Sculling boats and equipment we need space for, b) construction of an office space in a shed at the marina where we store our rowing boats, c) providing stipends for our youth coaching development program, and d) expanding organizational capacity to match demand for our programs. 209 gives virtual fundraiser for non-profits: in the spring, dsc won prizes the second year in a row for largest number of unique donors, most dollars raised for a medium-sized organization, and for most dollars raised by any organization. We also had a successful giving tuesday fundraiser in november, surpassing our goal. Community outreach on jan. 4th, dsc's junior athletes began the year by volunteering at the black urban farmers association. They harvested vegetables, weeded, and fed and pet goats. Earth day: in april, juniors and masters had a booth geared to environmental education at a downtown earth day event. We also taught the public how to row on ergometers. Ymca of san joaquin county healthy kids day: youth coaches set up a table at this april event. Delta aquatic Center: having successfully spearheaded an initiative to plan for an aquatic Center to make all types of human-powered watercraft accessible to the public, dsc leaders got together with the san joaquin community foundation to write and attain a three-year 2.5 million planning grant from the sacramento-san joaquin Delta conservancy. Continuing education safesport training to comply with usrowing policy was required of all coaches and board members involved with our rowers. Volunteers and staff completed their cpr/aed/first aid recertification training. Two interns from the youth coaching development program grant earned their ca boating licenses, and one passed his usrowing level 2 coaching certification course. A most beautiful thing: dsc was asked to join a cohort of teachers from around the country who are dedicated to making the sport of rowing more inclusive. Our coaches attended monthly meetings with that cohort. Our coaches and coaching interns also attend usrowing and other online webinars on coaching and rowing, and some have benefited from working via zoom with a former british olympic rower who is a coaching consultant for our after-school youth program.