Texas Youth Foundation

View photos from the 2007 Thanksgiving Keystone Trip

In today’s world of increasing childhood obesity, the TSC Youth Foundation was created to help promote family exercise in the winter months. By partnering with resorts in the ski industry the TSCYF also promotes the family unit by requiring that the children attend with adult family members. The Texas Ski Council through their individual club delegates voted in August 2004 to create a Youth Foundation.  The Texas Ski Council Youth Foundation was established and received $10,000 seed money from the TSC.  With this seed money the Foundation has created ongoing programs to assist families with transportation expenses while the resorts provide discounted lessons. This money will provide the opportunity for children from all socio-economic levels to experience winter sports in a family setting. The first expenditures from the Youth Foundation were for the TSC Fall Roundup November 22-27, 2005, during the Thanksgiving Holiday.

The Texas Ski Council Youth Program’s first year was a great success.  The Youth Program introduced snow sports to 37 enthusiastic kids and their parents.  In the first year of the Program the TSC provided the initial funding which allowed us to offer a 4-day youth package for less than $200 and to subsidize the transportation cost of each participant by $100.  Now that the Youth Foundation has been granted a 501(c)(3) Non Profit Deductible status by the IRS we hope to raise enough funds each year to continue to assist with transportation costs as well as to subsidize the rising cost of the lessons.

During the ski season of 2006-2007 the TSCYF took 63 children to the youth camp held at Breckenridge over the Thanksgiving period. During the Thanksgiving 2007 trip we took 83 kids back to Keystone for the final year of the current resort contract. Those 83 kids in the youth camp do not include the other children traveling with the TSC. We had over 100 children participate in the 2007 Thanksgiving trip at Keystone!