The Freeport Red Ravens Sports and Academics Club Inc. has as its primary purpose to encourage community youth to strive for excellence in social, academic and economic interactions. We target thety surrounding communities of Freeport, Roosevelt, Uniondale, Baldwin, Oceanside, Long Beach, Merrick, Rockville Centre, Lynbrook, and Hempstead, in Nassau County, New York.

The focus of our strategy revolves around interactions that take place in sports activities. These involve developing teamwork, positive reinforcement of character and cooperative values. The discipline with which some sports are noted is also beneficial to those who participate in our activities. We also stress academic acheivement above the sports. With the recent challenges faced by our youth in the various school districts, this becomes extremely important part of our programming.

We recruit volunteers and parents to help us to reach as many of the youth as possible. The leaders of the communities included politicians, clergy and advocate groups are a crucial part of the outreach that's necessary to our success. The economic challenges of the past couple of years have impacted our communities in ways that are more critical than other established and stable areas. This forces organizations such as ours to work even harder to mae sure the youth do not "fall through the cracks", and provides them with the tools to ensure that they have a better shot at excelling in their chosen endeavors.