CityMD Signs On As MVP Basketball Camp Sponsor

If you’ve lived in White Plains or surrounding areas for a while, you’ve probably seen children wearing many different color variations of MVP Basketball Camp’s t-shirts. The camp celebrated its 20th season last year with proclamations from both the City of White Plains and the County of Westchester acknowledging the youth services that MVP has provided. What makes MVP truly unique is that more than 30% of the 1,000 campers each summer pay no tuition for a full week under the umbrella of MVP’s scholarship program.

CityMD urgent care arrived in White Plains in October with a new location at 222 Mamaroneck Ave., providing convenient and quality urgent care. They immediately sought to form partnerships to benefit the community with local non-profits that had similar values. Kids wearing MVP Basketball Camp’s colorful shirts caught their eye. After a conversation between leadership in the two organizations, CityMD made a pledge to donate $5,600 to MVP Basketball Camp’s Youth Development Scholarship program, plus allocated an extra $3,400 to reduce the cost of the 2000 t-shirts that MVP gives to campers each summer.

Big changes are in store for MVP in 2015. Camp begins with two full weeks starting on June 29 at the Fox Lane Middle School and High School complex in Bedford. For the first time MVP will feature its 6 – 8 year old co-ed program and its program for older girls at this Bedford location, in addition to three age groups for boys ages 9 – 16.

Then when MVP returns to White Plains on July 13 for four separate one-week sessions, the camp will use to new venues to host its programs for boys and girls ages 6 – 16, Ebersole arena at Delfino Park and the Rochambeau School. The great news is that MVP will have a more personalized camper focus than ever as it restricts the total number of campers it can accommodate at these two facilities. The bad news is that programs will probably sell out early due to the lower overall program numbers that these facilities can accommodate. Online registration is available now and should stay open until at least the end of April, even for the most popular age groups.

The grant from CityMD will be extremely important in helping ensure that MVP can still offer scholarships to more than 30% of all campers in a year when they’ve had to find these alternative locations to their usual White Plains facility, which is being remodeled. Scholarships are based on financial need as well as performance in school. Any family that is struggling to pay the bills can apply. Many past scholarships have been granted to children through social services agencies like the Coachman Family Center, the Theodore D. Young Center, the Carver Center, and the Boys and Girls Club of Mount Vernon.

MVP is more than just a basketball camp. It’s a place where children from all socio-economic backgrounds learn respect, fair play, determination, and hard work. Lowes Moore, former NBA player and Executive Director of the Boys and Girls Club, has this to say about MVP.

“The kids who have gone to MVP wear their t-shirts all the time and talk about going back throughout the school year. And even without their shirts, these kids are easy to spot because going to MVP has changed them. They interact more easily with others and take instruction better.”

Ping Pong Madness Fundraiser
On the evening of Friday, March 20 MVP’s Board of Directors and Junior Board will host their fourth annual Ping Pong Madness family night, an evening of games, food and drink at the Westchester Table Tennis Center in Pleasantville, NY. All benefits fund camp scholarships. Tickets can be purchased on-line or at the door the night of the event.

Come meet New York Times crossword puzzle editor and ping pong aficionado Will Shortz. There are loads of tables where you can play ping pong all evening, or if you prefer you can drink and dine while enjoying televised first round games of the NCAA March Madness basketball tournament. The event will feature lots of raffle prizes plus great silent auction items including basketball memorabilia from Steiner Sports. Children can enjoy a magician and plenty of other structured activities including a ping pong tournament just for kids.

About MVP Basketball Camp
Stan Greene founded MVP Basketball Camp in 1994 with the dream that no child would ever be turned away due to an inability to pay. Stan passed away in December of 2009 and is survived by his wife Gingie Greene, a White Plains, NY resident who serves on MVP’s Board of Directors.

Stan’s legacy is a basketball camp that has awarded over 5,000 scholarships since inception to economically disadvantaged children, plus scholarship awards to numerous children with a family member serving in the armed forces through MVP’s “Hoops for Troops” program. Last year MVP awarded 339 full-week scholarships.

For more information call Executive Director Noel Muyskens at 914-946-1231. You can support MVP’s mission by making an on-line tax deductible donation at www.mvpbasketballcamp/community.

About CityMD
Founded in 2010, CityMD has expanded to over 30 locations throughout New York. CityMD employs expert staff including medical assistants and technicians along with nationally recognized, board-certified physicians who are highly trained in treating a wide variety of illnesses and injuries. CityMD locations are open 365 days a year, welcome walk-ins for both adult and pediatric care and accept most major health insurances.

CityMD is New York’s premier urgent care provider, always Putting Patients First.

For more information about CityMD and a list of locations, please visit www.citymd.com