Give hope a field

Why your gift matters

The land can be the town’s or a private owner’s. What most places don’t have is a way to rebuild a worn-out field, make it usable, and keep it affordable.

Your gift helps us:

• Rebuild and improve accessible community fields — simple places kids can actually get to, on town or private land
• Keep programming open so cost is not the reason a kid sits out
• Walk a community through a real plan (what to build, who uses it in a 3 / 5 / 15 mile look, who pays to keep it open) before anyone breaks ground

We do not claim finished fields we have not built. The first gifts go to standing up a real donate path, the first town packets, and the work that gets a field from talk to dirt.

What we will not do with a gift

Your donation stays with the foundation. It is not a payment to any private sports complex.

A field can stay town-owned or privately owned. A site-management company is to be formed; it is not operating today. That future company is not this charity.

How to give (live today)

Online giving

Coming. We will not put a fake button on this page. When the processor is live, this section becomes the donate form.

Until then, checks and a confirmed wire are the only official path. Do not use third-party “donate” buttons on Charity Navigator or GuideStar. Those profiles are still under the old name and are not ours.

Talk first

If you want a 30-minute intro before you give, book a call or email Ryan.

In memory of Essie

Esperanza “Essie” Avalos Spilborghs died February 27, 2009. She signed her son Ryan up for baseball because of Fernando Valenzuela. The family took care of the fields their kids played on. This foundation is named for her.