Right to Play
RIGHT TO PLAY is an athlete-driven international organization that uses sport and play to promote opportunities for development, health, and peace of children and youth in the most disadvantaged areas of the world. In everything they do, they emphasize the best values of sport and organization values — optimism, respect, compassion, courage, leadership, inspiration and joy.
The support of an international team Olympic and professional athletes inspires children and helps raise awareness of the humanitarian potential of sport at both the local and international levels. Wayne Gretzky, Silken Laumann, and Ian Thorpe are among these ambasadors.

Girls at Play
A few years ago, Anna Levesque recognized a ned within the kayaking industry to somehow draw more women into the sport. She jumped on this opportunity by creating instructional videos and by offering kayaking instruction and developing trips around the world specifically designed for women. Filling this niche has allowed Anna to make a smooth transition from professional athlete to successful entrepreneur.

Soft Power Health
Jesie Stone is a MD who graduated from New York Medical College. Besides running Soft Power Health, she is a professional whitewater kayaker and world traveler.

Soft Power Health is a U.S. based non-profit (501 c3 status pending) organizaion that has two main components: the inner city Kids Kayaking Camp that originates from New York City begun in August of 2001 and the Ugandan project which was started in 2004 that provides education, prevention, and treatment of Malaria in rural Uganda.