Creating happy, healthy, active and literate kids across the communities we serve since 2009.

We leverage the fun of kid-sized tennis to engage kids and get them moving, eating healthy and loving to read.

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BrightSTARS preschoolers with Racquets for Reading!!!
books at Charles City Elementary School.

Our Campaigns &
Initiatives

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Imagination Library

We are volunteer advocates for thepremier early childhood literacy program in the country.

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BrightSTARS Tennis

Our innovative tennis and healthy eating immersion format for preschoolers


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Racquets for Reading!!!

We provide funds for Scholastic book grants to teachers in schools with low school readiness scores.


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Go Bananas for QuickStart!

Our healthy eating campaign uses tennis players as nutritional role models for kids.


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Jump Start QuickStart

We've trained 2,000+ to teach using the QuickStart format and equipped 260 schools with 119,000 students.

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QuickSTARS

QuickStart  kids grow up to be QuickSTARS and we support their competitive play.

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