{"id":92,"date":"2013-02-14T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2013-02-14T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.playworks.org\/northern-california\/2013\/02\/14\/leadership-and-sports-inspire-couple-to-partner-with-playworks\/"},"modified":"2018-12-14T13:29:18","modified_gmt":"2018-12-14T21:29:18","slug":"leadership-and-sports-inspire-couple-to-partner-with-playworks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.playworks.org\/northern-california\/2013\/02\/14\/leadership-and-sports-inspire-couple-to-partner-with-playworks\/","title":{"rendered":"Leadership and Sports Inspire Couple to Partner with Playworks"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"media-element file-media-original\" style=\"width: 223px; height: 320px; margin: 5px; float: right;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.playworks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2017\/09\/dick-and-lisa-cashin_0.jpg\" width=\"223\" height=\"320\" data-original=\"{&quot;fid&quot;:&quot;2962&quot;,&quot;view_mode&quot;:&quot;media_original&quot;,&quot;type&quot;:&quot;media&quot;,&quot;attributes&quot;:{&quot;height&quot;:320,&quot;width&quot;:223,&quot;style&quot;:&quot;width: 223px; height: 320px; margin: 5px; float: right;&quot;,&quot;class&quot;:&quot;media-element file-media-original&quot;}}\" \/>Dick and Lisa Cashin have a long history of investing in sports, kids and hard hit urban communities. \u00a0And now they\u2019ve carried that over to the East Bay as Honorary Coaches partnered with Richmond\u2019s Sheldon Elementary.<\/p>\n<p>After a legendary rowing career at Harvard, Dick, CEO of One Equity in New York City, went on to win a world championship medal, and represented the US on the 1976 and 1980 Olympic Rowing Teams. \u00a0He is still a dedicated athlete, involved in sports governance and donates significantly to create opportunities for youth to participate in sport at every level \u00a0&#8211; from elementary school to the Olympics.<\/p>\n<p>Dick\u2019s \u00a0philosophy is that \u201csports give three gifts\u201d :<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>They show you your strengths and weaknesses and make you harder to beat;<\/li>\n<li>They tell you about your friends-Who is loyal, dependable, tough minded, or not, and you end up loving them all anyway<\/li>\n<li>They make you part of a community of people who understand that there are standards that we all have to live up to<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Lisa Cashin\u2019s Harvard senior thesis on Boston\u2019s South End may have been the seed that led to her career redeveloping blighted urban communities as Director of New York City based LISC \u2013 Local Initiatives Support Corporation. \u00a0 In addition, as President of the Board of Trustees for Prep for Prep also in New York City, she is actively invested in cultivating opportunities and leaders among at risk youth. \u00a0 Playworks\u2019 powerful Junior Coach Leadership Program, caught Lisa\u2019s attention.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe earlier we can teach and inspire kids to be leaders the better it is for our communities,\u201d she says. \u201cPlayworks gives kids the tools, training and opportunity to own the change at their schools. \u00a0It\u2019s exciting to see big kids facilitating games and resolving conflicts among the younger students.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Playworks Coach Laura Kocourek was thrilled to hear the Cashins have invested in Playworks and are Honorary Coaches for Sheldon. \u00a0It was especially sweet since she rowed crew at St. Mary\u2019s College in California and continues to coach her alma mater at the end of a long day with her Sheldon kids.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dick and Lisa Cashin have a long history of investing in sports, kids and hard hit urban communities. \u00a0And now they\u2019ve carried that over to the East Bay as Honorary [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":33,"featured_media":2689,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"region":[],"class_list":["post-92","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-updates"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.0 - 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