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Summer 2017 Newsletter
Upcoming Events
 Many Thanks for ClearShark for choosing us as their charity partner for the 2017 Dock Bar Party!
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 Golfing FORE! 4th Annual Autism
 Tournament
September 11th
Mountain Branch Golf Club
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Lifeline 100 Ride
Saturday, Oct 1st
KinderFarm Park
This is an event for the whole family!  Join the RISE for Autism Team!

Choose a 1 mile fun ride, 15 or 30 mile trail ride, or for the more experienced riders, join the 65 or 100 mile ride.
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SAVE THE DATE
November 17th
Designer Bag Bingo


Dear Friends,

We hope you are enjoying your summer! We worked so hard to bring you the best spring ever with parent workshops, BE SAFE training, our Annual Health and Safety Fair, and PALS presentations. We are so grateful to all the volunteers, participants, and sponsors who worked just as hard to support us in our Designer Bag Bingo, Greene Turtle Funds with Friends Night, and Annual Golf Tournament!

We hosted our Second Annual iCan! Shine Bike Camp and experienced more success than we could have imagined!  We will soon be riding 100 miles from Baltimore to Dewey Beach with our largest team yet.  And we are MOST excited to announce we are moving even closer to opening our center based programs - STAY TUNED!
 
As always, we continue our fundraising efforts to realize each of our mission areas.   We have big plans for the rest of this year and we rely on the generosity of the community to make our dreams of supporting individuals with Autism and their families a reality!   We make it a point not to solicit funds from families impacted by Autism for these programs, but just hope you will spread the word about our events! All fundraising stays LOCAL and directly supports our initiatives. 

~RISE for Autism Board of Directors

Program Updates
BE SAFE the Movie

We had a wonderful event with our partner ARI and were able to create a wonderful community of self-advocates and police officers.  Many thanks to the Anne Arundel and Annapolis officers!
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Our PALS program is growing! We were thrilled to spread awareness to more schools this year! 
Annapolis High
Crofton Elem.
Crofton Woods Elem.
Pasadena Elem.
South Shore Elem.
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iCan! Shine
Bike Camp  2017
 Camp  was a HUGE success! Many thanks to all the iCan! Shine staff, campers, parents, volunteers, and sponsors! 
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Grant Program
2017
We were able to award 31 grants this year.  While we couldn't meet the needs of all our applicants - we were happy to be able to help these 31 families!

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