The DAE Foundation's mission is to: educate and train student-athletes to be skilled, effective and responsible citizens of their communities; focus on the development of student-athletes by providing programs designed to adequately prepare them for the
rigors of athletics and academics; remove impediments to progress by training across gender,cultural and socioeconomic backgrounds; and employ services and support from providers that share in our vision to positively impact youth.

Description:
We recognize that developing student-athletes have an array of needs that must be addressed in order to achieve success. DAE addresses those needs in a holistic manner, combining innovative basketball skills training with an emphasis on moral character, academic progress, and the overall physical and mental wellbeing of the student-athlete.

The DAE Foundation’s core programs include Basketball Basics 101, an introduction to basketball skills development; recreational league team sponsorship, a supplemental program for established teams; and AAU/YBOA teams, DAE teams that train together and travel the region to participate in elite levels of competition. DAE also hosts basketball clinics, shooting and ball-handling camps, college prep seminars, skills challenges, and three-on-three tournaments. All of these programs are offered currently, and have been offered since DAE’s establishment in 2005. DAE plans to continue offering these programs in the future, expanding and altering them to respond to the community’s needs and the plans of collaborative efforts.

Although these programs could have been developed through a for-profit, fees based organization; many student-athletes who could benefit greatly from the programs would be unable to participate due to lack of ability to pay. The DAE Foundation wants to reach student-athletes across all barriers, believing that lack of funding should not translate into lack of opportunity. Accordingly, DAE has been created to provide these programs for student-athletes without regard to their ability to pay. DAE has been aggressively seeking donors and grants in order to provide these programs to student- athletes at no charge, and is hopeful that funding will be more accessible as a 501(c)(3) organization.

History:
DAE was founded in 2004 by Jermel President, a successful basketball player who played for Burke High School, the College of Charleston and several professional leagues in the US.
President founded DAE after reflecting on his past and the stumbling blocks he encountered as a rising student-athlete, in an attempt to foster the progress of developing student-athletes.

Contact people:

Kristin Bailey, Assistant to the President, (phone), (email) James Leung, Operations Manager, (phone), (email)

Address:

PO Box 21994 Charleston , SC 29413

Web Site: http://www.daefoundation.org