Fencers Club is a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization dedicated to promoting excellence through the sport of fencing. We actively support a culture of sharing by performing community services that extend beyond fencing.

Highlights from 2014 Fencers Club Programs:

Fencers Club Foundations for Excellence: Partner School Spotlight on SIMBA Academy • Competitive Athlete Support For the 2014-15 school year, • FC Scholarship Fencers Club is partnering • Day Camp with the Safe in My Brothers’ Arms (“SIMBA”) Academy. • Training Camps Based in , this • High Performance Program program provides in-school • Saturday Enrichment Fencing and after school support for high school male • Volunteerism/Internship Opportunities students who are currently temporarily housed or homeless. One of our elite athlete School Featured Programs: Coaches teaches fencing sessions each Saturday, imparting the character building values, FIE-Fencers Club Coaching Development Program discipline and strategic thinking that are integral to the sport and that can help them achieve their goals both on and off the fencing strip. This program is funded by the Research Foundation of SUNY-Farmingdale State College. As the US representative club for the International Fencing Federation’s (FIE) Clubs Congratulations to our USA Fencing Hall of Movement Initiative, Fencers Club launched its Fame Inductees! first coaching development program this • Robert Cottingham (Olympian, PWF/FC) November. Coaches from Central and South • Simon Gershon (US Olympic Coach) America came to for a month to train • Buckie Leach (US Olympic Coach) with our world-class coaches, elite athletes and • Ivan Lee (Olympian, PWF/FC) Partner School students. This Initiative is • James Melcher (Olympian) funded by the FIE and will include competitive • Capt. Hippolyte Nicholas (First FC Coach) athlete and referee training sessions in 2015. • Erinn Smart (Olympic Silver Medalist, PWF/FC) • (Olympic Silver Medalist, PWF/FC) FC Military Veterans Fencing Program • Ed Vebell (Olympian & World Cup Medalist) Just over a year old, our Military Veterans fencing program has Reminder about Year-End Giving served more than 50 Veterans As a 501(c)3 non-profit, Fencers and Active Duty personnel from Club depends on generous all branches of the Armed Forces, donations from our members to with service records spanning sustain and enhance our successful from World War 2 to Iraq and Afghanistan. programs while promoting Veterans come to Fencers Club twice per week excellence through fencing. We for fencing instruction from Military Coach and invite you to visit our “Donate Now” page at fellow Veteran, Slava Zingerman. This www.fencersclub.org/donate for detailed, groundbreaking program promotes physical easy to follow information about how you can fitness and emotional well-being with the goal help Fencers Club continue our impactful work of integrating Veterans and Active Duty throughout the fencing community. Thank you. servicemen and women into our diverse fencing Giving Levels: community. The program is funded in part by 1883 Society $50,000 & above Leaders $20,000 & above Benefactors $10,000 & above Gold Members $5,000 & above the US Olympic Committee, US Paralympics, US Silver Members $2,000 & above Bronze Members $1,000 & above Dept. of Veterans Affairs and private donations. Supporters $500 & above Friends $100 & above