FIRST SERVE CHILDREN
A Campaign for a New Arthur Ashe Youth Tennis Center

JUNE 2006 - Thanks to our many wonderful supporters, the NEW Arthur Ashe Youth Tennis and Education Center is now a reality! The expanded facility has been built, the staff moved in and an NJTL site is currently up and running on our outdoor courts. See for yourself!

Welcome to the New Ashe Center!	Main entrance to our building

Our June 16th Ribbon-Cutting

Ashe Board Chair Bob Swift addresses our special guests.	Comcast SportsNet Host/Anchor Michael Barkann, our emcee (and Ashe Board member), introduces guests State Rep. Dwight Evans, Board Chair Bob Swift, Advisory Board member Letitia Biddle, State Rep. Kathy Manderino and City Councilman Michael Nutter. The ceremony took place in front of the sculpture by Steve Tobin commemorating Arthur Ashe.

State Rep. Dwight Evans, State Rep. Kathy Manderino, First Serve Chair Christine Beck, Ashe Board Chair Bob Swift, Jeanne Moutoussamy-Ashe and City Councilman Michael Nutter cut the official ribbon!	Jeanne Ashe and Chris Beck catch up during the post-ceremony reception inside the New Ashe Center.

To read the Case Statement for the First Serve Children campaign, please click here.

AUGUST 2005 - Steel has been delivered and beams are rising from the ground! Construction on the site is progressing well and some of our young people came to visit before the summer ended.

The NEW Ashe Center is starting to take shape!	A group of our young people with some of our pros celebrate the progress of the construction.

December 2004 - Construction has begun on the NEW Arthur Ashe Youth Tennis and Education Center. Thank you to all of our supporters and donors for helping to make this dream a reality! For more information, please click here: 2004-New AAYTE Center

In the spirit of the late Arthur Ashe, and with the goal of positively impacting the lives of ever more children through the lifetime sport of tennis, Arthur Ashe Youth Tennis & Education™ (formerly known as as Philadelphia Youth Tennis) invites you to support the First Serve Children Campaign to raise $11 million for a new indoor/outdoor Arthur Ashe Youth Tennis Center.

"I'd like to see it expanded...more of the same would be my suggestion."
--Arthur Ashe

Broadcaster Mary Carillo, Campaign Chair Chris Beck, Ashe Chair Bob Swift & US Senator Rick Santorum at dedication of new Gustine Lake site.	Bob Swift gives Senator Santorum a personal tour of our new destination.
Chris Beck, Representative Daylin Leach, Bob Swift, Councilman Michael Nutter, Representative Kathy Manderino, Senator Santorum, Mary Carillo, Bud Collins & tennis legend Tony Trabert stand by to break ground.