The Milford Youth Center staff and Youth Commission would like to extend a huge thank you to New Human – Online Fitness Platform for hosting a fundraiser for the Milford Youth Center! New Human is a fitness business, created in 2019 by Milford Alum Michael Soares, whose mission is to help people live healthier & happier lives, all while helping others as well!
Mike, along with Aaron Anniballi and Dimitry Torres, all past Youth Center members in their middle school years, met with Director Jen Ward to see if they could put together a fundraiser to give back to a place that they grew up going to! They created a one day fitness event with four socially distanced classes including a yoga class, two bodyweight workouts, & a basketball skills and drills camp! All the proceeds of the events came back to the Center, along with a percentage of jersey sales of their New Human merchandise and from a GoFundMe account they created! 
What started as a $5,000 goal led to almost $7,000 raised by New Human and the community! We want to extend our gratitude to all the participants of the fitness classes and to everyone who donated towards the cause! We even had some special guests drop by on the day of the event to drop off generous donations, including Sam Hanna and Coach Manguso! Finally, we would also like to thank the New Human instructors who ran classes and volunteered including Allie Strattner, Steven Soares, Danielle Ferreira, Sam Naylor, Anelise Pena, Aaron Anniballi, Dimitry Torres and of course Mike Soares. Also, thank you for these amazing photos from @Matt Schmalenberger and coming soon a video recap from Jon Azize! For more photos of the event, click here.