Dear Supporters:

Thanks for your time and support of “The 5 Rights Football Club: Local. Sustainable. Soccer.”

Soccer has been the center of my athletic, social, and cultural life since I was 4 years old.  Through my experience as a youth, college, pro, and “Over-The-Hill-League” soccer player, I have been exposed to an array of cultures, countries and conditions.  What are the two constants?  Humans and soccer.  Soccer is a universal human communications pathway.  Water, food, health, housing and education are universal human needs.

“The 5 Rights Football Club: Local. Sustainable. Soccer.” enables college soccer players, coaches and supporters to address water, food, health, housing and education needs in communities throughout the USA.

As a college soccer player, I would have jumped at the opportunity to join The 5 Rights Football Club.  However, I graduated from Colgate University in 1998, and found 5 Rights Inc the week of December 10, 2006.

During the first 5 years, I asked 5 Rights Directors and Advisors for their time and support.  In exchange, I promised to produce 20 years of hard work.  It took 2.5 years to lay the foundation of 5 Rights Inc.  Then, it took 2.5 years to develop The 5 Rights Football Club.

How?  Simple.  I car-camped with my 120-lb. dog, Brodie, in a Toyota Prius for 100,000 miles (2500 accompanied by blizzards, tornadoes, and electrical flash-floods).  In addition to the car-camping, 5 Rights built relationships with college soccer players, coaches and supporters at approximately 100 colleges and universities across the USA.

Each year, students may intern with 5 Rights FC from anywhere, at anytime, throughout all four seasons of the year.  In association with our summer residency program, 5 Rights will enter teams in the United Soccer Leagues’ Under-21 Divisions.  Playing as, “The 5 Rights Football Club,” we will pilot in Boston, expand to 25 cities from 2013-2020, produce 1 men’s and 1 women’s professional team in 2025, and always enable players, coaches and supporters to address water, food, health, housing and education needs in communities throughout the USA.

The 5 Rights Board Members and I have held up our end of the bargain.  Now we ask for your time and support…..

Please do 5 Things for 5 Rights FC:

1. Website: Check out www.5RFC.org…..

2. Facebook: “Like” 5 Rights FC on Facebook…..

3. Twitter: Join 5 Rights FC on Twitter…..

4. Contact: Email with questions, comments, ideas, and to set-up a 15-minute call…..

5. Donate:  The long-term goal is to cover the 2013-2020, 25-city expansion’s one-time cash-need of $1,500,000. (Please note: If you are an NCAA College Soccer Coach or Player, 5 Rights does NOT want your financial assistance).  Click to donate $5R’s…..

Thanks for your time and support!

Very much appreciated,

Lip

Jeff Lipman
Executive Director
The 5 Rights Football Club:
Local. Sustainable. Soccer.