Hope Floats Foundation

Hope Floats Foundation Swim lesson scholarships - local funds for local kids! DID YOU KNOW that Drowning is the Leading Cause of Accidental Death for Ages 5 & Under?
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A child dies from drowning every minute across the globe. It’s the silent epidemic that no one is talking about. The absolute blessing here is that drowning is preventable. Through pooling our resources and connecting underserved children with providers who can help educate families how to keep their children safe and who can give children the ability to save their own lives through learning to sw

im, community by community, we can reverse the tide of child drownings worldwide. Hope Floats is the vehicle through which ordinary people and businesses can pool together to do something extraordinary: Save the lives of children across the globe by giving them the life-saving skill of swimming. Hope Floats raises money by partnering with individuals, just like yourself, and businesses that want to do good works in their community. That money is used to give scholarships and tuition assistance to underprivileged children who might not otherwise be able to afford swim lessons. How Can I Help?
* Take Action by Making a Donation! Your donation will stay close to your community to make a difference.
* Are You a Business Owner? Partner with Hope Floats to show your community and your clients how much you care.
* Are You a Swim Lessons Provider? Help us give qualified scholarship recipients the life saving gift of swimming.

* Drowning is the Leading Cause of Accidental Death in the U.S. for Ages 5 & Under
* Drowning is the 2nd Leading Cause of Accidental Death in the U.S. for Ages 14 & Under
* Participation in formal swim lessons reduces risk of drowning by 88%! (National Institute of Health, Arch Pediatr Adolesc Med, 2009)
* According to Griffith University research (2013), young children who participate in swim lessons at an early age are:
* 20 months ahead in understanding directions
* 17 months ahead in story recall
* 10 months ahead in cognitive skills
* 7 months ahead in fine motor skills

You can make a difference. Your donation allows us to teach a child to save their own life. Could there be a bigger blessing than that?

Kinda chic to be a non- profit 😎
08/14/2026

Kinda chic to be a non- profit 😎

At Hope Floats Foundation, we believe no child should inherit the fear of water.When a parent never learned to swim, the...
08/11/2026

At Hope Floats Foundation, we believe no child should inherit the fear of water.

When a parent never learned to swim, the odds stack against their child before they ever reach the water’s edge. Research from the USA Swimming Foundation points to a hard truth: in households without a swimming adult, a child has only about a 13–19% chance of learning to swim themselves. Fear, and the danger that comes with it, gets passed down from one generation to the next.

But this cycle isn’t unbreakable. It’s just underfunded.

Your gift gives a child 12 weeks of swim lessons with a qualified Instructor, often the first person in their family to truly learn. It turns a parent’s “I never learned” into a child’s “I can.” And the ripple keeps going: kids who learn to swim grow up to raise kids who swim. One scholarship can change the trajectory of an entire family line.

A full 12-week scholarship costs $350–$450, and covers everything one child needs to go from fearful to confident in the water. Can’t sponsor a full scholarship? Any amount brings us closer to the next child on our list.

Help Hope Floats break the cycle, one child, one family, one generation at a time.

🌊 Donate today. Keep a family above water for good.

08/07/2026

We love seeing our scholarship swimmers thriving! 💙🌊🥰
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08/06/2026

Every kid deserves to feel safe in the water. 💙

Drowning is one of the leading causes of accidental death for young children — and the kids most at risk are often the ones whose families can’t afford swim lessons. It’s not a matter of talent or interest. It’s a matter of access.

You can change that.

A donation to Hope Floats Foundation gives a child in our community the chance to learn a skill that could save their life — and to discover the pure joy of splashing, floating, and swimming with confidence.

$40 covers one lesson. $480 covers a full scholarship for one child.

No child should be kept out of the water simply because of their zip code or their family’s income. Your gift helps close that gap — one lesson, one kid, one life at a time.

👉 Donate today: https://givebutter.com/hopefloatsfoundation or LINK IN BIO

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Back to School shopping?You can help us by voting for us in your Target Circle app! 🎯 Click on My Target🎯 Click on Circ...
07/30/2026

Back to School shopping?

You can help us by voting for us in your Target Circle app!

🎯 Click on My Target
🎯 Click on Circle Benefits (top right)
🎯 Scroll down to Community Support Votes
🎯 Scroll to Hope Floats Foundation and cast the votes you have available (shown at the top of the page)

Or click this link - https://www.target.com/circle/community-voting

It's that EASY!

Not seeing Hope Floats as an option? You can temporarily change your store location to one of the following areas and use your votes there!

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07/28/2026

📢 Heads up, Hope Floats partners and scholarship families!

We've discovered an email delivery issue — thanks to a recent Salesforce and email security change, some of our messages may now be landing in your SPAM/junk folder instead of your inbox.

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Be sure to mark us as "not spam" or add us to your contacts so you don't miss important updates! 💙

Our team is working hard with Salesforce to fix this ASAP. Thanks for your patience and support! 🌊

It’s World Health Organization World Drowning Prevention Day Anyone can drown, no one should.300,000 lives – most of the...
07/25/2026

It’s World Health Organization World Drowning Prevention Day
Anyone can drown, no one should.

300,000 lives – most of them children 💔

That’s the annual toll of drowning worldwide.

We can change this story. We know how. We just need to act.

🏠 At home: Physical barriers and constant supervision.

🌊 On the water: Lifejackets and sobriety.

🚨 In emergencies: Skills like CPR and weather awareness.

🤝 In the community: Sharing knowledge and organizing.

It takes all of us.

Find your part: https://www.who.int/campaigns/world-drowning-prevention-day/2026

07/24/2026

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