Crown Roots Foundation
Expanding opportunity, worldview, and potential for Pocono Mountain youth. Basketball is the door — academics, mentorship, and character are what's on the other side.
The Work Is the Reward.
Expanding opportunity, worldview, and potential for Pocono Mountain youth. Basketball is the door — academics, mentorship, and character are what's on the other side.
The Work Is the Reward.
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The financial aid picture is more accessible than most Pocono families realize. Start here.
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Pocono Mountain has the athletes, the scholars, and the future leaders. What it doesn't have is access: to development, to mentorship, and to the information that shows kids how big the world really is. Families here make decisions about college and careers from what they can see locally, not from everything that is open to them.
Crown Roots Foundation exists to change that through three programs. Each one closes a different part of the gap, and each one depends on funding to reach more families.
Our media platform for the Pocono youth community: rosters, scores, spotlights, and stories that show families what is happening here and what is possible.
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Our direct-service program. Basketball brings kids through the door. Academic support, mentorship, and campus visits are what they find inside, regardless of what a family can pay.
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The software we build and own. In/Root shows any family what a college would really cost them. Out/Come is where our staff build a plan with each student.
Explore I/O →League fees, equipment, and campus visit travel — funded so kids can participate regardless of family income. We remove barriers so you can focus on the work.
College guidance, tuition reality, and funded campus visits where students meet directly with academic departments — not just tour guides. We show them where they’ll actually spend their time.
Streamlining coaching resources, admin best practices, and success pathways so organizations can focus on what matters: the kids. Coaches clinics, shared support, and spotlights of success.