What is Swim Free?
Since its inception, NYC Swim has been committed to supporting and expanding public learn-to-swim programs as well as raising public awareness of the waters that surround New York by supporting efforts to clean and protect them. However, over time, the growing popularity of the events and the work involved in making them successful was overwhelming the operation and growth of the charitable arm of the organization. Enter Swim Free. Swim Free is a new non-profit organization dedicated to the health improvement of children and adults through swim, and its goals and activities are closely aligned to those carried out by NYC Swim in the past. This new organization is completely separate from NYC Swim, with its own board of directors and staff, and has the advantage of being able to fundraise not only through NYC Swim events, but also through other prestigious events like the TD Bank Five Boro Bike Tour. As NYC Swim’s preferred charity for the 2010 season, Swim Free will receive a portion o
