For the last 10 years, Team Asa has adopted a group home for Christmas through The Centers for Habilitation. Our Team Asa team looks forward to meeting with the guys on 47th Place year after year - we love seeing our friends and getting to celebrate the holidays with them! This year, we met our [...]
Thanks to the generous contributions of our bears, we are able to support The Centers for Habilitation in Tempe with a variety of social activities and fun experiences throughout the year. We finished off the year by bringing Santa to the TCH holiday party! He helped hand out gifts and interacted with the clients while [...]
Team Asa loves being able to support Jordan's Social Group! Jordan loves having fun with friends in the community and has grown his group over the years with monthly gatherings. In November, Team Asa partnered with our friends at Hammer & Stain who set us up for a fun day of crafts! We had pizza, [...]
Thanks to a successful 2025 Polar Bear Plunge, Team Asa was able to donate new threads to the Tempe Special Olympics Cheer Squad! These amazing cheerleaders stepped out to show their style at the annual Tempe Play Day in April. The fresh new looks help the team compete looking and feeling their best!
PRE-PLUNGE PARTY — Friday, Jan. 10, 2025 You don't want to miss the PRE-PLUNGE PARTY! Polar Bears and Teddy Bears are able to register on-site, pick-up their awesome long-sleeve T-shirt and bid on some awesome silent auction and raffle prizes or purchase a Plunge & Go item. Please join us from 4:30-7 p.m. on Friday, [...]
Team Asa is excited to host a private screening of The Peanut Butter Falcon for our friends from Tempe Adaptive Recreation programs and their families. The Peanut Butter Falcon is an empowering movie with themes of kindness and empathy. It's also powerful from a representation standpoint, as it centers on a character with Down syndrome (Zack Gottsagen). [...]
Thanks to all of the Bears who supported the 2017 Polar Bear Plunge and/or the inaugural Pre-Plunge Party, we exceeded our fundraising goal of $10,000. Thank you, Bears! Because of that generosity, we were able to create LOTS of Best-Day-Ever Days for some very deserving people. Here's a quick review of some of our 2017 highlights. An Accessible Swing for TCH Our [...]
We had such an amazing time at our 7th Annual Polar Bear Plunge! The Polar Bear Plunge is Team Asa's annual fundraiser and helps provide best-day-ever-days throughout the year. More than 75 polar bears jumped into the freezing cold pool this year! And for an extra-freezing time, the pool water had yet to be heated [...]
Meet CeCe. She is grinning eat-to-ear because she received her very own iPad! Earlier this year, Team Asa found out that CeCe needed a better way to communicate with others while she was at school. She needed an iPad to help develop skills and interact with her teachers and peers. Because of the overwhelming [...]
Thanks to the help of our bears, Team Asa was able to celebrate the holidays spreading a little joy! Through our wonderful friends at the Centers for Habilitation we had the opportunity to meet Eugene, Joe, John, Larry & Randy and spend a wonderful Saturday together. The Centers for Habilitation is an awesome organization that [...]
