The AAIB Flickr Gallery

Nothing expresses both the triumph and joy of an AAIB Celebrity Golf Invitational quite like the pictures. This year was one of the most beautiful and comfortable Columbus Day weekends at Galloway we could recall and everyone came out for our scholars. We had our largest attendance of supporters and celebrity boxers and sports figures.

Our photographer, Sonya Szotack, has captured every tournament since they began, as well as some of the last AAIB Boxeramas– the beloved boxer and boxing tribute banquets that preceded the golf tournaments. You can see all of her work, including her coverage of this past weekend’s event and awards dinner, on our new Flickr page.

We also started posting photos from the AAIB and Stephen B. Acunto’s history in the new gallery. While Sonya and the AAIB retain the rights to these images, everything is available for use by the press.

The AAIB Scholarships Indiegogo Campaign

The American Association for the Improvement of Boxing has teamed up with Indiegogo.com, the world’s largest global crowdfunding platform, to promote its 2015 Fundraising Campaign for AAIB Scholars. Crowdfunding is fundraising that collects donations from large crowds of individuals gathered through the Internet, mobile computers, and social media. Indiegogo is the largest international site that works with nonprofits like the AAIB.

You can visit or share the link: http://igg.me/at/aaiboxing.

The two-month online campaign started last night at midnight, will pick up speed around the halfway mark during the 2015 AAIB Golf Invitational over Columbus Day weekend, and will end on our founder Stephen B. Acunto’s 99th birthday on November 15th. Donation perks, including exclusive signed items and boxing memorabilia from Steve’s extensive archive, will change throughout. The page also features our new AAIB #BoxingChance video.

Get over to the site, pick up a perk for yourself, and then spread the word!

The AAIB #BoxingChance Video

Lights! Camera! Boxing! The American Association for the Improvement of Boxing’s new online presence is just the start of its 2015 Fundraising Campaign for AAIB Scholars. We also produced a video around the theme of this year’s campaign, “The Boxing Chance.” If a fighting chance is a possibility of success through struggle, a boxing chance is the likelihood of success through strategy.

By concentrating its energy on scholarships, the AAIB has reaffirmed its mission to improve the sport of boxing at the source of boxing’s future – young contenders. In this new video, filmed on location at Willis Avenue Gym in the South Bronx, young contenders and AAIB Scholars Walter Sarnoi and Susan Lizzette Jugo reflect on their unique stories and the boxing chances they were given, in their own words.

The #BoxingChance video is also available for viewing on the campaign's new Indiegogo crowdfunding site and here on the home page of aaib.org.