This 100-mile bike ride winds through Northeast Pennsylvania, and was voted the “Most Challenging Century Ride” by the League of American Bicycles. This ride raises funds for the ThinkBig Pediatric Cancer Support Fund and the Big Brothers Big Sisters of the Twin Tiers. The ride has been in existence for twenty-two years, and Colgan Foundation has been the gold sponsor for more than fourteen years.

The mission of Harlem Lacrosse is to provide opportunities, relationships, and experiences that activate the skills and traits to put youth on a path to success as students, athletes, and citizens. Harlem Lacrosse actively recruits special education students and students identified by school administrators as most vulnerable to academic decline and school dropout. They serve more than 1,000 students nationwide across nineteen programs in five cities.

Based in Melbourne, Australia, Mercantile has a proud history of rowing on the Yarra River and beyond. The club was founded in 1880 with the aim of increasing the health and recreation of Melbourne’s society via the sport of rowing. Mercantile’s members learn excellence in and service to the sport of rowing, and promote the its benefits of health, respect, and friendship. Mercantile’s motto is: “Every stroke we take, we take to win.” Colgan Foundation is a Partner and major supporter of Mercantile.

Pegasus Rowing is a coach-funded, high-performance rowing program for grades 8–12 based in King of Prussia, Pennsylvania. The Pegasus mission is to develop exceptional individuals through rowing. Founded by coach Franck Kiser, Pegasus’s long-term vision is a self-sustaining program, able to field internationally competitive boats, representing the full diversity and best attributes of the Philadelphia population. Colgan Foundation is aligned with these efforts towards athletics and inclusion, and in 2020 donated its dock on the Lower Schuylkill River no longer in use by UPenn to Pegasus.

Henley Women’s Regatta is the premier regatta for women in the United Kingdom. Each year more than 1,500 rowers travel from all over the UK and the world to compete in this prestigious event. Held on the rowing world’s most iconic stretch of the River Thames, HWR offers exciting side-by-side match racing for a wide range of competitors, from Juniors to University and Club to International level. Colgan Foundation is a significant sponsor, providing for Henley Women’s updated and expanded website and donating ongoing assistance.

Steamboat Springs Winter Sports Club (SSWSC) is a non-profit organization providing sports and youth development programming for approximately 1,000 athletes every year, from five to twenty-five years gold. Athletes compete on alpine ski, snowboard racing, freestyle ski, and Nordic ski teams. Serving tens of thousands of kids for more than a century—including members of the Colgan family—SSWSC is one of the oldest and most successful winter sports clubs in North America. Colgan Foundation is pleased to sponsor SSWSC’s jacket program, helping to pay for new athlete and coach jackets. When new jackets are provided every three years, the used jackets are donated to children in need in the US and overseas. Colgan Foundation also helps support the club’s operating costs and greatest needs.

In 2015, Colgan Foundation established the National Championship rowing trophy in memory of rowing legend Charles P. Colgan. The trophy is awarded each year at the US Rowing National Championships to the team with the Most Overall Team Points.

Sean Colgan (C’77) and his father, Charles P. Colgan (C ’50) were proud members of the University of Pennsylvania rowing teams. The Colgan Foundation is a longtime supporter of and major benefactor of Penn Rowing. Our most recent contribution was the donation of new boats.

The Colgan family has a longstanding history with Vesper Boat Club since 1944, when Charles P. Colgan became a member. Kevin, Sean, and Brian Colgan became members in 1968, and Charles and Brian were both past presidents of VBC. Vesper’s mission is to develop highly competitive rowers at all levels by providing its diverse community of members with premier rowing programs and first-class facilities, coaches, and equipment. The club motto, “ALL TOGETHER,” symbolizes an organization open to all people who want to row, and promotes character development and physical fitness through the challenge of the sport. Founded in 1865 as the Washington Barge Club, Vesper Boat Club has always been central to the Philadelphia rowing story. Colgan Foundation provides ongoing operational support to this historic club.

Rowing NZ is the national sports organization for all rowing in New Zealand, as recognized by Sport New Zealand, High Performance Sport New Zealand (HPSNZ), the New Zealand Olympic Committee (NZOC) and the New Zealand Paralympic Committee (NZPC), representing the interests of school, university, club, para and indoor rowing. The primary objective of Rowing NZ is to foster and promote the sport of rowing in New Zealand in all its forms and classifications. Colgan Foundation has been one of its top two sponsors since 2015. It provides funding and support to the men’s and women’s national teams and their new High Performance Center.