The Maven staff and members alike participate as well as organize various fundraising events for local and national charities. We also host workshops and continuing education events as well as participate in outside local charity events. Maven has always been deeply integrated into the local community and we pride ourselves in leading by example.
Maven has always been deeply connected and integrated into the local community and we pride ourselves on giving back and leading by example.
- Taylor Lee
Zimele USA is an organization that confronts the root causes of poverty by removing the barriers to self-sufficiency for women in the impoverished and often AIDS-stricken communities of South Africa’s KwaZulu-Natal province.
Since its founding in 2007, Zimele USA has funded programming in South Africa that has empowered over 10,000 women to become small-scale entrepreneurs who sustain independent livelihoods that not only benefit their families, but also their communities.
Through the years, Maven has continually supported the transformative efforts of Zimele USA.
Every Memorial Day weekend, Maven participates in the “Murph” challenge with other gyms across the country to honor Lt. Michael P. Murphy who died in a fierce firefight on 6/28/2005. He risked his own life to save his seal team. He was awarded the congressional Medal of Honor on 10/27/2007. A donation is made to the Murph Foundation from the funds raised.
Maven hosted a self defense workshop inviting Master Ace of the Filipino Kali Academy of Norwood. With a combined 40+ years of experience in martial arts as well as a background in training military and law enforcement, Master Ace and his wife Kris instructed various techniques needed to defend themselves in the event of a physical attack or assault.
