Sport for Social Development is a method of bringing about social change through the use of sports. In the United States this is commonly referred to as Sports-Based Youth Development . Sport refers to the physical activity and development in any individual, health, social , and economic benefits. Sport is used as a tool for peace and development. The programs use sport to help children learn lifelong skills as an incentive for the children to improve their scholarship. Sport is used as a tool to reach personal and community goals. Most organizations utilizing this method are geared towards underprivileged children and teenagers in urban areas. Promote youth development Since the advent of modern Olympics in 1896, athletes have shown that sports enable people to come together in an effort to bring about global peace and to share a desire for self-improvement. Non-profit sports programs aiming to educate through similar means are part of an up-and-coming movement. However, through sport, children learn sportsmanship and other life skills. Youth sport can help them grow towards positive development and good relationships with others. Sport is a tool utilized to get young people involved in their communities. Positive peer group relationships are also encouraged through coaching as well as the physical activity, which makes sport particularly beneficial to children with disorders such as ADHD. This leads to youth feeling integrated with other young people. Through being involved in sports youth can gain self-esteem when they are enjoying the experience of taking part in a sport. Sports help them gain lifelong skills and want to do better in the classroom as well. Involvement in sports have been related to one having better cognitive functioning as well as higher grades and test scores, satisfaction in school, engagement in school, aspirations for college, and lower dropout rates. Also, according to the Official Website of the Olympic Movement, being surrounded by a supportive group of people with similar goals, as in playing a sport, “can alleviate the negative effects of poverty.” Non-profit organizations are founded in urban areas affected by poverty to help marginalized children by creating an environment to unite people across gender, race, religion, or socioeconomic background. Organizations in America Up2Us Sports Up2Us, doing business as Up2Us Sports, is a sport-based youth development non-profit organization founded in 2010 dedicated to supporting young people through sport. Through their national coach program, Up2Us identifies, trains and supports coaches, many of whom serve as AmeriCorps members, to work with young people in underserved communities around the country. Their training teaches strategies for coaches to work with young people who have dealt with trauma. Pure Game Pure Game is a non-profit organization. Pure Game is an organization that supports children as young as six and as old as twenty who are underprivileged, increasing their self-esteem and forming new relationships through sports. Through its organization, Pure Game serves children who have endured traumatic situations and who have experienced acts of violence in the neighborhoods in which they live. Pure Game currently serves 64 school partners, operating 92 programs within those partnerships. Pure game currently operates in 15 different districts which include, 43 Elementary School Partners, 14 Middle School Partners, 5 High School Partners, 2 Specialty School Partners. Pure game currently operates in 15 different districts. Laureus Sport for Good Foundation This global organization supports projects through funding, educational training, as well as research and evaluation tools. They also connect their projects from around the world to encourage collaboration. Laureus Sport for Good was founded in 2000, inspired be Nelson Mandela's infamous speech at the first Laureus World Sports Awards in 2000, in which he declared that "Sport has the power to change the world." Through its projects, the Foundation uses sport as the means to tackle problems such as HIV/AIDS, substance abuse, crime, social exclusion, landmines awareness, violence, discrimination and health problems such as obesity. Laureus currently supports over 150 projects in around 40 countries. Laureus has national foundations in the United States, Argentina, South Africa, Germany, Switzerland, Spain, Italy , and the Netherlands. Their website states they have raised "over €100 million since 2000". The Foundation has the support of over 180 Laureus Ambassadors and 60 Laureus World Sport Academy Members . The project breaks down barriers between disabled and non-disabled communities through group activities, instills confidence, and allows disabled youth to nurture their inclusion into mainstream society. Subsequently, discriminatory mindsets on disability are challenged as IMAGE members start getting accepted as well-educated, productive, and responsible role models in the isolated communities where the project operates. Furthermore, the participants develop skill sets through their work experience with IMAGE, which they can include on their CVs – a concept that they ’re made aware of through the IMAGE Employability Workshops. Sports PLUS Global Positive Learning Using Sports is an international global organization that gives educational training to communities and programs through sports and promoting positive human development and social change. Since 1984, Sports PLUS has reached over five thousand children and trained two thousand coaches and educators in camps and after-school programs throughout the United States, Cyprus, Canada , and Hong Kong. Their PLUS model has twelve essential steps that communities can use. The steps develop respectful relationships and an understanding of how children learn in groups. Coaches Across Continents Coaches Across Continents is a global leader in the sport for social impact movement. They partner with local organizations to implement their award-winning ' Hat-Trick Initiative ' based on their Chance to Choice philosophy and Self-Directed Learning Methodology that focuses on local social issues such as : female empowerment including gender equity ; conflict prevention including social inclusion ; health and wellness including HIV behavior change, other life skills and FUN . In 2016  4,817 coaches participated in CAC training and received Sport for Social Impact certifications. In addition, nearly 1.5 Million children were directly impacted through our 1,698 community partners. In 2016  Coaches Across Continents worked with 90 communities in 28 countries, developing local community leaders on sport for development skills to positively impact and educate their youth. Hoops 4 Hope Hoops 4 Hope is a non-profit organization in South Africa that uses basketball to help children from underserved areas become proactive leaders in their individual lives and in their communities. It has been in existence for over 15 years. Hoops 4 Hope  in conjunction with its sister organization Soccer 4 Hope  has given 10,000 children the opportunity to participate in sports. Peace Players International Peace Players International has been working for almost a decade "to unite, educate and inspire young people in divided communities through basketball . "  There are 52,000 children involved in South Africa, Northern Ireland, Israel and the West Bank , and Cyprus. Magic Bus India Foundation Magic Bus India Foundation is an organisation that works with 300,000 children and 8,000 volunteers using a sport for development curriculum the organisation has developed over 15 years of working in India's slums and villages. The programme begins when a child is 7 years old, follows their journey through childhood and aims to create confident young people, ready for jobs or higher education opportunities. The organisation foster young adults who they call Community Youth Leaders to deliver the programme and to become role models and mentors for the URL Both the young adults and children come from the same communities, so that a close and constant relationship is built. The young adults are trained to deliver the activity-based curricula we have pioneered, to bring about changes in behaviours and practices. They work to promote gender equality, access to education and health services, as well as developing a child's social and emotional skills. Their other key role is to work with the child’s support structure: the parents, the community at large and local institutions to ensure the change we make results in social, emotional and economic well-being. The curriculum has a grounding in academic research and is based on classical learning theories. Sporting activities and games are structured into each session to make them fun and appealing to children. Sessions are designed to represent real-life situations and challenges so children are able to relate these back to their daily lives. URL Right to Play Right to Play is an international organization that has various programs in 15 countries across Africa, Asia , the Middle East , and has national offices in Canada, Germany, Norway, the Netherlands, Switzerland, the United Kingdom , and the United States. The organization was founded in 1992 and has since created a global network of support and commitment to underprivileged children by Olympic athletes and charitable organizations such as UNICEF. Raising funds, advocating for play base learning , and building awareness is some of the things the national offices do for Right To Play. The goal for Right To Play is to teach kids in need through educational games. Moving the Goalposts Kilifi Moving the Goalposts (MTG) Kilifi is a girls  football for development organization that was founded in 2002. Moving the Goalposts works annual with more than 4000 girls between the ages of 9 – 25 years in rural communities in Kilifi County, Kenya  on issues such as school drop out, teenage pregnancies, early marriages and gender equality in Coastal rural Kenya. MTG's interventions are mobilization of girls and young women in football leagues and tournaments, leadership development for girls, peer education on sexual reproductive health and rights, advocacy within communities and cooperation with parents and stakeholders, and educational support and economic empowerment.
Sport for social development is a method of bringing about social change through the use of sports. In the United States this is commonly referred to as sports-based youth development . Sport refers to the physical activity and development in any individual, health, social and economic benefits. Sport is used as a tool for peace and development. The programs use sport to help children learn lifelong skills as an incentive for the children to improve their scholarship. Sport is used as a tool to reach personal and community goals. Most organizations utilizing this method are geared towards underprivileged children and teenagers in urban areas. Promote youth development Since the advent of modern Olympics in 1896, athletes have shown that sports enable people to come together in an effort to bring about global peace and to share a desire for self-improvement. Non-profit sports programs aiming to educate through similar means are part of an up-and-coming movement. However, through sport, children learn sportsmanship and other life skills. Youth sport can help them grow towards positive development and good relationships with others. Sport is a tool utilized to get young people involved in their communities. Positive peer group relationships are also encouraged through coaching as well as the physical activity, which makes sport particularly beneficial to children with disorders such as ADHD. This leads to youth feeling integrated with other young people. Through being involved in sports youth can gain self-esteem when they are enjoying the experience of taking part in a sport. Sports help them gain lifelong skills and want to do better in the classroom as well. Involvement in sports have been related to one having better cognitive functioning as well as higher grades and test scores, satisfaction in school, engagement in school, aspirations for college, and lower dropout rates. Also, according to the Official Website of the Olympic Movement, being surrounded by a supportive group of people with similar goals, as in playing a sport, “can alleviate the negative effects of poverty.” Non-profit organizations are founded in urban areas affected by poverty to help marginalized children by creating an environment to unite people across gender, race, religion, or socioeconomic background. Organizations in America Up2Us Sports Up2Us, doing business as Up2Us Sports, is a sport-based youth development non-profit organization founded in 2010 dedicated to supporting young people through sport. Through their national coach program, Up2Us identifies, trains and supports coaches, many of whom serve as AmeriCorps members, to work with young people in underserved communities around the country. Their training teaches strategies for coaches to work with young people who have dealt with trauma. Pure Game Pure Game is a non-profit organization. Pure Game is an organization that supports children as young as six and as old as twenty who are underprivileged, increasing their self-esteem and forming new relationships through sports. Through its organization, Pure Game serves children who have endured traumatic situations and who have experienced acts of violence in the neighborhoods in which they live. Pure Game currently serves 64 school partners, operating 92 programs within those partnerships. Pure game currently operates in 15 different districts which include, 43 Elementary School Partners, 14 Middle School Partners, 5 High School Partners, 2 Specialty School Partners. Pure game currently operates in 15 different districts. Laureus Sport for Good Foundation This global organization supports projects through funding, educational training, as well as research and evaluation tools. They also connect their projects from around the world to encourage collaboration. Laureus Sport for Good was founded in 2000, inspired be Nelson Mandela's infamous speech at the first Laureus World Sports Awards in 2000, in which he declared that "Sport has the power to change the world." Through its projects, the Foundation uses sport as the means to tackle problems such as HIV/AIDS, substance abuse, crime, social exclusion, landmines awareness, violence, discrimination and health problems such as obesity. Laureus currently supports over 150 projects in around 40 countries. Laureus has national foundations in the United States, Argentina, South Africa, Germany, Switzerland, Spain, Italy and the Netherlands. Its website states it has raised "over €100 million since 2000". The foundation has the support of over 180 Laureus Ambassadors and 60 Laureus World Sport Academy members . The project breaks down barriers between disabled and non-disabled communities through group activities, instills confidence, and allows disabled youth to nurture their inclusion into mainstream society. Subsequently, discriminatory mindsets on disability are challenged as IMAGE members start getting accepted as well-educated, productive, and responsible role models in the isolated communities where the project operates. Furthermore, the participants develop skill sets through their work experience with IMAGE, which they can include on their CVs – a concept that they are made aware of through the IMAGE Employability Workshops. Sports PLUS Global Positive Learning Using Sports is an international global organization that gives educational training to communities and programs through sports and promoting positive human development and social change. Since 1984, Sports PLUS has reached over five thousand children and trained two thousand coaches and educators in camps and after-school programs throughout the United States, Cyprus, Canada and Hong Kong. Its PLUS model has twelve essential steps that communities can use. The steps develop respectful relationships and an understanding of how children learn in groups. Coaches Across Continents Coaches Across Continents is a global leader in the sport for social impact movement. They partner with local organizations to implement their award-winning " Hat-Trick Initiative " based on their Chance to Choice philosophy and self-directed learning methodology that focuses on local social issues such as female empowerment including gender equity , conflict prevention including social inclusion , health and wellness including HIV behavior change, other life skills and fun . In 2016 , 4,817 coaches participated in CAC training and received Sport for Social Impact certifications. In addition, nearly 1.5 million children were directly impacted through its 1,698 community partners. In 2016 , Coaches Across Continents worked with 90 communities in 28 countries, developing local community leaders on sport for development skills to positively impact and educate their youth. Hoops 4 Hope Hoops 4 Hope is a non-profit organization in South Africa that uses basketball to help children from underserved areas become proactive leaders in their individual lives and in their communities. It has been in existence for over 15 years. Hoops 4 Hope , in conjunction with its sister organization Soccer 4 Hope , has given 10,000 children the opportunity to participate in sports. Peace Players International Peace Players International has been working for almost a decade "to unite, educate and inspire young people in divided communities through basketball " . There are 52,000 children involved in South Africa, Northern Ireland, Israel and the West Bank and Cyprus. Magic Bus India Foundation Magic Bus India Foundation is an organization that works with 300,000 children and 8,000 volunteers using a sport for development curriculum the organisation has developed over 15 years of working in India's slums and villages. The programme begins when a child is 7 years old, follows its journey through childhood and aims to create confident young people, ready for jobs or higher education opportunities. The organisation fosters young adults who they call Community Youth Leaders to deliver the programme and to become role models and mentors for the URL Both the young adults and children come from the same communities, so that a close and constant relationship is built. The young adults are trained to deliver the activity-based curricula we have pioneered, to bring about changes in behaviours and practices. They work to promote gender equality, access to education and health services, as well as developing a child's social and emotional skills. Their other key role is to work with the child’s support structure: the parents, the community at large and local institutions to ensure the change we make results in social, emotional and economic well-being. The curriculum has a grounding in academic research and is based on classical learning theories. Sporting activities and games are structured into each session to make them fun and appealing to children. Sessions are designed to represent real-life situations and challenges so children are able to relate these back to their daily URL Right to Play Right to Play is an international organization that has various programs in 15 countries across Africa, Asia and the Middle East with national offices in Canada, Germany, Norway, the Netherlands, Switzerland, the United Kingdom and the United States. It was founded in 1992 and has since created a global network of support and commitment to underprivileged children by Olympic athletes and charitable organizations such as UNICEF. Raising funds, advocating for play base learning and building awareness is some of the things the national offices do for Right To Play. The goal for Right To Play is to teach children in need through educational games. Moving the Goalposts Kilifi Moving the Goalposts (MTG) Kilifi is a girls ' football for development organization that was founded in 2002. It works annual with more than 4,000 girls between the ages of 9 and 25 years in rural communities in Kilifi County, Kenya , on issues such as school drop out, teenage pregnancies, early marriages and gender equality in coastal rural Kenya. MTG's interventions are mobilization of girls and young women in football leagues and tournaments, leadership development for girls, peer education on sexual reproductive health and rights, advocacy within communities and co-operation with parents and stakeholders, and educational support and economic empowerment.
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