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The Recovery We Need Now

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The budgets of the more than 10,000 municipal park and recreation departments with sports programs have been decimated due to COVID-19, as have those of YMCAs and other community providers. On July 15, Project Play releases Active Communities Do Better infographics that youth sports advocates everywhere can use to lobby mayors and governors to limit cuts – and recruit support from policymakers and corporations to help them through this challenging time. We ask: how can leaders best stabilize essential providers over the next 12-18 months? Also, what can be done to support low-income families and the children of the unemployed?

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PANELISTS

KATHLEEN TULLIE
Director of Social Responsibility
Reebok International

 

DAVE DUPONT
Co-Founder & CEO
TeamSnap

 

RECAP

 

Youth sports leaders: Sector must unite during COVID-19 on value of play

The fragmented youth sports industry must seek partnerships – even with competitors – and collectively communicate with one voice about the value of physical activity, according to several nonprofit and corporate leaders.

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ADDITIONAL READING

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How Sports Can Help Rebuild America

Read Tom Farrey’s vision of what the recovery could achieve

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Make Youth Sports Great Again

Renata Simril writes about the need to increase access to youth sports

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The Path Forward

Project Play’s webinar on the potential to rebuild the grassroots sports system

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Sep 16

What do local organizations need to make community-based sport the dominant model through age 12? And how can other sectors support and collaborate with them most effectively?

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Aug 26

Fundamental flaws in the governance model of youth sports have been laid bare by COVID-19. More accountability can help address many challenges in our sports delivery system, but how best to achieve that?

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Aug 5

The federal government is mulling whether to spend trillions on infrastructure to help get more people back to work. If that bill were to include recreation infrastructure, what would we want? And how to support the maintenance and programs that come with more places to play?

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Jul 15

The budgets of the more than 10,000 municipal park and recreation departments with sports programs have been decimated, as have those of YMCAs, schools and other community providers. How can leaders best stabilize these essential providers over the next 12-18 months?

 
 
Later Event: August 5
The Rebuild We Need Now