Every Kid Deserves a Chance to Play
Up2Us is leading a national movement to advance sports as a tool for addressing the critical issues facign yourth in this nation, including childhood obesity, academic failure and anti-social behavior. Up2Us accomplishes this by supporting a national network of nearly 500 member organizations operating in all fifty states. Togteher, these organizations serve 20 million youth through both … [Read more...]
By Jesse Seiden, Research Associate for Trusted Sports Foundation, 25 October 2010 For decades, the research conducted on the benefits of physical activity has led to one clear-cut, obvious conclusion: it’s good for us. More specifically, physical activity has been shown to have a positive impact on not only our general health, but also on our psychological well-being and social … [Read more...]
By Jesse Seiden, 18 December 2010 In recent years, our nation’s economy has taken some pretty severe hits. Whether it is in the housing market, the realm of healthcare, or the dramatic cuts in education budgets, we are all feeling the negative effects of such an economic collapse. Education, for many reasons has, perhaps, suffered the largest consequences of these financial deficits. Sports … [Read more...]
By Alex Wolff I spent the better part of a year working on this week's SI package on the burgeoning movement to use sport as a tool to save the world. The assignment was by turns astonishing, humbling and inspiring. But the deeper I delved into the cause of Sport for Development and Peace, or SDP, the more persistently I was struck by the United States' lack of leadership in the … [Read more...]
