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AED, formerly the Academy for Educational Development (1961 to 2011), was a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization that focused on education, health and economic development for the "least advantaged in the United States and developing countries throughout the world." [4] AED operated more than 250 programs in the United States and in 150 other ...
The Cintas Scholastic Grant Program was developed to increase awareness of the benefits of an AED program among those in school buildings, including parent teacher associations, athletic directors ...
The Sports Grants program is an annual open grant competition for U.S.-based, non-profit organizations that work with sport and non-elite youth athletes, domestically and internationally. The grants support programs which address any of the following themes: Sport for Social Change, Sport and Health, and Sport and Disability. [15]
The Wayne Area Sports Hall of Fame, along with the Wayne County Community Foundation, is once again offering $500 grants to local youth sports groups.
The term "sports-based youth development program" was coined in 2006 at a summit sponsored by Harvard University's Program in Education, Afterschool and Resiliency (PEAR), Positive Learning Using Sports (PLUS), and the Vail Leadership Institute. SBYD programs were defined as programs that “use a particular sport… to facilitate learning and ...
Honesdale Friends of Football, Wallenpaupack Area Youth Lacrosse, and Western Wayne's 'Cat Pack Games each received a $500 grant from the Hall of Fame.
Many programs in the five most powerful conferences — the Atlantic Coast, Big 10, Big Twelve, Pac-12 and Southeastern — have agreed to pay out $1 million or more in additional aid each year to finance scholarships. Colleges have rarely dropped sports or moved to a lower, less-expensive, NCAA level in response to added financial pressures.
The American Youth Soccer Organization (AYSO) is one of the two main national organizations in youth soccer in the United States for children aged 4 through 19. [7] AYSO was established as a non-profit soccer organization in Torrance (a suburb of Los Angeles, California) at Jefferson Elementary School in 1964 [8] with nine teams.