Category Archives: Organizations

Being the bridge – Basketball Diplomacy

We don’t have to solve world problems all by ourselves. However, we can make contributions, no matter how small, to the collective effort that can help overcome those problems. I…

Peace and Sport – UIPM celebrate International Day of Peace

Press release. On the International Day of Peace, Peace and Sport is committed to deploying new sports in fragile countries. First example: Biathle. Monaco, 21 September 2009 – As the…

Golf and Fund Raising

The Chronicle of Philanthropy has an article on the efforts of the PGA Tour to do even more in the area of charity fundraising and to let more people know…

NBA Legends Summit

This is one helluva of an alumni association. Congratulations to the guys for putting on the Summit and for providing ongoing support to its members and the game of basketball….

Int'l Platform on Sport & Dev – weekly digest

You can join The Platform’s Facebook group at http://www.facebook.com/home.php#/group.php?gid=20674774578&ref=ts. The weekly digest is but one of the great ways to stay in touch with sport and development. You can read…

KaBoom! – A week to play and rally support

KaBoom! has been around for almost 15 years and captures the spirit of play, development and entrepreneurship unlike most others. Its model of community and business partnerships, and the sharing…

And the winner is…the Ukraine

The championship we are talking about is the 2009 Homeless World Cup.This great 8-day event in Milan culminated with the Ukraine topping Portugal 5-4. Congratulations to all of the players…

Table tennis – a vehicle to promote peace & understanding…and killer topspin

My brother and I spent many hours in the basement in feverish ping-pong battle. Topspin, slices, drop shots, we did it all. 🙂 SportandDev.org wrote about the International Table Tennis…

YouTube channel for UN Sports and Development

There will be no Paris or Kim, Jon or Kate, or anything you would see on Entertainment Tonight or Access Hollywood (thank god). Rather,there will be videos highlighting the work…

Busy, in a good way, summer for Peres Center for Peace

The Peres Center for Peace “is an independent, non-profit, non-partisan, non-governmental organization founded in 1996 by President of Israel and Nobel Peace Prize Laureate Mr. Shimon Peres, with the aim of…