Category Archives: Organizations

Seeing the beauty of sports…in person

As reported by AP, “Boris Johnson, the mayor of London, has secured funding to give away 125,000 free tickets to local school children for the 2012 Olympics. Johnson says the deal…

National Diabetes Awareness Month/year

We have written about athletes and diabetes before (March 8, 2010 and Aug. 22, 2009). We are now coming to the end of National Diabetes Awareness Month. As we also…

New sportanddev weekly newsletter

Our good friends at sportanddev (International Platform on Sport & Development) have put out its weekly update. Please sign up to receive the newsletter on Facebook. Also, don’t forget about…

Rudy Awards 2010 – great kids and great efforts are back

Earlier this year we wrote about the winner of Trusted Sports’ High School Rudy Awards.  The Awards “honor student-athletes who most completely represent the ‘Rudy’ on their team…someone whose contribution…

Peace and Sport Image of the Year Award – The IndoPak Express

We are very happy to highlight here Peace and Sport’s Image of the Year Award. Our friends at Peace and Sport partnered with SportelMonaco and Getty Images to once again…

sportanddev.org updates

Please visit the following links to updates from our good friends at sportanddev. Remember to also sign up for their newsletter. Updates from the International Platform on Sport and Development…

A simply stated mission: Water for People (Blog Action Day 2010)

We covered PlayPumps International (PPI) last year. We loved the concept and its initial implementation. Its great works continues and we wanted to cover again the organization in light of…

Blog Action Day 2010, powered by change.org

The good folks at Change.org have once again organized a collective effort, Blog Action Day 2010. The topic this year is Water. We also will be participating on October 15th….

What to do during recess? Play and Learn!

Recess is defined as a “temporary withdrawal or cessation from the usual work or activity.” During our school years, recess was seen as a time to free our minds and…

Sports and Social Responsibility, an amazing effort

I am pretty set on having the World Cup in the U.S. in 2022. May seem like a long way off but the decision to pick a host is much…