Category Archives: Events

FIFA's Hope for Football (and Football for Hope)

Our friends at sportanddev.com have created a page featuring projects built around or leveraging the 2010 World Cup. You can find that page by clicking here. (I was hoping there…

Beyond Sport Awards 2010 – Shortlisted Projects

Beyond Sport announced the projects that have been shortlisted in the 2010 Awards process. As reward for reaching this stage of the judging process, representatives from each project will be…

World Cup – let the games and golasos begin

Here are the Top 10 goals from the 2006 World Cup. I can’t wait to argue what will be selected as the top 10 of 2010. Let the World Cup…

ISDPA and the Power of Sport

The ISDPA (International Sport for Development and Peace Association) “brings together scholars, educators, practitioners, policymakers and advocates to advance scientific knowledge and practice with respect to the interdisciplinary field of…

It Takes a (Global) Village…of Hoopsters

I just learned of a very interesting event taking place tomorrow – sorry for the late notice! – that we want to highlight. The event marries three major themes –…

Football, Film, Fun, and Focus

I wanted to post a final note about this past week’s Kicking & Screening Soccer Film Festival held June 1-5 in New York City. Kudos goes to the founders of…

Kicking and Screening Film Festival – NYC – June 1-5

The flagship event on the Kicking & Screening calendar is HERE. We are very excited about what promises to be a fantastic festival–five days of films, panels and parties. I…

Week off…sort of

This week is kind of a week off. Haven’t really done that since we started Sports Doing Good. The thing is, we are not really going to be sitting around…

Soccer Aid – Remember, no hands…

And no fists! Next weekend at ManU’s Old Trafford stadium there will be a soccer/football game involving current and past star players, other great athletes, and a few celebrities thrown…

Kicking & Screening. Movies, soccer, oh my

Take two pastimes, soccer/futbol and the movies and you get the Kicking & Screening Film Festival. We have been fortunate to support the efforts of founders Rachel Markus and Greg…