Category Archives: Social Responsibility

World AIDS Day – let’s team up today and everyday

As we have said about special months dedicated to specific causes, we feel the same about “special” days. We applaud these campaigns for their ability to raise awareness. We also…

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…

Playing tennis with a purpose, just like Venus and Serena

There are many casualties of war. Yes, that is an understatement. There are too many losses of life and ways of life. We have seen both with returning soldiers in…

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…

A Michael Jordan assist at just the right time.

Michael Jordan has trouble not being in the public eye. His recent comments about Kobe Bryant and about scoring 100 points in a game? Not needed. But there was something…

How to deal with sports concussions? Donate heart, soul, and mind

We have written about the health of athletes, with a focus on the conditions of professional football players, and thankfully, the effort to prevent concussions and deal with the post-playing…

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….

When corporate social responsibility becomes your own

Should corporate social responsibility be required? Should corporations have to prove they are doing it and prove its effectiveness? Or should the corporation, much like an individual, decide on its…