Category Archives: Sports and Social Responsibility

Nike’s sustainability efforts – how is it doing?

A couple weeks ago, we profiled a report published by Nike reflecting on the company’s success in achieving it’s environmental and social responsibility goals, and identifying the work still to…

Down to the Sweet 60 – Street Soccer USA

Our friends at Street Soccer USA have moved onto the final round of Change.org’s “Ideas for Change in America” competition.* This is a great accomplishment. From January – February 2010,…

NBA in Africa and vice versa

There have been some great players from Africa who have graced the hardwood of the NBA and many college arenas. Two that come to mind, of course, are Hakeem  Olajuwon…

Lessons for life taken from the field of play

While the previous story about Binghamton illustrates what happens when athletes, coaches, administrators and communities forget the organic values of sports, the Doc Wayne Athletic League reminds us why we…

A Family of Acronyms working together

Last week the U.S. Fund for UNICEF sent out a press release that expressed its gratitude to so many from the world of sports who have given so generously to…

A billion bicycles

I have always found it a bit annoying when anyone, especially those in the business world, would tout the China or India markets as so monolithic and homogeneous that the…

Two conferences – 2-week notice

March 8-10, 2010 2010 International Conference on Sport and Society Conference will be held at the Univ. of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada – March 8 – 10, 2010 Global Sports…

All the way from British Columbia

And it has nothing to do with the Olympics! We came across a story that more captures the work that so many of you already do than anything brand new…

Sport For Social Change

We are highlighting a competition that everyone should want to support in some way.  Hosted by Change.org, “Ideas for Change in America” is: “a crowd-sourcing competition that empowers citizens to…

The First Lady’s commitment to reducing the “play deficit” – Part II

And when it comes to getting kids more active, it seems that Mrs. Obama will have the support of the nation’s school principals. Sponsored by The National Association of Elementary…