Category Archives: Organizations

Award 3, recognize 30, educate thousands more – The Rudy Awards

I just learned about a new award given out by an organization of which, I again, am just becoming aware. This is what makes publishing this blog so much fun….

NFLPA and Native American health – a shared vision

The NFL Players Association and Johns Hopkins Center for American Indian Health recently co-hosted the 14th Annual Evening With the Stars Gala to benefit Native Vision, an initiative that serves…

5th "anniversary" of Tsunami Disaster

I actually don’t like the word “anniversary” when it comes to acknowledging such a terrible event, as anniversary should be associated with celebratory events. But in this case, the use…

Supporting play…from birth

We have highlighted the efforts of KaBoom! before. The organization is a leader in creating opportunities for children to play and pushing discussion about the need for kids to be…

Reminder – Red Carpet Soiree

The United Way’s Young Leaders Council is having its 2nd Annual Red Carpet Soiree: A night of fun and philanthropy tonight, Dec. 12, in New York City, honoring Beverly Bond,…

Sports. Business. Philanthropy.

Sports. Business. Philanthropy. These are three driving forces behind the Sports Doing Good blog and The Kaur Group. So when I had the chance to attend an event entitled “Sports,…

Football/Soccer for hope…and fun

FIFA’s partnership with streetfootballworld – Football for Hope – is a great example of a major sports property and non-profit coming together to leverage their respective strengths to drive discussion…

The powerful desire to compete

Below is a video highlighting the efforts of first-time Paralympian Torben Bröer and his efforts to make it to the 2008 Games in Beijing. It is one of many great…

Nike, Bono, the World Cup and some red laces – is there a problem with that?

John Kim publishes the very insightful and very timely “The World Cup and CSR“ blog. With the official draw taking place a few days ago, I think we are officially…

Autism and sport

Over the past year we have seen an increase in the resources dedicated to creating widespread awareness  about autism. Autism Speaks, Doug Flutie Foundation for Autism and Athletes Against Autism…