Global Youth Sport for Development Initiative

Mission

Our mission is accomplished with core partners across the world who strive to meet the spiritual, health, and physical needs of international children & youth through sport, curricular, and mentoring programs customized to meet the distinct needs of each partner site. 

Our secondary mission is to provide research and development of programs and processes such that they are evidence-based, participant-grounded, replicable, and sustainable. In other words, leveraging the partnership between scholars, participants, and partners, we strive to know what works and why it works, so we can implement both broadly and appropriately in a wide range of contexts.

Goals

(1) Promote holistic development in age and contextually appropriate ways.

(2) Advance the method and research of sport for development funding.

(3) Advance sport for development programming.

(4) Integrate sport science, developmental, and sport management expertise and theory to advance sport, community, and human development outcomes.