Initiatives
Capacity Building
The Why
Many youth sports organizations (YSO’s) that serve an important programmatic role in Western New York lack the capacity to implement larger, more sustained initiatives.
There’s a need to develop strategies to provide support to youth sports organizations that seek to play a larger role in the youth sports ecosystem but cannot do so in a sustainable manner.
Explore Capacity Building Opportunities
What We Are Doing
Our Level Up capacity building initiative will provide grants to promote advanced capacity building skills in local youth sports organizations’ leadership. The program does so by:
- Providing a mechanism through which YSO leaders can learn to evaluate and address their own capacity deficiencies
- Creating a process that allows for identifying local consulting and training programs that can effectively operate within the youth sports environment
- Implementing a procedure to assess YSO needs, match them with an approved vendor, offer supplemental support funding and evaluate the performance of that collaboration
Sports for all, play for life model
Broad access leads to sustained participating
Squaring the pyramid creates athletes for life, at all levels
Up to age 12, focus on ability, confidence, and desire to be active
Today’s broken model
Pushed aside are many kids who want to play
Over-served athletes burnout, injuries
Average or below average ability
Youth with disabilities
Late bloomers
Low-income home
Clinically obese or overweight
Contact us
If you are a youth sports organization interested in collaborative work to facilitate capacity building, please email inquiries to ProjectPlayWNY@CFGB.org.