Sports Award: Inspiring Community Change
About the Award
From 2015 to 2022, the RWJF Sport Award recognized sports teams, athletes, and community-based organizations that use sport to make communities healthier and more equitable places to live, learn, work, and play.
2022 Sports Award Winners
America SCORES
America SCORES provides free after-school and summer programs that build teams and support healthy whole child development through a unique combination of soccer, poetry, and service learning.
New Heights
New Heights uses basketball as a “hook” to engage youth, help them access high quality educational opportunities, and instill in them the values and life skills that will prepare them for success in life beyond sports.
Team Prime Time
Team Prime Time’s program, Prime Time Games, is a full-inclusion, peer-mentor sports program wherein students coach and play alongside children with developmental disabilities.
Camp Shriver at UMass Boston
Camp Shriver at UMass Boston is a free, inclusive summer camp for children with and without disabilities so that all children can play, learn, and interact in meaningful ways with their peers.
Skate Like a Girl
Skate Like a Girl empowers skaters, especially young women and/or trans people, to grow into strong, confident leaders who promote and implement social equity.
Wendy Hilliard Foundation
Wendy Hilliard Foundation is empowering the lives of young people from underserved communities by improving physical and emotional health through the sport of gymnastics.
Downtown Boxing Gym
Downtown Boxing Gym is a free after-school academic and athletic program that provides education, athletics, mentorship and intervention, empowering Detroit students to be positive and productive members of society.
Snider Hockey
Snider Hockey is a nationally acclaimed non-profit that uses the sport of hockey to educate and empower under-resourced youth of Philadelphia to prosper in the game of life.
Harlem Lacrosse
Harlem Lacrosse provides opportunities, relationships, and experiences that activate the skills and traits to put youth on a path to success as students, athletes, and citizens
Students Run Philly Style
Students Run Philly Style transforms students’ lives through running and mentorship, supporting Philadelphia youth facing high levels of adversity.
Past Sport Award Winners
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