Youth Soccer Programs

Posted by on October 31, 2011

U.S. Soccer Foundation Opens Annual Grant Cycle for Youth Soccer Programs
Deadline: November 18, 2011

The U.S. Soccer Foundation has opened its 2012 Annual Grant Cycle.

Since 1995, the foundation has awarded grants to more than six hundred organizations in the United States for projects designed to keep children in underserved communities active, healthy, and safe. For the 2012 grant program, the foundation’s highest priority is to support projects and programs that focus on soccer as a youth development tool in economically disadvantaged urban areas.

Funds will be awarded through Field Building Grants of up to $200,000 each for the installation of field surfaces, lighting, and irrigation, and Program Grants of up to $50,000 each for player and team equipment and general program/operational expenses.

To be eligible for a Field Building Grant, an applicant must apply on behalf of a program or project operating in the U.S.; be a 501(c)(3) not-for-profit organization, school, municipality, college or university, or sovereign tribal nation; apply as, or on behalf of, a field building project; and own or have a minimum of a ten-year land lease/land use agreement on the land where the field building project will take place. If applying for sports lighting, an applicant must have written authorization from the community where the field building project is located authorizing the addition of lights to the field(s).

Complete program guidelines and application materials are available at the U.S. Soccer Foundation Web site.

http://www.ussoccerfoundation.org/site/c.ipIQKXOvFoG/b.5482625/k.282F/2012_Annual_Grants_Program.htm