Address
520 8th Avenue
New York, NY 10018
Website
www.americascores.org
Description
America SCORES is a national youth development organization that works in under-resourced communities, partnering with urban schools to provide a free, high quality, team-based program that integrates soccer, poetry, and service learning. Because soccer is an international and inclusive sport we use it as a tool to develop fitness, sportsmanship and leadership skills among diverse students. We then bring the students, as teams, into the classroom to discover their creative voices using poetry, a universal form of art. Those transformational experiences build students’ confidence to use their individual and collective energies to bring about change in their communities through service-learning projects. .
America SCORES has programs in Atlanta, Chicago, Cleveland, Dallas, Denver, Los Angeles, Milwaukee, New England, New York, Portland, San Francisco, Seattle, and St. Louis, Washington DC and West Contra Costa.
Category
Children & Youth, Community, Volunteerism & Philanthropy, Education – K-12, Sports & Recreation