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Convene leaders, facilitate dialogue & inspire solutions to help sport serve the public interest. Home of Project Play.
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Project Play, the Sports & Society Program's signature initiative, develops, applies and shares knowledge to help build healthy communities through sports. We identify access and quality gaps in sport activities for youth and help organizations to fill them. Project Play connects the silos across the disjointed landscape of youth and school sports and develops systems-level solutions. Newsletter signup: as.pn/ppsubscribe.
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We know that football, soccer, basketball and baseball participation among children varies throughout the U.S. For the first time, The Aspen Institute's Project Play initiative has sought to quantify this by examining participation rates of four of the most popular sports for every U.S. community. Project Play partnered with The Kinetica Group, which applies predictive models to census and its own survey data to model detailed sports and recreation participation data down to the hyperlocal level. Kinetica uses the data in partnerships with national sports organizations in the U.S. and Australia like the U.S. Tennis Association. Project Play utilizes the dataset in our State of Play community reports. The models create unique datasets to understand sport and recreation behavior, interest and engagement across 84,000 small local areas (census tracts) in the U.S. Why is this useful? Sports organizations can identify program gaps and opportunities. Local leaders and advocates can identify sites for potential facilities. Grantmakers can sharpen their investment strategies. Researchers can analyze certain communities. All of this and more can happen by looking local. Check out participation maps by sport: https://lnkd.in/eJVaEfnb
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Washington D.C.’s passion for sports is one of its greatest strengths and can be leveraged to help children develop healthy, lifelong benefits through sports. The nation’s capital is also one of the most complex and politically daunting cities in the country, with an array of municipal, school, federal and private entities organizing and regulating sports with no civic mechanism to connect silos, balance competing interests and create shared solutions to shared problems. Keys to progress? Building an online youth sports directory. Growing investments around underserved populations. A better system to secure fields. More training of coaches. And the creation of a council – either sitting inside or outside of government – to focus on growing quality sports opportunities for all kids. Those are among the recommendations in “State of Play Washington D.C.,” a report released today by The Aspen Institute in partnership with Under Armour and with contributions by Fight For Children. With the release of the report, Under Armour announced plans to invest in D.C. youth sports opportunities, using its Project Rampart program from Baltimore as a blueprint. Read full report: https://lnkd.in/eHTMEHd7 Learn more about the project: https://lnkd.in/eND-Q65p
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“The pandemic seems to have intensified the pressures around youth sports,” said Jordan Blazo, co-author of our youth sports parent study and associate professor of kinesiology at Louisiana Tech. “Instead of a reset, many families doubled down, trying to make up for lost time. This has further exacerbated the financial divide, making it even harder for some kids to participate.” Story on the 46% increase in family costs on sports: https://lnkd.in/eD9PgX52 All results from the National Youth Sports Parent Survey: https://lnkd.in/en2_iWK4
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Participation in youth sports is getting more expensive – and there seems no end in sight. The average U.S. sports family spent $1,016 on their child’s primary sport in 2024, a 46% increase since 2019, according to The Aspen Institute's latest parent survey in partnership with Utah State University and Louisiana Tech University. That’s twice the rate of price inflations in the U.S. economy during the same period. Driving up the costs are higher spending on team registrations, travel and lodging for non-local play, and individual camps and private instructions to improve athletic skills, according to a survey of adults who have at least one child playing sports. Read the first of a series of stories about in the results in 2025 by Jon Solomon: https://lnkd.in/eD9PgX52 Read the full survey results: https://lnkd.in/en2_iWK4
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Learn more about the Anthropy Partners, LLC "Future of Play" Challenge coming to the #ProjectPlay Summit. Anthropy's Marques Colston and Brian Finegan sat down with Youth Inc.'s Greg Olsen to issue the challenge to tech entrepreneurs and funders to find innovative ways to improve youth sports.
During the Super Bowl for Youth Inc., Greg Olsen sat down with Marques Colston and Brian Finegan of The Anthropy Constructive, a bold, VC-backed initiative rallying the world’s top minds to reshape youth sports. They discussed the urgent challenges facing young athletes today and how innovation can increase participation and accessibility. If you are a brand or foundation looking to sponsor or be involved in the Bay Area, US or the Switzerland, EU Challenge please contact the Future of Play team at [email protected] or visit https://lnkd.in/gCjptzy9. Watch now: https://lnkd.in/gsXzcB6M
The Anthropy Future of Play Challenge
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Awesome time catching up with Brian Finegan and Marques Colston at the Super Bowl to talk the Anthropy Future of Play Challenge! Check it out below and find out how you can get involved ?? Aspen Institute Sports & Society Anthropy Partners, LLC Youth Inc.
During the Super Bowl for Youth Inc., Greg Olsen sat down with Marques Colston and Brian Finegan of The Anthropy Constructive, a bold, VC-backed initiative rallying the world’s top minds to reshape youth sports. They discussed the urgent challenges facing young athletes today and how innovation can increase participation and accessibility. If you are a brand or foundation looking to sponsor or be involved in the Bay Area, US or the Switzerland, EU Challenge please contact the Future of Play team at [email protected] or visit https://lnkd.in/gCjptzy9. Watch now: https://lnkd.in/gsXzcB6M
The Anthropy Future of Play Challenge
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Coming to #ProjectPlay Summit 2025: The Future of Play Challenge! Anthropy Partners, LLC invites innovators to rethink business models, technologies, and solutions that are informed by and benefit kids, parents, and coaches. Want a chance to make your pitch live at the Summit? Learn more about the Challenge and submit your application at https://lnkd.in/ey9nZd4J.
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#ThrowbackThursday! Last week we spoke with Luka Don?i?, Sydney Colson and basketball experts on the future of the game in the U.S. Watch the replay: https://lnkd.in/eGgPD_q7 #futureofsports
Future of Sports: Luka Don?i? on Future of Basketball
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The National Recreation and Park Association has released a new Youth Sports Framework. As part of the national #63X30 roundtable's effort to raise youth sports participation to 63% of young people ages 6-17 by the end of the decade, NRPA aims to grow participation in rec sports 10% by 2029. https://lnkd.in/evpEUv_z