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Soccer and Education, The Global Team, Youth Soccer

Nov 282012

Happy Holidays from the Global Team

2012 has been an exciting year for the Global Team. Having started just over 12 months ago, I am happy to report the joint efforts of our volunteers, partners and supports has already led to the first signs of growth and impact. From our continued partnership with GOALSHaiti to our newest partnership with ARISE Foundation Uganda, we are excited about the work happening on the ground around our mission.

However, this is the season not only to reflect but to look forward. In 2013, we are planning to complete a translation of our environmental curriculum into Haitian Creole, provide a 3-day training for our Ugandan coaches and expand our online tools and resources. With your support of our current initiatives, we can ensure that our youth receive access to educational outcomes and structured learning experiences centered around the sport of soccer.

Looking to give a meaningful gift this holiday season? Please consider donating a gift to the Global Team and our international programs. Looking to support locally? Starting in 2013, through the support of you and our volunteers , we are preparing to start a locally-based program here in the Pacific Northwest. At the Global Team, we recognize that local kids need as much support as kids in Haiti or Uganda, and this new effort is a result of that recognition.

All these developments are exciting but the success of the Global Team is linked to your kindness and support. A donation from you today will provide education, hope and support to our children and coaches. Today, as we begin a season of thanksgiving and holiday celebrations, I ask you to make a life-changing tax-deductible donation to the Global Team. Your gifts go a long way in ensuring we can continue to provide our players primary education through soccer.

Please join with us this holiday season by giving the gift of education and soccer to our players around the world. Donate today to the Scoring for Education Campaign.

Thank you,

Heather Turney

goalWA highlights the Global Team!

Soccer and Education, The Global Team

Jul 162012

the Global Team founded locally, working globally through soccer

“Our vision is for every child to have access to a creative education that leverages the power of soccer to realize these dreams, on and off the field.”

goalWA.net invites a new locally-driven world soccer charity to tell us more about themselves. On August 11-12 at Tacoma’s Pacific Sports Center the Global Team will hold an indoor soccer tournament fundraiser. See below.

Founded in 2011, the Global Team uses the sport of soccer to advance primary education for youth around the world. Through our soccer-based model, we achieve our mission of ‘providing universal access to primary education through the sport of soccer’ by partnering with local organizations, currently focused in Haiti and Uganda.

Through partnership, the Global Team provides education through soccer curriculum, teacher/coach training and organizational development focusing to environment, math, health and creative writing/speaking.

To read the full article, click here: the Global Team and goalWA

Play With Purpose Cup

Soccer and Education, The Global Team

Jul 092012

INDOOR FUNDRAISING TOURNAMENT

Join us August 11th and 12th at the Pacific Sports Center in Tacoma for a fundraising indoor soccer tournament to benefit education through soccer in Haiti and Uganda. 100% of the funds will go directly to the Global Team. Pacific Sports Center: 2645 So. 80th St Tacoma, WA 98409

Details: 3 games per team, 25 minute games, 6-12 players per team, prizes for the top teams!

The registration link will take you to Pacific Sports Center. To register your team, follow the steps below.

1. Create ‘New Customer Registration’
2. Sign In to My Sam and click ‘Register’
3. Click ‘Adult’
4. Select yourself
5. Select ‘Play With Purpose Cup’
6. Register!

If you have any questions, contact Heather Turney, Founder and Executive Director at 253.221.5348 or heather@theGlobalTeam.org

To learn more about our partners this tournament will support, read here about ARISE Foundation Uganda and G.O.A.L.S Haiti

ARISE Foundation Uganda

The Global Team

Jul 062012

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE:

Contact: Heather Turney

Contact e-mail: heather@theglobalteam.org

SEATTLE, WA, 7/2/12 — the Global Team announces partnership with ARISE Foundation Uganda

the Global Team is proud to announce an exciting partnership with ARISE Foundation Uganda, a non-profit organization providing life skills and staff training to at-risk youth and the adults who care for them.

A pilot program is to be launched Fall 2012 with plans of reaching 15 coaches and 100 Ugandan youth, with the future goal of expanding services to the total ARISE youth population of over 500 youth by the Spring/Summer of 2013. In preparation for the launch this fall, the Global Team will provide coach’s training on the Global Team curriculum methods, non-formal education and education through soccer techniques. ARISE Foundation will also receive Coaching Manuals, Player Handbooks and Educational textbooks for use in the program.

To kickoff this partnership, the Global Team is organizing the ‘Play with Purpose Cup,’ a fundraising tournament to be held August 11,12th at the Pacific Sports Complex in Tacoma, WA. More details on this fundraiser will be released shortly.

the Global Team is a fiscally-sponsored 501 (c)(3) nonprofit organization that provides primary education through the sport of soccer. Enhanced by the power of the global game, the Global Team employs a typical soccer model to provide capacity development, education + soccer curriculum and mentor training to our local partners throughout the world. Our vision is for every child to have access to a creative education through soccer in supportive, sustainable communities.

“All children deserve access to an inspiring educational experience,” says Heather Turney, Founder/Director of the Global Team. “We at the Global Team are excited to embark on this international partnership with ARISE Foundation Uganda and to achieve our mutual goal of provide youth with the skills to reach their highest potential.”

”On behalf of ARISE Foundation Uganda, I am overjoyed to be partnering with the Global Team,” says Jude Nyanzi, Founder/ARISE Foundation Uganda. “With this partnership, we are confident that the Global Team’s education through soccer program will have a great impact to the youth of Uganda and increase the continued development and success of our country.”

For more information on the Global Team, please visit our website at: www.theglobalteam.org.

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Title IX and Women in Sport

The Global Team

Jun 232012

As I sit in Scotland providing a training for trainers on education through sport for the International Sport and Culture Association I find it particularly interesting that T]today is the 40th anniversary of Title IX in my home country. For me, who grew up without having a hinderance in playing and yet working within the context for a male dominated field, soccer, Title IX provides an interesting concept to the issue of females in sport. Continue reading »

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