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Read the latest from our Founder & CEO, Paul Caccamo, on how sports coaches might be the caring adults that young people need right now to help them through this time of isolation and anxiety.
Update from Up2Us Sports’ Founder & CEO
In this time of uncertainty, we are reminded of the important role that Up2Us Coaches and national service can play in addressing issues of community health and safety. Up2Us Sports is well aware that protecting our communities at this moment means minimizing exposure and that this will inevitably disrupt our programs. The health and well-being of our coaches and the youth they serve is of utmost importance.
Say #ThanksCoach And Play It Forward
Read the latest from our Founder & CEO, Paul Caccamo, on how you can help play it forward this giving season through our #ThanksCoach campaign. Learn what your donation means to the coaches and kids we work with and how you can help Up2Us Sports continue our work into 2020, our 10th Anniversary year!
New Ways to Break Old Cycles
Happy 9th Anniversary, Up2Us Sports!
Up2Us Sports Launches #ThanksCoach
MUST READ: Caccamo Featured in New Book on SBYD, Youth Sports in America
The New Face of National Service: Coaches
Paul Caccamo: A Vision for a National Mentoring Movement
Up2Us Sports From the Very Beginning
Though it’s roots begin in the late 1980’s after Paul Caccamo graduated from Georgetown, Up2Us Sports didn’t begin to take shape until 2008. To get the full scope of our origin story, we had one of our coaches interview Paul for a StoryCorps segment on the history of Up2Us Sports and where he sees the organization going in the future.
Up2Us Sports Turns Seven!
Will you make a donation to help support a veteran this holiday season?
That’s probably an interesting opening line for an ask from an organization that is focused on using sports to inspire at-risk youth. But just ask Coach Ruby. As a Corporal in the Marine Corps, Ruby served our nation through three separate deployments to Iraq. When she returned, she searched for a way to translate her service and love-of-country abroad to service and love-of-country here at home.
