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When asked to describe a word that he associates with his work with Up2Us Sports and America SCORES, Coach Gari Harvey paused for a moment before responding, “inspiring.”
How AmeriCorps Has Helped Us #GetThingsDone
How Sports Helped Me Adjust to Life in America and Led Me to Coaching
INFOGRAPHIC: The Up2Us Sports, California Volunteers, and AmeriCorps Partnership Explained
Up2Us Coach Program Evaluation Shows Positive Impact
Monumental Sports & Entertainment Foundation Provides Up2Us Coach for DC Youth
The 2017-2018 Call For Partnership is Live!
Up2Us Sports Celebrates National Coaches Day
Up2Us Sports is proud to celebrate coaches today, and every day. Over the past six years, we have provided 16,000 coaches and youth sport administrators with the training they need to make a lasting impact. We believe that a trained coach can help youth in under-resourced communities succeed on and off the field.
Coach Hemon: Using Soccer to Help Young Refugees
If you know Hemon, working anywhere other than Baltimore was never an option; he sees far too much of himself in these children to go elsewhere. Hemon was born in a refugee camp in Nepal to Bhutanese parents. In 2008, he arrived in Baltimore as a twelve-year-old who couldn’t speak English, but was determined to succeed in his new country.
The Humana Foundation Awards Up2Us Sports Grants in New Orleans and Tampa Bay
Up2Us Sports Receives $2.5 Million in National and State AmeriCorps Funding
Through Up2Us Sports’ national coaching program, 350 AmeriCorps members will be trained to coach and mentor low-income youth to make better decisions, stay healthy, and reach their potential, through the power of sports. The $2.5 million in grants from the Corporation for National and Community Service (CNCS) will support AmeriCorps members nationally with added support in California, Florida, Illinois, Louisiana and Pennsylvania.
Marnisha Mintlow Has Been a Marine, a Teacher and Now as an Up2Us Sports coach, She Is ‘Super’
To the kids she coaches Marnisha goes exclusively by ‘Coach Super.’ The moniker doubling as a nickname and the perfect embodiment of her life and commitment to young people. Hearing Marnisha’s story, her nickname becomes less surprising. Born and raised in Dayton, Ohio she grew up in a religious family where both of her parents worked, she went to school, played little league baseball and other sports here and there.
