Program areas at Women's Sports Foundation
Community impact: engagement & retention of girls in Sports is a top priority. We provide tools and technical assistance to support coaches, parents, and community leaders to strengthen recruitment, engagement & quality of programming for girls. Our Sports 4 life program that helps increase participation & retention of black, african-american, hispanic and native american girls in developmental youth Sports programs. Our digital platform - we play interactive - is a resource for coaches to help girls discover joy from playing Sports. Travel and training fund provides women athletes with potential to be elite with funding to reduce their financial obstacles. Athlete ambassador program engages elite athletes as role models to inspire girls.
Research: serves as a springboard for our work. Wsf has maintained a comprehensive portfolio of signature research projects for more than 30 years. Our evidence-based public interest research on girls and women in Sports and physical activity anchors all of our policy outreach and fuels our impact initiatives. It fosters public discourse on the vital importance of sport participation for the health and well-being of girls, leadership opportunities for women, and deib in Sports. Data combined with experiences on the ground help to identify best practices and inform our programming. Wsf conducts rigorous evaluations to assess impact against clearly defined benchmarks.
Advocacy: wsf has been serving as the collective voice for girls and women since its inception. Protecting title ix, promoting gender equity, fighting for equal pay, increased media coverage and investment in Women's Sports, and empowering others to take action are the cornerstones of our work. We collaborate with partners to advocate at the national, state, and grassroots levels. Wsf is particularly dedicated to the needs of girls in underserved communities - including bipoc girls, lgbtq+ youth, girls with disabilities, and those living in low socioeconomic communities with limited resources. We work to advance equity, inclusion, safety and access.