U.S. Soccer Foundation 2011 Grants

The U.S. Soccer Foundation’s grants support projects throughout the U.S. that focus on keeping children in vulnerable communities active, healthy, and safe from the dangers of the streets.

The 2011 grants cycle will focus on projects and programs that develop players, coaches, and referees in economically disadvantaged urban areas encompassing populations of 50,000 or more. The foundation is especially interested in organizations that incorporate a youth development element such as anti-violence, anti-drugs, healthy lifestyles, etc. into their soccer programs.

The foundation's annual grants cycle includes the following grant types.

Program Grants will be awarded for player and team equipment from Kwik Goal and Eurosport (shoes, shin guards, uniforms, traveling goals, balls, cones, etc.); travel costs for games and practice (excludes expenses for professional games); facility rental costs; registration costs; training fees for coaches; and training fees for referees.

Field Grants will be awarded for irrigation products from Hunter Irrigation, sports lighting from Musco Sports Lighting, field maintenance equipment from the Toro Company, and modular surfaces from Sport Court.

Footprint Fields (Synthetic Field) Grants will be awarded for the installation of a synthetic field surface from FieldTurf.

In addition to some other eligibility requirements, aApplicants must be a not-for-profit organization, school, municipality, college or university, public school, or sovereign tribal nation.

Deadline: The application opens October 1, 2010 and closes at October 29, 2010 @ 5PM

The foundation is holding Q & A calls in August to answer questions and prepare applications for the upcoming grant cycle.

Link to The complete RFP lives at the program site.