Implementing Partners
By partnering with existing organizations on the ground through our “Implementing Partners” program Grassroot Soccer is able to expand the reach of our impact.
GRS Wins “How is Socialwok helping you?” Contest
Grassroot Soccer recently won the “How is Socialwok helping you?” contest for the innovative use of Socialwok and Google Apps for external collaboration and project management.
The following is an interview with GRS employee Taylor Downs, explaining how GRS uses Socialwok. To read the original article on Socialwok.com, click here.
How do you use [...]
Study Finds Football Programs are Successful in Preventing the Spread of HIV
A study of Grassroot Soccer and other football for development projects, conducted by Coxswain Social Investment as part of the Football For an HIV Free Generation Initiative, has found that football programs are uniquely successful in preventing the spread of HIV.
JOHANNESBURG, SOUTH AFRICA – A new study, released by Coxswain Social Investment, finds football [...]
GRS Port Elizabeth Features in Vanity Fair
The following is an article published 9 July, 2010 by Austin Merrill on VanityFair.com.
Perie Zabathempu has begun her weeks during the World Cup by reciting a Monday-morning story to groups of children in their early teens who live in the shantytowns that fringe Port Elizabeth, in South Africa. It’s a different group of kids each [...]
Port Elizabeth Hosts Freedom Day VCT Tournament
On Freedom Day, while most South Africans were celebrating the Freedom of their country, in Port Elizabeth, Grassroot Soccer was celebrating another type of freedom: the freedom to know your HIV status!
On Tuesday, April 27, Freedom Day, GRS Port Elizabeth hosted a Voluntary Counseling and Testing(VCT) Soccer tournament; a day of fun, soccer, and the [...]
GRS and J&J Host Girlz Got Skillz: A Young Women’s Summit on Health, Leadership, and Empowerment
From April 5-10, 2010, Grassroot Soccer partnered with Johnson & Johnson and the Academy for Educational Development to host Girlz Got Skillz, an inspired, cross-cultural exchange program promoting girls’ empowerment, leadership, and healthy decision-making. Bringing together 20 South African, 18 Namibian, and 11 American young women for a week in Kuils River, a community just [...]