As a winner of the 2008 Nike/Ashoka Sports for a Better World Collaborative Competition, GRS was named one of the three most innovative, effective, and sustainable organizations in the Sports for Development Field (out of 382 organizations entered from 69 countries).
Other recognition includes MySpace Impact Awards, CNN Newsnight, CBS Early Show, Regis and Kely, A Closer Walk – documentary. Awards include: Draper Richards Foundation, Annie Dyson Child Advocacy Award (American Academy of Pediatrics), the Dartmouth Martin Luther King Jr. Social Justice Award, and the Nkosi Johnson Award (International Association of Physicians in AIDS Care).
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