For Members

For too long, many Sports-Based Youth development Programs were working isolated from each other.  By uniting leaders of grassroots youth sports programs with practitioners, researchers, and intermediaries, Up2Us leverages individual successes to build public awareness about the value of sports in youth development and increase resources available in the field.

Up2Us is open to all programs that use sports under the framework of “positive youth development.” Many times, this takes the form of sports programs and practitioners. But organizations that support and provide services to sports programs as well as universities and researchers that focus on youth development are also members of Up2Us and more than encouraged to join.

Up2Us currently offers a variety of benefits to our members.

• Referrals of volunteers interested in helping your program

• Access to an online library of resources, research, and best practices

• Participation in national taskforces

• Newsletter updates of available resources in the field

• Subsidized staff and coaches through the AmeriCorps Coach Across America program

• Increased attention and publicity through coordinated media campaigns

• Invitations to attend Regional and National Conferences to meet and network with leaders in the field