Goals4Leaders Campaign - PowerPoint PPT Presentation

Title: Goals4Leaders Campaign


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Coaches across Continents
Harvard Soccer Initiative
Goals4Leaders Campaign
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Introduction To Coaches across Continents
Coaches across Continents is a not-for-profit
organization that uses soccer as a vehicle to
change individual lives and support communities
in developing regions

• Approach
• Coaches Across Continents collaborates with local
  organizations that demonstrate a shared vision of
  the value of using soccer to develop life and
  leadership skills for children
• Experienced soccer educators train local coaches
  and work with local children providing a cascade
  model where coaches coach coaches to educate
  children, ultimately creating community leaders
• Accomplishments
• After the success of programs in India, South
  Africa and Tanzania, organizations from 73
  countries requested the services of Coaches
  across Continents
• In 2009 additional programs will be started in
  Malawi, Uganda and Zambia

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The Hat-Trick Initiative Our Successful Model
The Hat-Trick Initiative provides a framework for
a sustainable education model that develops a new
generation of leaders and educators in developing
communities

• The Model
• A 3 year interactive coaching and education model
  delivers our curriculum to local teachers,
  coaches, and community leaders
• Year 1 Expert soccer educators are sent to
  train local coaches and leaders (first 3 years)
• Year 2 Local educators and coaches travel
  abroad to receive continued training that they
  can bring back to their communities
• Year 3 CaC provides equipment, ongoing
  mentorship and an online curriculum that ensures
  each programs sustainability
• The Investment
• 81K funds each 3 - year program and the ongoing
  maintenance of the program
• Expenses include travel, accommodation,
  equipment, on-line mentoring, fields, and school
  supplies

• The Results
• Each program impacts 33K children and 330 local
  teachers/coaches
• These numbers continue to grow as a function of
  the programs continual sustainable growth

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Goals4Leaders with Harvard Soccer
The Harvard Soccer Initiative will kick-off
fundraising efforts with the Goals4Leaders
campaign beginning April 2009

• Goals4Leaders Family, friends, and fans, as well
  as alumni networks and local businesses and
  corporations, will pledge donations for every
  goal scored by the Harvard soccer team in 2009
• Our goals is to raise 1000 per goal, all of
  which will contribute directly to building 5
  Harvard Hat-Trick Initiative programs
• All supporters will become part of the Harvard
  Soccer Team's Goals4Leaders community, a network
  of individuals and organizations invested in both
  the on-field success of the Harvard Crimson as
  well as supporting positive, sustainable change
  in Africa

• Goals4Leaders will support current
  student-athletes, as well as alumni, who will
  travel to Hat-Trick Initiative programs in Africa
  as soccer educators
• As a pioneer in the field of social
  responsibility, the Harvard Soccer Initiative
  will act as a model for other teams and
  organizations to use soccer as a vehicle for
  social change

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Goals4Leaders Community Why Get Involved?
The Goals4Leaders campaign will create a dynamic
community of Harvard Soccer supporters and
sponsors invested in the teams success on and
off the field
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Next Steps How to Get Involved
Support your team and generate social change with
Coaches across Continents
Athlete Participation

• Student athletes from the Harvard soccer teams
  will be chosen as Goals4Leaders leaders to help
  Coaches across Continents staff strategize
  marketing, publicity, and fundraising efforts
• A strategic committee of Coaches across
  Continents, Goals4Leaders leaders, and
  dedicated members of the Harvard soccer community
  will lead corporate and alumni fundraising
  efforts
• Each 'leader' will be in charge of 4-8 fellow
  athletes who will all help raise pledged
  donations together as fundraising groups
• The men's and women's team will compete to raise
  the most total money
• Student athletes will be chosen to travel to the
  Hat-Trick Initiative programs in Africa as
  official soccer coach educators

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A Winning Partnership
The Harvard Soccer Initiative and the
Goals4Leaders campaign will energize the entire
Harvard Soccer community and foster sustainable
development in Africa

• The G4L campaign will provide leadership and
  service opportunities for Harvard Soccer student
  athletes
• CaC will help send Harvard athletes and alumni to
  Hat-Trick communities, giving them the
  opportunity to experience and contribute to
  grassroots change in developing regions
• G4L will increase public awareness surrounding
  the Harvard soccer program, exciting fans, family
  and friends and galvanizing an enthusiastic
  alumni network
• The Harvard Soccer Initiative will create 5
  Hat-Trick communities, sustainable programs that
  together will affect the lives of over 400,000
  children in the next 5 years
• Harvards proactive model of success will act as
  a template, allowing other universities and
  athletic programs to help grow the movement of
  creating social change through soccer

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Testimonials
Coaches across Continents and The Harvard Soccer
Initiative has strong support from key individuals

• Having worked in education and football my whole
  life, I am delighted to lend my full support to
  Coaches across Continents and their educational
  training curriculum. Thousands of young lives
  will be changed in the most fun-filled and
  innovative ways.
• - Seamus Malin, Harvard 62 and Board of
  Directors, Coaches across Continents

• The mens program is excited about using our
  team to help children all around the world. We
  are united in our efforts on and off the field
  and know that every goal that we score will be
  important.
• - Jamie Clark, Head Soccer Coach

• Our team loves the idea of helping women all
  around the world and developing the Soccer for
  Female Empowerment program with Coaches across
  Continents. We are going to do everything we can
  to score goals and make a real social impact.
• - Katie Shields, Harvard 03 and Asst. Coach

• Thanks so much for the support from Harvard
  players, staff, fans and alums.
• - Nick Gates 91, Global Strategist, Coaches
  Across Continents