Coaches Across Continents Finalist At Beyond Sport
July 27, 2017. Coaches Across Continents was a finalist for the Beyond Sport Award for Global Impact of the Year in New York City. Representing CAC during the ceremony was Chief Executive Strategist Brian Suskiewicz. “We are extremely proud and humble to be recognized for our work in hundreds of communities on six continents, impacting thousands of coaches and millions of children annually to create legacies of change in their communities. We would like to thank our great corporate, governmental, foundation, and community partners. We also could not do the work that we do without our extremely dedicated staff, various advisory boards, supporting partners, and global citizens who all volunteer their time to create legacies around the world. Finally, I would like to thank all the tens of thousands of coaches and organizations that we have worked with who help to create social impact through sport in their communities, countries, and globally.”
Congratulations to Women Win for winning Global Impact of the Year at the 2017 Beyond Sport awards! We are proud to have a strong relationship with them having worked together to deliver sport for social development globally. Coaches Across Continents has previously won Beyond Sport Awards in the Best New Project (2009) and Corporate of the Year (2014) categories. This is the third Beyond Sport shortlist recognition for CAC since 2014.
Corporations, Governments, Foundations, and Community Based organizations from 95 countries have requested our Process Consultancy services to help them Design, Develop, and Implement sustainable Education Outside the Classroom Programs that use Sport for Social Impact.
Coaches Across Continents is the only global NGO providing year-round process consultancy resources. By using our Self-Directed Learning methodology, CAC mentors organizations through our Hat-Trick Initiative to create legacies of positive social change based on the UN Sustainable Development Goals.
Our work and expertise has been recognized through 21 major global awards, invitations for dozens of international presentations and keynote speeches annually, published methodology, and CSR work in 20 countries for corporations and foundations.
Our impact on six continents has allowed for hundreds of communities and tens of thousands of leaders to be able to create positive social change for millions of children.
Congratulations to CAC partner Grupo Internacional de Paz from Colombia!
Beyond Sport Award Shortlist
July 24, 2017. Coaches Across Continents is shortlisted for the Global Impact of the Year at the Beyond Sport Awards. CAC has previously won the Beyond Sport Awards in 2009 (Best New Project) and 2014 (Corporate of the Year), and was also shortlisted in 2015 for the UNICEF Safeguarding Children in Sport award. The announcement of the winners will be on Wednesday evening at the One World Observatory in NYC. In attendance will be Chief Executive Brian Suskiewicz and Sustainability Strategist Adam Burgess.
Corporations, Governments, Foundations, and Community Based organizations from 95 countries have requested our Process Consultancy services to help them Design, Develop, and Implement sustainable Education Outside the Classroom Programs that use Sport for Social Impact.
Coaches Across Continents is the only global NGO providing year-round process consultancy resources. By using our Self-Directed Learning methodology, CAC mentors organizations through our Hat-Trick Initiative to create legacies of positive social change based on the UN Sustainable Development Goals.
Our work and expertise has been recognized through 21 major global awards, invitations for dozens of international presentations and keynote speeches annually, published methodology, and CSR work in 20 countries for corporations and foundations.
Our impact on six continents has allowed for hundreds of communities and tens of thousands of leaders to be able to create positive social change for millions of children.
CAC on Beyond Sport Awards Shortlist
May 22nd 2017. We are delighted to announce that we have been shortlisted in the Global Impact of the Year Award category at the 2017 Beyond Sport awards! We are joining a prestigious list of nominees in this category which includes Women Win and Skateistan. As a global organization Coaches Across Continents is honored to be recognized in this way by Beyond Sport. In 2017 we have partnerships on six continents with a wide range of organizations, corporations, governments and communities who use sport to educate young people. Two of our partners, YFC Rurka Kalan in Punjab, India and Grupo Internacional de Paz in Colombia, are also shortlisted for the awards so we wish them congratulations.
This is the 5th time CAC has been shortlisted at a Beyond Sport awards. Of these nominations we have previously had two wins; ‘Best New Project‘ for the Hat-Trick Initiative in 2009 and ‘Corporate of the Year‘ for our partnership with Chevrolet in 2014. In 2015 we were also shortlisted for the UNICEF Safeguarding Children in Sport award.
We would like to thank Beyond Sport for the recognition and all of our partners, Community Impact Coaches, Global Citizens, advisory board, program participants and supporters for their ongoing support. Our success is your success! The 2017 Beyond Sport awards take place in New York from July 25th-27th. We are looking forward to attending and hope to see you there. For the full shortlist please go to this link.
CAC at Beyond Sport Awards in London
October 19, 2015. Coaches Across Continents founder Nick Gates is attending the Beyond Sport Summit & Awards 2015 in London, England. The event is from October 19-21, 2015, and includes a presentation by Nick on curriculum during the Beyond Rugby portion of the summit.
Coaches Across Continents has been shortlisted for the first annual UNICEF Safeguarding Children in Sport Award. Winners will be announced on October 20, 2015. CAC has previously been awarded the Beyond Sport Award for ‘Best New Project’ for our Hat-Trick Initiative in 2009 and for ‘Corporate of the Year‘ in 2014 for our partnership with Chevrolet. CAC would be the only third-time winner of these prestigious awards.
Every CAC educator in all of our community training’s participate in an extensive Child Protection and Child Rights course. This includes agreeing to protect every child in their care from emotional, verbal, physical and sexual abuse and learning how to educate children about their rights through a Child Rights sport for social impact curriculum based on the UN Rights of the Child. In 2014 and 2015 this course has educated 6,325 local coaches, teachers and community leaders who work with 514,603 youth in 30 countries.
Each year the Beyond Sport summit distinguishes itself as the preeminent conference for sport for social development demonstrating the power of sport to do good. The summit brings together some of the biggest names in professional sport, sport for development, sports media and business. In 2015 some of the nominees include The Big Issue for Australia, the Miami Heat, the England and Wales Cricket Board, SV Werder Bremen, BT Sport and New Balance. Our community partners CREATA (Kenya), HODI (Kenya) and Fundlife International (Philippines) are also nominated. We wish all of our partners the best of luck and want to thank Beyond Sport once again for the honor of being shortlisted in 2015.
CAC Shortlisted For Beyond Sport Awards
August 10th 2015. Coaches Across Continents is delighted to announce that we have been shortlisted at the illustrious Beyond Sport Awards 2015 in the UNICEF Safeguarding Children in Sport category. The nomination is CAC’s fourth at the Beyond Sport awards. Of these nominations we have two wins; ‘Best New Project‘ for the Hat-Trick Initiative in 2009 and ‘Corporate of the Year‘ for our partnership with Chevrolet in 2014.
Since 2012 CAC has been part of the International Safeguarding Children in Sport Working group alongside organizations such as UNICEF UK, UK Sport, Beyond Sport and Comic Relief. This group spent two years developing The International Safeguards for Children In Sport, a set of global standards to safeguard all children participating in sport. In 2014 CAC piloted our Child Rights policy which has since been used at every partner program we have run in the last 18 months.
Dr. Judith Gates, CAC Board Member and co-coordinator of this policy stated, ‘Through education and training in child protection strategies, Coaches Across Continents’ Safeguarding Children in Sport Initiative protects children, empowers coaches and changes cultural and community attitudes towards child abuse. The single biggest practical insight from CAC’s safeguarding initiative is the need to “bring policy to life.” This requires a pragmatic approach in which safeguarding policies are founded on local realities, but where there is knowledge of the pathway to be traveled and a clear understanding of the hallmarks of the optimal destination.’
On the nomination CAC’s Founder and Global Strategist Nick Gates said, ‘It is an honor to be shortlisted for a Beyond Sport award, the leader in global sport for development awards, for the 2nd year in a row. Safeguarding children is at the forefront of everything we have done over the past few years so to be recognized for this work is a testament to the passion and ability of our incredible staff, volunteers, board, community partners, program participants and supporters.’
In addition to our nomination, our global partners CREATA Kenya, Horn of Africa Development Initiative, Moving the Goalposts Kilifi and Football 4 Life Tacloban were also shortlisted for awards! Congratulations to all of them- the recognition is well deserved.
We would like to thank Beyond Sport for the nomination and for recognizing our work on child protection. The Beyond Sport awards 2015 take place in London on October 19th-21st so stay tuned!
Coaches Across Continents/Chevrolet Shortlisted for Beyond Sport Award
August 24th, 2014. Coaches Across Continents have been shortlisted for the 2014 Beyond Sport Awards. The prestigious global sport for social development awards selected the joint Coaches Across Continents and Chevrolet application in the highly competitive Corporate of the Year category. CAC’s work with Chevrolet in 2014 has been a resounding success with projects in Bandung, Indonesia and Chicago, USA completed earlier in the year. These projects have provided local partners Rumah Cemara and Beyond the Ball with the facilities, equipment and tools to create sustainable social change through soccer. The 3rd Chevrolet project of 2014 will take place in Hammanskraal, South Africa with Dreamfields in September.
CAC won the Beyond Sport Best New Project for the Hat-Trick Initiative in 2009 and since then we have maintained a close relationship with the conference and awards, attending the event every year and regularly leading high-level panels. This year the Beyond Sport Summit will take place in Johannesburg from October 28th-30th.
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